Nell Shipman hugs the cliff (at left) during the filming of a scene in "The Grub-Stake." Cinematographer Joseph B. Walker described the scene in his memoir, "The Light on Her Face" (1984): "Nell Shipman emotes, assistant cameraman Clif Maupin...
Actors Nell Shipman (as Faith Diggs), Lillian Leighton (as Dawson Kate), and George Berrell (as Malamute Mike), with a fourth unidentified actor, in a scene from "The Grub-Stake."
Nell Shipman (as Dreena) and Ralph Cochner (as Jim, the lumberjack), in a scene from The Light on Lookout, one of the short films Nell Shipman made at Lionhead Lodge on Priest Lake, Idaho.
Tickets; Shooting; Motion pictures; Public speaking;
Admission ticket from Robert W. Limbert's exhibition tours featuring his talents for imitating birds and animals, shooting a revolver, and showing films he made while exploring the Sawtooth Mountains. Limbert's appearance helped raise funds for the...
Tom Trusky (1944-2009), professor of English at Boise State University, examines a reel of film in his campus office, surrounded by Nell Shipman memorabilia. Trusky first became intrigued with the filmmaker in the early 1980s when he learned she...
Nell Shipman (center) with other actors in a scene from one of the early silent films in which she appeared, possbily one of the films from Vitagraph's Wolfville series (1918).
Nell Shipman (right) with two actors in a scene from one of the early silent films in which she appeared, possbily one of the films from Vitagraph's Wolfville series (1918).
Motion picture production & direction; Motion pictures; Bears;
W.H. Clune (right), the Los Angeles theater owner who was one of the financiers of "The Girl From God's Country," visiting the set with unidentified associates. They are greeting Nell Shipman's bear, Brownie. This was probably at Big Bear,...
The actor Walt Whitman (1859-1928), who appeared in more than sixty films between 1915 and 1924, portraying Nell Shipman's father, the Skipper, in "The Grub-Stake."
Nell Shipman's friend and confidante, Belle Angstadt (in bed), in the center of the scene during the filming of Shipman's lost film "Wolf's Brush," at Angstadt's Lone Star Ranch, on the shores of Priest Lake, Idaho. At the far left Lloyd Peters...
