Walking home one night, down-and-out Joe (Lawrence Gray) tries to rob her but she manages to knock him out. Shearer plays Mary, a cigarette girl working in a night-club. The next screening was a somewhat more substantial affair, Norma Shearer starring in After Midnight (Dit. Live piano accompaniment for the two opening films this evening came from John Sweeney who nicely complimented the drama of the first and added to the excitement of the second. The dramatic climax can also be viewed on-line.) (NB This episode of The Timber Queen is available on disc from Harpodeon. But she was also a fairly astute businesswoman, establishing her own production company which made seven very popular serials including this one, ensuring her own future financial security. By the time she retired in the early 1930s she had appeared in over 200 films, rivalling Pearl White as the queen of the early serials. Ruth Roland had been working in films for a decade before The Timber Queen, starting out with Kalem Studios in 1911. At just seven minutes long and with a hefty number of fairly wordy inter-titles this episode of The Timber Queen follows a pretty taught schedule before ending with the traditional dramatic (in fact, very dramatic!) rescue and teaser for the next episode.
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Made by the ‘Ruth Roland Serials’ production company and produced by Hal Roach, most of the 13 parts of this serial are considered lost but at least five survive. Don comes riding to the rescue and dramatically saves Ruth in the nick of time before the railway wagon plunges into the abyss.
Seeing Ruth on top of a railway wagon, Cluxton’s henchman knocks away the supports and the wagon speeds away down the steep railway incline.
Cluxton is concerned that Ruth is getting over friendly with Don Mackay (Bruce Gordon) and sees his inheritance disappearing if they start making marriage plans. If she does not then the company will go to her scheming cousin James Cluxton (Val Paul). In episode 12, The Abyss, Ruth Reading (Roland) is the heiress to a timber company but under the terms of her dead father’s will she will only inherit if she is married by her 21 st birthday. Fred Jackman, US 1922) starring Ruth Roland. Next up we had an episode from a 1922 serial, The Timber Queen (Dir. (NB There is no sign of this film on disc or on-line.) The film also saw an early appearance by Boris Karloff but, unless I blinked and missed it, I think his character disappeared in this radical re-editing. However, the film is not without interest in being not only based upon a Kipling story but also featuring Kipling himself as production designer, brought in to provide the film with an authentic ‘Indian’ look and get around his own reluctance to agree to the production unless it was actually shot in India. But this edited version, cut down to about nine minutes from an original running time of well over an hour, is really just the bare bones of the story without any sort of opportunity for character development or the build-up of any sort of atmosphere. Reviews of this film on its first release were less than complementary with Film Daily describing it as a “Faithful rendering of Kipling’s text but lacking in dramatic screen values.”. Holden is distraught and never returns to the house in which they lived happily together and it is gradually destroyed by floods. Later Ameera is struck down with cholera and also dies. They have a child together but at the age of six the child dies of a fever. Settling the mother’s debts Holden marries Ameera and they live happily together but Ameera, being a Muslim, refuses to mix with the Christian ladies in Holden’s social circle. Spotted by John Holden (Thomas Holding), a British engineer, he stops the sale and is immediately besotted by the girl. Ameera (Virginia Brown Faire) a native girl is about to be married off to an older man by a money-lender (Otto Lederer) to settle the debt owed by Ameera’s mother. James Young, US, 1921), based upon a story by Rudyard Kipling and set in British colonial India. The highlight from tonight’s titles would surely be the 1927 version of Casanova starring silent film heartthrob Ivan Mosjoukine, but before that there were other delights to be explored.įirst up was Without Benefit of Clergy (Dir.
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And tonight we were here to enjoy another selection from renowned film collector, restorer and historian Kevin Brownlow’s library of 9.5mm films, movies that were edited down from first release for sale to the home movie viewer. Kennington Bioscope at the Cinema Museum 14 March 2018īarely had we time to draw breath from the mirth of the Kennington Bioscope’s Silent Laughter Weekend (for details Click here) than we were back at the (still under threat) Cinema Museum for another of the KenBio’s regular Wednesday evening events.
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