A Cottage on Dartmoor
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A Cottage on Dartmoor (a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor) is a 1929 British part-talkie sound film, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Norah Baring, Uno Henning and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. The cameraman was Stanley Rodwell. In addition to a sequence with audible dialogue or a talking sequence, the film also featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects and English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Klangfilm Tobis sound recording process. A cut down edited silent version was made for theatres that had not yet converted to sound but this version is no longer extant.
A Cottage on Dartmoor | |
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Directed by | Anthony Asquith |
Written by | Anthony Asquith Herbert Price |
Produced by | Harry Bruce Woolfe |
Starring | Norah Baring Uno Henning |
Cinematography | Stanley Rodwell |
Distributed by | British Instructional Films |
Release date | October 1929 |
Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | Sound (Part-Talkie) English Intertitles |
It was the last of Asquith's films before fulling converting to all-talking pictures. The film was produced during the transition period from silents to talkies in British cinema, a point which is referenced in the film itself.