The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

| image = Girl Spy Vicksburg008.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Gene Gauntier as Nan, the Girl Spy

| director = Sidney Olcott

| producer = Sidney Olcott

| writer = Gene Gauntier

| based_on =

| starring = Gene Gauntier
JP McGowan
Robert Vignola

| music =

| cinematography = George K. Hollister

| editing =

| studio = Kalem Company

| distributor = General Film Company

| released = {{film date|1910|12|28}}[https://archive.org/details/filmindex06film/page/28/mode/2up?q=Vicksburg "Record of Weekly Licensed Film Releases" / "The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg"]; published in The Film Index (New York, N. Y.), December 31, 1910, p. 29. Retrieved via Internet Archive (San Francisco, California), May 7, 2023.

| runtime = 935 ft
(14 minutes)According to the reference How Movies Work by Bruce F. Kawin (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46-47), a full 1000-foot reel of film in the silent era had a maximum running time of 15 to 16 minutes. Silent films were generally projected at an average or "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, much slower than the 24 frames of later sound films. This film, with its cited length of 935 feet, would have originally run somewhere between 14 and 15 minutes.

| country = United States

| language = Silent film
(English intertitles at release in United States)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg is a 1910 American silent film produced by Kalem Company of New York and shot at the company's "winter studio" in Jacksonville, Florida. Directed by Sidney Olcott, the Civil War drama stars Gene Gauntier, Robert Vignola and JP McGowan.{{cite book|author=Wesley Alan Britton|title=Onscreen and Undercover: The Ultimate Book of Movie Espionage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YzSFuZeZZkC&pg=PA34|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-99281-1|pages=34–5}}{{cite book|author=Denise Lowe|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68e2AgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA1932|date=27 January 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-71896-3|pages=1932–5}}{{cite book|author=Laura Horak|title=Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wNYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|date=26 February 2016|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-7484-4|pages=46}} Gauntier, in addition to performing as the production's title character, is credited with writing its storyline or "scenario".{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg [ID FLM24827]|url=http://catalogue.eyefilm.nl/ce/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 21, 2021|website=EYE Filmmuseum Collection Catalogue [online database]|language=Dutch}}

A full copy of this film, although with Dutch intertitles, is held at the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.