Nell Shipman My first major research was focussed on Nell Shipman. Silent film star, director, editor and producer Shipman (1892-1970) came to Idaho in the early 1920s and built a film camp, Lionhead Lodge, on the eastern shore of Priest Lake in north Idaho. There, she made one feature film and a number of two-reelers. In a Shipman film, the woman is always the hero (assisted by an animal actor). Known for her humane treatment of animals (her personal zoo contained a menagerie of over seventy-five feathered, furred, hooved, clawed, pawed and taloned critters), Shipman championed environmental concerns, location shooting and independent film making. Only one Shipman film, Back to God’s Country, was known to have survived, restored by the National Archives of Canada under the direction of D. J. Turner. In the 1980’s I located five “lost” Shipman films. All are now in the Idaho Film Collection at BSU and most been transferred to VHS. I have screened and lectured on Shipman films in the United States, Canada and in Europe and, with the assistance of Barry (Nell’s son) and Beulah Shipman, have established the Shipman Archives at BSU’s Albertsons Library.