Original organ score for theaters composed by Andrew Crow[2]
Distributed by
Motion Picture Distributors and Sales Company
Release date
June 20, 1911 (1911-06-20)[1]
Running time
15 minutes, 35mm 1 reel (1000 feet)[a]
Country
United States
Languages
Silent film English intertitles
Newspaper advertisement for the "Great Feature Film" in Pensacola, Florida in June 1911
The Coffin Ship is a 1911 American silent film, a nautical melodrama produced by the Thanhouser Company of New Rochelle, New York. Featuring William Garwood in a starring role, the identities of the motion picture's other two principal cast members remain undetermined.
A full print of the film, one distributed in Europe in 1911 with German intertitles and titled Im Meere Verloren ("Lost in the Sea"), is preserved in the collection of the EYE Film Institute in the Netherlands.[3]
^"The Coffin Ship", review, The Billboard (Cincinnati, Ohio), volume XXIII, number 25, June 24, 1911, p. 24. Retrieved via Internet Archive, April 15, 2023.
^"The Coffin Ship", Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. non-profit organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Retrieved via April 15, 2023.
^Im Meere Verloren [German title for The Coffin Ship (1911)], uploaded by "EYE Filmmuseum" c. 2016. Accessed via YouTube, April 15, 2023.
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