END OF LINCOLN, THE

 

1910, France

Aka… La Fin de Lincoln / ‘The End of Lincoln’ (Fr), La Mort de Lincoln / ‘The Death of Lincoln’ (Sh, Fr)

Ex… ‘The Assassination of Lincoln’ (tr Fr), Das Ende Lincolns / ‘The End of Lincoln’ (10/26/10, Ger)

Pc: Compagnie Générale des Établissements Pathé Frères [Charles Pathé] (Par)

Dist: Société Pathé Frères [Charles Pathé] (1910, Fr)

D: Albert Capellani

P: Charles Pathé & Émile Pathé, Théophile Pathé & Jacques Pathé

Syn: 1865. The Civil War. USA.

C: Henri Desfontaines (Abraham Lincoln [?]), [unk] (John Wilkes Booth), [unk] (Mary Lincoln)

 

     Comm: [Filmed in France]  THE END OF LINCOLN depicts the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Made the same year that Pathé opened their first American studio in New Jersey.

     French director Albert Capellani was born nine years and Henri Desfontaines eleven years after the death of Lincoln.

     A Pathé Berlin ad for THE END OF LINCOLN ran on the back page of the German magazine Kinematograph, n200 (10/26/10, Ger).

     Actor Desfontaines later directed the western inspired adventure film CAPTAIN RASCASSE (1927, Fr).

Submitted by Michael Ferguson