Cupid Angling is a silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

, the fifth feature film

Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 photographed in color.

The film was produced by Leon F. Douglass

Leon Douglass

Leon Forrest Douglass was an American inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company who registered approximately fifty patents, mostly for film and sound recording techniques.-Life and professional career:...

's National Color Film Company in the Lake Lagunitas

Lake Lagunitas

Lake Lagunitas is a reservoir on Lagunitas Creek in Marin County, California.It is one of seven reservoirs providing potable water to the Marin Municipal Water District. Built in 1873, it is the oldest and smallest lake in the Mount Tamalpais watershed....

 area of Marin County, California

Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As of 2010, the population was 252,409. The county seat is San Rafael and the largest employer is the county government. Marin County is well...

, and was made in the Douglass Natural Color process, the only feature film made in this process. Douglass was also a partner in the founding of the Victor Talking Machine Company

Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey....

. The film stars Ruth Roland

Ruth Roland

Ruth Roland was an American stage and film actress and film producer.-Early life and career:Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville...

 and Albert Morrison and has walk-on appearances by Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 and Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....

.

Earlier color features are With Our King and Queen Through India

With Our King and Queen Through India

With Our King and Queen Through India is a British documentary. The film is silent and made in the Kinemacolor additive color process....

(1912), The World, the Flesh and the Devil

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914 film)

The World, the Flesh and the Devil was a British silent drama film, and was the world's first dramatic feature film to be photographed in color...

(1914), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914), all filmed in Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor

Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906. He was influenced by the work of William Norman Lascelles Davidson. It was launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of...

, and The Gulf Between

The Gulf Between (1917 film)

The Gulf Between was the first motion picture made in Technicolor, the fourth feature-length color movie, and the first feature-length color movie produced in the United States. Today, the film is considered a lost film, with only a few frames of film extant. The Gulf Between was directed by Wray...

(1917), filmed in Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

.

This film is now considered a lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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See also

• List of American films of 1918
• List of color film systems
• Color motion picture film
• List of early color feature films
• List of lost films