Jane’s Declaration of Independence

1915
United States
Directed by Charles Giblyn
Restored in 2019
San Francisco Silent Film Festival, EYE Filmmuseum

Cast

Hobart Henley, Agnes Vernon, Frank MacQuarrie, Jean Hathaway, Gordon Griffith
Music by: Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (on Blu-ray)
Produced by: Bison Motion Pictures
Available Formats
35mm
Runtime
19 min.
FPS
18
Intertitle Language
English
Jane dearly wishes to marry her soldier fiancé, but her father tries to stand in her way! Shot in the Presidio in 1915, the film features images of a long since disappeared San Francisco.
Jane’s Declaration of Independence was restored in 2019, after SFSFF Board President and Lead Restorationist Rob Byrne discovered a unique nitrate print of the title at EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. While the print is somewhat incomplete, the film nontheless contains reocrds of San Francisco buildings no longer standing. A collaboration between EYE Filmmuseum and SFSFF, the restoration was generously funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation.

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