Francis Ford’s long-lost Lincoln drama, with original score performed live by The Hardtacks…

About the film:

“When Lincoln Paid is a 1913 American short silent historical drama film written by William Clifford, and directed by Francis Ford, who also appears in the film as Abraham Lincoln.”
[ more at wikipedia >> ]

About The Hardtacks’ Original Score:

Our soundtrack incorporates various Civil War-era folk tunes and songs, performed live to Ford’s silent film (as reconstructed by Keene State College):

Click to view PDF of notes >>

(Latest updated edition: March 2015)
(Arrangement & notes (c)2015 Marek Bennett & Woody Pringle)

SAMPLE CLIP: “The Fugitive” (no soundtrack)

SAMPLE CLIP: “The Pardon” (no soundtrack)

MORE LINKS:

• “When Lincoln Paid” (wikipedia) >>
• “When Lincoln Paid” (IMDB) >>
• Francis Ford (wikipedia) >>
• Francis Ford (IMDB) >>
• 
  SensesOfCinema.com: “Brother Feeney — Francis Ford” = Francis Ford bio article by Tag Gallagher, including many passages in Ford’s own words:
  “I was born in Portland, [Maine], and it is sufficient to say that in the year 1882 I was very young. My dear old daddy injected a grammar school education into me, and tried to give me a dose of high school, but I preferred the Spanish-American war.  / However, I didn’t get any further than Chicamauga and the belly- ache…”
• John Ford (wikipedia) >>
• Keene State College, 2010: “Long-Lost 1913 Lincoln Film to Premiere at the Putnam” >>
  
• MovieMorlocks.com: “FRANCIS FORD: CINEMA PIONEER IN THE SHADOWS”
  
  “There is nothing I like better than to play Lincoln. I have a big library devoted to this great man, and I have studied every phase of his remarkable character and when I am acting the part, I can feel the man as I judge him.”“There is nothing, I like better than to play Lincoln. I have a big library devoted to this great man, and I have studied every phase of his remarkable character and when I am acting the part, I can feel the man as I judge him. I have taken the part in six or seven photoplays now, and every one of them has given a different side of his personality. I have shown his youth, his joys and sorrows, his rail-splitting days, his tragic death, his awkward ways and his capacity for loving. I have not done yet, and I hope to take the part of Lincoln one of these days and show a résumé of his life in a twelve-part picture, or more, if necessary, and when I do, it will be drawn to as near truth as I can make it, and done with due reverence.” ~ Francis Ford (Motion Picture Magazine, June 1915)
• Images of historic theaters in Keene, NH >>