Romantic drama

Ramona

Name: Ramona
Genre: Romantic drama
Released: 1916

Year: 1916
Director: Donald Crisp
Surviving fragment: The finding aid documents reel 5 of 12; it does not establish a complete feature or current public access.

Helen Hunt Jackson’s story of love, dispossession, and racial hierarchy in California was expanded into a long silent feature directed by Donald Crisp.

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The finding aid documents reel 5 of 12; it does not establish a complete feature or current public access.

Country: United States

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The surviving fragment and film record

The Library of Congress finding aid lists a 35mm reference print of reel 5 of 12 in its AFI/Nichol Collection. This documents an incomplete copy; it does not establish current public access or a complete surviving feature.

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Approach the page as a fragment, not a substitute for a complete viewing. Ask what the surviving reel can establish and what the missing material prevents us from judging.

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A quick, non-exhaustive note The complete feature is largely lost; the finding aid documents one incomplete reel. The documented story includes anti-Indigenous racism, displacement, violence, death, and period racial stereotypes. These are story-level cautions, not observations of the surviving reel.

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A surviving reel can prove that a film moved without letting us recover its whole movement. I want the missing space to remain visible rather than smoothing it into a summary.

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