"The Battle at Elderbush Gulch" is a 29-minute movie from over 100 years ago. As this was made back in 1913, it obviously still has no colors or sound. The director is D.W. Griffith, probably the most significant dramatic director of his era. He is fairly unknown today compared to the likes of Chaplin, but he has left us an immense body of work in terms of quantity, but also quality. Still i must say, that this half-hour movie here is not among my very favorites of his works. I checked for Elderbush Gulch, but all i found was this movie, so it's probably not a depiction of an actual battle. And even if it was, it would have been highly fictionalized with all the personal drama that goes on with the central characters. Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish were among the most known female actors from that era and both appear in this little movie. Thumbs up for the costumes and equipment they used to show this battle to audiences. Well done there, but as a whole still not recommended.
