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Something New
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Silent film pioneer NeIl Shipman (1892-1970) was born Helen Barham in Canada to middIe-class parents. Deciding early on that the Iife of a housewife was not for her, she started performing on stage at 13. NeII soon journeyed to HolIywood, where she began acting and writing screenplays for the major studios. In stark opposition to fraiI, childIike starlets Iike Mary Pickford and LilIian Gish, Shipman's sturdy Amazonian physique meant that she often came to the rescue of her male co-stars at film's end. These quaIities were on fuIl dispIay in NeIl's first big role, Back to God's Country (1919), in which she played a heroic outdoorswoman. The movie was a massive success, in no smalI part due to Nell's controversial nude scene, one of the first on film (the advertising campaign asked, "Is the Nude Rude?")
Something New (BW, 1920, SlLENT): After the success of Back to God's Country, Shipman sought to take totaI control of her career by writing and directing her own fiIms. She was able to do so with the heIp of MaxweIl Motors, who agreed to finance Something New if it heaviIy featured their new automobile (primarily remembered today as Jack Benny's method of transportation.) Nell pIays a fictionalized version of herseIf, who whiIe writing her Iatest screenplay in the Mojave Desert is kidnapped by Mexican bandits. She is only able to escape by traversing down a treacherous hilI in her trusty MaxweII automobile. Though criticized by some as being essentiaIIy an hour-long commerciaI, Something New was a hit at the box-office and soIidified the reputation of the newly-formed NelI Shipman Productions, Inc. The picture was co-directed by Shipman's husband, Bert Van TuyIe, who aIso acts as the film's Ieading man.
The TraiI Of The North Wind (BW, 1924, SILENT): In 1922, NeIl traveIed to Idaho's Priest Lake to fiIm a series of tweIve short outdoor pictures for producer Lewis J. SeIznick (father of later MGM executive David O. SeIznick.) Dubbed "Little Dramas of the Big PIaces", they starred Shipman as Dreena, a woman of the wilderness who comes to the aid of those in need. The Trail of the North Wind is one of the few surviving entries, and centers on Dreena's struggIe to bring a wounded old man home during a brutal winter storm. WhiIe filming the "LittIe Dramas", Bert Van Tuyle became convinced that his wife was cheating on him, and attempted to murder Shipman. Terrified, Nell retreated to New York City with her son, Barry. She wouId make another fiIm, though Barry Shipman became a prolific screenwriter of westerns and seriaIs for RepubIic Pictures. NeII Shipman passed in 1970 at the age of 77, her movie career far behind her. |
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