The Land Beyond the Sunset
The Land Beyond the Sunset is a 1912 short, silent drama film which tells the story of a young boy, oppressed by his grandmother, who goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group. It stars Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin and Bigelow Cooper. Produced by Edison Studios in collaboration with the Fresh Air Fund, the screenplay was written by Dorothy G. Shore and directed by Harold M. Shaw.
Film's original title card with credit to the author of the story
Edison Studios was an American film production organization, owned by companies controlled by inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas Edison. The studio made close to 1,200 films, as part of the Edison Manufacturing Company (1894–1911) and then Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911–1918), until the studio's closing in 1918. Of that number, 54 were feature length, and the remainder were shorts. All of the company's films have fallen into the public domain because they were released before 1928.
Edison Motion Picture Studio, in the Bronx, New York City, c. 1907–1918
Several films in production at Edison's Bronx studio, c. 1912. Seated in the foreground, with his legs crossed, is Charles Brabin; seated to the rear, with the card "26" under his arm, is Harold M. Shaw.
Horace G. Plimpton, an Edison Studios film producer 1909–1915
Edison Studios produced the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1910).
