| Algie, the Miner | |
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 Film still | |
| Directed by | Harry Schenck Edward Warren Alice Guy |
| Produced by | Alice Guy |
| Starring | Billy Quirk |
| Distributed by | Solax Studios |
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Running time | 1 reel (approximately ten minutes) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Algie, the Miner is a 1912 American silent Western film produced by Solax Studios. It was directed by Harry Schenck, Edward Warren, and Alice Guy and stars Billy Quirk, with Clarice Jackson as Miss Lyons.[1] The film was advertised as: "A real live western comedy, showing how a sissy boy won his sweetheart's hands by going out west and making a man of himself".[2]
During the early days of motion pictures one-reel films, approximately ten-minutes long, were made to be shown as part of a variety show, either in vaudeville theaters, along with live acts featuring singers or comedians, or at a nickelodeon movie theater where the audience paid five cents to view a half-hour of short films.[3] Algie the Miner was shown at both types of theaters.[4][5]
- ^ Algie the Miner, Moving Picture World, January – March 1912, pages 50 & 714
- ^ The New Hippodrome, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), March 9, 1912, page 9
- ^ Jeremy Agnew, The Landscapes of Western Movies: A History of Filming on Location, 1900 – 1970, page 28, McFarland, Inc., 2020
- ^ Lyric Theater ad, The Buffalo Enquirer (Buffalo, NY), March 23, 1912, page 2
- ^ Our Arrow Theatre ad, Los Angeles Evening Express, April 8, 1912, page 18