Appendix C – Research Materials
These are some of the title pages from the John Ford / Harry Carey Universal titles as adapted for the Boys’ Cinemacomics, published between 1919 and 1921. All of the films below are presumed lost, apart from The Judgement of the Desert, an alternative title for Hell Bent (1918). These two images are from Harry Carey Junior’s private archive…
Appendix B – Harry Carey Jr. Interview Transcript
This is a transcript of an interview conducted with Harry Carey Jr., at his home in Santa Barbara in October of 2007. The transcript has been edited to include only those comments relating to his father’s partnership with John Ford. SM: How many films did Harry Carey Senior make with Ford? HC: They made 26…
Appendix A – Film Sources
This section details the sources for the twenty-three silent John Ford films that form the basis for the main text of the thesis. Those films for which there is no official outlet for release are labelled as being supplied by a Private Collector. The list also includes two early Francis Ford films at the beginning,…
Filmography
Asquith, Anthony Underground (1927, Great Britain) Bogdanovich, Peter Directed by John Ford (2009, USA) Borzage, Frank Seventh Heaven (1927, USA) Brown, Clarence and Tourneur, Maurice The Last of the Mohicans (1920, USA) Brownlow, Kevin & Gill, David Hollywood: The Pioneers – Out West (1980, Great Britain) Cruze, James The Covered Wagon (1923, USA) Eaton, Andrew John Ford (1992, Great Britain) Ford, Francis…
Bibliography
Anderson, L. (1981) About John Ford. London: Plexus Publishing Limited. Anon (1922) ‘A Gun Fightin’ Gentleman’, Boys’ Cinema, Vol. 5, No.110, pp.2-5. Anon (2011) ‘The Shan Van Voght’ [Online]. Available at: http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/ballads/PGa027.html (Accessed: 11th January, 2011) Bandy, M. L. (1999) The American Place: Landscape in the Early Western. New York: Museum of Modern Art. Barra, A. (2001) ‘Review of…
Chapter 8 – Conclusions and Afterword
Introduction In gathering together the most comprehensive collection of John Ford’s extant silent films over a research period of more than six years, I have been able to examine the early development of the director’s style and aesthetic in a manner that had not been possible before. Previously, Ford scholars such as Joseph McBride, Tag…
Chapter 7 – The Fox Years 1927 to 1930: From Silent to Sound
Introduction This chapter will consider the titles Ford directed for Fox between 1927 and 1930, a period that began with the totally silent Upstream (1927), followed by a combination of films with synchronised and full sound, through to the release of the late part-silent title Men Without Women (1930). The evolution and development of major Fordian themes such as…
Chapter 6 – The Fox Years 1921 to 1926: Becoming ‘John Ford’
Introduction This chapter will consider the films John Ford directed for Fox from Just Pals (1920) to The Blue Eagle (1926), a period that ended just before the coming of sound. These films will be interrogated within the framework around theories of authorship developed in the previous chapters. The chapter also considers how Ford’s nascent auteuristapproach to his Universal work…
Chapter 5 – The Universal Years 1914-1917: Directorial Apprenticeship
Introduction This chapter will examine Ford’s directing apprenticeship at Universal, and how some of the thematic and visual motifs associated with the director’s later work – as defined by Wollen, Eyman and Duncan, along with the themes and visual motifs I have identified through my own research – were forged over the four years he…
Chapter 4 – The Universal Years 1914-1917: Pre and Early Directing Career and Influences
Introduction This chapter will consider the pre-directing career of John Ford, with emphasis on the early influences of filmmakers such as D.W. Griffith, and Ford’s older brother and mentor, Francis Ford. As will be shown, the influence of these directors is expressly identifiable in Ford’s early work. This section will also contextualise some of the…
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