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Life of a Cowboy
(1906) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
Cast: (unknown)
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / Cinematography by Edwin S. Porter. / © 6 June 1906 by Thomas A. Edison [H79002, H79003, H79004, H79005, H79006, H79007, H79008, H79009, H79010, H79011, H79012, H79013]. Released June 1906. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Reviews: [Variety, 19 January 1907, page ?] A long and interesting moving picture is the “Life of a Cowboy” shown as Pastor’s. It covers a wide range of subjects and the locale seems to be really the Western plains. The picture runs from a Western mining camp barroom to the arrival of a stage coach at a ranch with “tenderfeet” aboard, for whose delectation trick lariat throwing is introduced, followed by the holding up of the coach by Indians, the abduction of a young girl, the chase by the cowboys through pretty woods and rolling fields to the recapture of the girl, and the tragic finale where an Indian girl shoots a murderous bad man silently crawling up on the lover of the white girl. The series is so melodramatic in treatment that it acted on the audience like a vivid play. — Sime.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 20 January 2010.
References: Bohn-Light p. 19; Tarbox-Lost p. 44, 279 : Variety-19070119 p. ? : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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