The Heart of General Robert E. Lee

The Heart of General Robert E. Lee
The Heart of General Robert E. Lee
Directed by	R. William Neill
Written by	Leon Abrams
Produced by	Herbert T. Kalmus
Starring	J. Barney Sherry; William Walling; Richard Walling; Marjorie Daw; George Berlinger
Cinematography	George Cave
Color process	Two-color technicolor
Production; companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Technicolor Corporation
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	September 27, 1928;
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English Intertitles
Budget	$18,009.85

The Heart of General Robert E. Lee is a 1928 MGM short silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the seventh film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

Production

The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood.^[2]

Preservation status

The film has been preserved in its entirety at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.^[3] The film was, at one point, partially lost, with only the second reel surviving; the first roll was recovered in 2007.^[4]

References

↑ Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 336.
↑ Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
↑ Layton and Pierce 332
↑ "THE HEART OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE (1928) - NitrateVille.com". nitrateville.com. Retrieved May 14, 2024.