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Sep 26, 2010 · In the years before the First World War, a man called James Young Deer was celebrated in the American movie business papers as the world's first Native American film-maker. He...
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Oct 13, 2023 · Young Deer, vp and general manager of the Thompson Moving Picture Corporation in Cushing, shot nearly 8,000 feet of film (approximately 80 minutes) and cast hundreds of Native Americans...
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Between 1910 and 1913, James Young Deer (otherwise known as James Young Johnson) made well over a hundred one-reel silent Westerns in America for French organisation Pathé Frères, then the largest production company in the world.
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James Young Deer was born on 1 April 1876 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Lieutenant Daring RN and the Water Rats (1924), Tragedies of the Osage Hills (1926) and The Stranger (1920).
Few in Hollywood knew that James Young Deer, general manager of Pathé Frères West Coast Studio from 1911 to 1914, was really an imposter. After all, Young Deer had earned a reputation as the first Native American producer and had worked alongside D. W. Griffith, Fred J. Balshofer, and Mack Sennett.
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Including a link to one of the few examples of his work to survive ('White Fawn's Devotion' from 1910), the post highlights the fact that Young Deer strove to oppose the emerging stereotype in popular culture of Native Americans as savage unreasoning killers to present them as civilised and capable of mercy and love.
