The Forgotten Frontier

The Forgotten Frontier

Infobox Film
name = The Forgotten Frontier


caption = "A Frontier Nurse Rides Through The Rain"
director = Marvin Breckinridge Pattersonwith a hand-cranked camera, often in extreme climate. Also documented in stills that are available at the Library/Cong. and maybe at National Womens/Arts Museum, who had a show of them in the late 80s, early 90s.
producer =
writer | starring = Mary Breckinridgeand the people of Hazard County KY, many of whom reenacted their stories
music = silent until a pseudo-hillbilly soundtrack was added in the 1990s by the Library of Congress
cinematography = Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
editing = Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Judy Herbert (restoredversion)
distributor = Carousel Film & Video
released = 1931
runtime = 59 min.
language = English
country = USA
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0021881

"The Forgotten Frontier" is a 1931 documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary Breckinridge, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service.

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.


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