Movie profile

California's Golden Beginning

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Documentary

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Directed by Edward Salven

The cast

Faces behind the story

John Eldredge

Louis Jean Heydt

Harold Vermilyea

Lane Chandler

Will Wright

Irving Bacon