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1928 film

The Heart of General Robert E. Lee
Directed byR. William Neill
Written byLeon Abrams
Produced byHerbert T. Kalmus
StarringJ. Barney Sherry
William Walling
Richard Walling
Marjorie Daw
George Berlinger
CinematographyGeorge Cave
Color processTwo-color technicolor
Production
companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Technicolor Corporation
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • September 27, 1928 (1928-09-27)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
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.

Preservation status

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

References

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

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