Silent film about Lincoln found in New Hamshire starring Francis Ford by Zuzana Zelenakova

The only known copy of long lost movie When Lincoln Paid starring Francis Ford as Abraham Lincoln was found in an old barn in Nelson, new Hamshire that was scheduled to be demolished. "I was up in the attic space, and shoved away over in a corner was the film and a silent movie projector, as well," said Peter Massie about the discovery of 30-minute two-reeler. "I thought it was really cool." That was back in 2006, Massie kept the film canisters for a while before giving them to Keene State College, where professor Larry Benaquist concluded that this was truly a precious finding. The movie tells a story of a mother of a dead Union soldier who is trying to get a pardon from ! president Lincoln for a Confederate soldier condemned unjustly due to her revenge plotting. Francis Ford who played Lincoln was acknowledged actor, writer and director and also the older brother of director John Ford know for example for adapting to silver screen such classics as The Grapes of Wrath. Another one of his most recognized movies is The Quiet Man or The Long Voyage Home. The Ford brothers were both fascinated with the figure of Abraham Lincoln. “There is nothing I like better than to play Lincoln. I have a big library devoted to this great man, and I have studied every phase of his remarkable character, and when I am acting the part, I can feel the man as I judge him,” said Francis Ford once. Expert on Francis Ford Tag Gallagher explains that not only he was an intriguing personality of the time, but he was also a man, who influenced great John Ford. “Between 1912 and 1915 he played Abraham Lincoln in at least seven pictures. Alas, all of these! pictures are lost. For nearly a century no one has been able ! to see F rancis Ford as Lincoln,” Gallagher said. “So now … to be told that I may get to see Francis Ford as Lincoln is thrilling news indeed.”

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