- The Forgotten Frontier
Infobox Film
name = The Forgotten Frontier
caption = "A Frontier Nurse Rides Through The Rain"
director =Marvin Breckinridge Patterson with 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 Breckinridge and 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 =
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followed_by =
imdb_id = 0021881"The Forgotten Frontier" is a 1931
documentary film about theFrontier Nursing Service , nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of theAppalachian Mountains of the easternUnited States . It was directed byMary Marvin Breckinridge , and featured her cousin,Mary Breckinridge , who was a nurse-midwife and founded theFrontier Nursing Service .The film has been selected for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry .
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