Angela Murray Gibson
Producer, Director, Writer, Camerawoman, and Actress: Angela Murray Gibson
(10 minutes) 16mm, b/w, silent
Grant Awarded to: State Historical Society of North Dakota
Archive: State Historical Society of North Dakota
To entice potential suitors, a woman posts a sign offering “Free Ice”. Her young brother, in order to weed out unsuitable potential suitors, replaces it with a “SMALLPOX” sign.
Angela Murray Gibson was one of the early “camerawomen” during the silent era. She provided film for Kinograms, and then launched her own Gibson Studios in Casselton, North Dakota. Her studio produced educational, industrial and entertainment films in which she was featured as an actress, in addition to serving as writer, director, producer and camerawoman. Her films were mostly shot in the North Dakota area, and she recruited local townspeople to act in her films.
The WFPF acknowledges Kino Lorber as a preservation partner in bringing awareness to filmmaker Angela Murray Gibson, which included this film in First Women Filmmakers DVD collection, and partially funded That Ice Ticket’s preservation through their successful Kickstarter campaign.
