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A movie more to be pitied than censured:
This is, for the era, a very primitive movie. In Europe, particularly in Scandinavia, far more advanced techniques were in use at the time. Nonetheless, despite the clearly cardboard backdrops and the stagy acting, this movie about the degradation of a young woman at the hands of a lascivious artist tells its tale purely through cuts, each showing a brief composition, ending with her in the snow carrying a bundle -- presumably her bastard child.
Much more advanced work was being done even in the US, particularly at Edison, where Edwin S. Porter directed THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY the same year. This one can be passed over except as a footnote about dead ends.
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A movie more to be pitied than censured:
This is, for the era, a very primitive movie. In Europe, particularly in Scandinavia, far more advanced techniques were in use at the time. Nonetheless, despite the clearly cardboard backdrops and the stagy acting, this movie about the degradation of a young woman at the hands of a lascivious artist tells its tale purely through cuts, each showing a brief composition, ending with her in the snow carrying a bundle -- presumably her bastard child.
Much more advanced work was being done even in the US, particularly at Edison, where Edwin S. Porter directed THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY the same year. This one can be passed over except as a footnote about dead ends.
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