Blue Water (film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Blue Water

| image = Blue Water 1924 frame.jpg

| caption = Snippet of the film from a newspaper

| director = David Hartford

| producer = Ernest Shipman

| writer = Faith Green
Frederick William Wallace (novel)

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| cinematography = Walter L. Griffin

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| studio = New Brunswick Films

| distributor = Ernest Shipman Films

| released = {{Film date|1924|04|16|df=yes}}

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| country = Canada

| language = Silent
English intertitles

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Blue Water is a lost 1924 Canadian silent film directed by David Hartford and starring Pierre Gendron, Jane Thomas, and Norma Shearer. It is the last feature produced by Ernest Shipman, and is the Montreal-born, future MGM star Shearer's only Canadian film. It had a commercial release in Saint John, New Brunswick, where it was shot, but no print is known to exist.{{cite book|last1=Morris|first1=Peter|title=Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939|date=1978|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|location=Montreal|isbn=0-7735-0323-4|page=120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c08BBAAAQBAJ&q=embattled+shadows&pg=PA40}}Jacobs & Braum p.80 The film failed to succeed commercially, marking Shipman's decline in success until his death in 1931.{{cite news |last1=Soucoup |first1=Dan |title=Blue Water: New Brunswicks first feature film |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/422753686 |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=Times & Transcript |date=28 October 2000|id={{ProQuest|422753686}} }} Without being distributed, the film was stored in a New York vault.{{cite web |title=Ernest Shipman |url=https://nble.lib.unb.ca/browse/s/ernest-shipman |website=nble.lib.unb.ca |publisher=NBLE |access-date=28 April 2024}}

The film has no surviving copies,{{cite news |last1=Eaton |first1=Margaret Patricia |title=Take a break with a good author this summer; 1st Annual Atlantic Author Day celebrates who we are. |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/434267642 |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=Here |date=9 July 2009|id={{ProQuest|434267642}} }} making it a lost film.{{cite news |last1=Webb |first1=Steven |title=Lost to history, Saint John's silent movie is barely a memory a century later |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/saint-john-silent-movie-1.6576389 |access-date=22 August 2023 |date=September 11, 2022}}