id: Unidentified Film No. 033
director: Unknown
year: 1912?
country: USA?

A private collector was in possession of this fragment from a silent film western for many years before passing the material onto me in April 2008.
The fragment is very short (just the three shots depicted in the accompanying images) and came crudely joined to another fragment from a different silent western with sellotape, which had turned rather nasty and sticky.
(Images corresponding to the other unidentified fragment can be viewed under 'Unidentified Film No. 035').
One shot is tinted yellow. The remaining two are black and white.
The edge of the film stock is occasionally marked 'Eastman', as found on Eastman manufactured film from 1913 prior to the introduction of the coding system in 1916 (examples are not visible in the photographed frames, although traces of one can be glimpsed in the badly damaged perforated area between the top two frames of the 3rd picture).
Although the fragment is no longer in my possession (it's last whereabouts was a lab in London but it may have since moved on), I am still curious to know the exact identity of the film.
Unfortunately, there were no close-ups or inter-titles amongst these three surviving shots, making it very difficult to identify a precise title.
Kevin Brownlow has identified the location as Thomas H. Ince's California studio, Inceville, circa 1912. He has also suggested that the fragment could correspond to a William S. Hart film, although there is no sure way of proving this based on the surviving shots.
Can anyone provide any further information?

Production Company: New York Motion Picture Company?
Producer: Thomas H. Ince?
Format: 35mm, 1.33:1
Picture/Sound: partially coloured, silent
Notes: 'Eastman' edgecode

Source notes
Oliver Hanley, Deutsche Kinemathek, 30.11.2008

This is definitely an Ince production filmed at Inceville in Santa Monica, California