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Auction History Result 3s829 WESTERN BORDER 8x10 LC '15 guy holds gun on Asian man & guy tending to young child! Date Sold 1/8/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Lobby Card (Learn More) Western Border, the 1915 Frank Montgomery silent Native American Indian cowboy western short starring Frederick Bartlett and Mona Darkfeather. Note that this movie is completely forgotten today, but it has important film history! It is one of the many movies made by Frank Montgomery, and it starred his wife, Mona Darkfeather (they worked together in the early 1910s). She was born Josephine Workman in Los Angeles in 1882, but as a young woman, she claimed Indian and Spanish heritage (from an "aristocratic Spanish family"), and she made movies beginning in 1909, and she was a major star between 1913 and 1915, almost always playing Native Americans. Her husband directed her in 87 of her movies, and they each made around 30 movies without the other. She retired in 1917, and she lived in Los Angeles until her death in 1977 at the age of 95, and at the time of her passing, she was a ward of the state, and was buried in an unmarked grave. Someone should certainly make a movie about the life of this remarkable couple, so that they can be brought out of obscurity! Important Added Info: Note that the only items we have ever seen on this movie are four 8x10 lobby cards (including this one). It has the correct distributor name (Kriterion Service) and the correct studio name (Monty), with the correct emblem for C.K. Pictures. However, this movie was made in February of 1915, and that predates any lobby cards we know of, so it is possible they are from an unmarked re-release of this movie, likely within the next two years. In any event, they are a really cool artifact of the very beginning of movies and movie posters. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them. Condition: very good to fine. The still is in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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