The Film Index (Jul-Dec 1910)

30 THE FILM INDEX THE TIE THAT BINDS Released Tuesday, Nov. 29 (Comedy -Drama) Length, Approx. 953 feel A com' dy-drama photoplay, refreshingly new in plot, with a serious theme brightened with clean and clever comedy situations. The kind that gets the laugh that's on the level. " HOW THE REPORTER GOT THE STORY * This Week's Best Comedy is an Essanay and Here It Is. "CIRCLE C" RANCH'S WEDDING PRESENT Released Saturday, Dec. 3 (Western Comedy) Length, approx. lOOO feet Just bubbling over with mirth, heart interest, sentiment! A big, wholesome, laughing hit — characteristic of the Essanay's best work. Better begin yelling for it now. Get Essanay Posters at your exchange. There's class to them. Read the descriptions of the above pictures in the Index. LONDON 5 WardourSt.W. ESSANAY FILM MFC. CO. 435 N. CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. BERLIN 35 Friederich Str. if she will meet him the following morning. She keeps the appointment and George takes her to Greerson's, but even here she is not satisfied until Greerson shows her the check itself, and Nellie is brought out for her inspection. "FINLAND— FALLS OF IMATRA."— Tumbling, rolling, crashing, ever changing, but always the same, the waters of these glorious rapids are shown to perfection in this film. Sometimes the great masses of translucent green water crested with foam and overhung with filmy mists of spray, confront the vision in an uninterrupted vista. Sometimes the ceaseless movement of the waters is viewed through the delicate foliage of silver birch and larch, and from time to time a broadside view of the mighty torrent is flung upon the screen. Never are the rapids anything but superb, and at night, when the moon casts her magic beams upon the waters, turning the high-flung spray into showers of diamond drops, the fairylike beauty of the spectacle is beyond the limitations of words. "THE TALE THE MIRROR TOLD."— Louisa Gerrin, a widow with a little boy of six years, is endeavoring to struggle her way through life. Her landlord refuses her any extra time for payment of her rent, and with a heavy heart she sends little Jack .to school and goes to her own work as a sewing woman at the house of a well-to-do maiden lady. She keeps wondering what she will have to do now, that it looks as if she will be ejected from her lodging. It is hard for her to work, and her eyes wander aimlessly around the room. They rest upon a well-filled purse on the sideboard. She is tempted and she tries to dismiss the thought of stealing by applying herself more as siduously to her work. She cannot, however, resist. No one would know that she took it — there are other servants in the house — and Louisa rises from her chair to advance to the sideboard, then struggles with temptation, to retreat again to her chair. The mistress has at this time just sat down in her chair in the adjoining room to read her paper. She reads about a lady who was murdered by her servant for her purse. Instinctively she feels for her own, and remembers where she left it. She rises to fetch it, but in the mirror sees Louisa take it from the sideboard. Louisa has scarcely reseated herself before she is assailed with remorse. Her better self asserts itself, and not knowing that her mistress is watching her she replaces the purse. The old lady enters and finds the landlord's letter on the table, which she reads behind Louisa's back. A few seconds later little Jack comes in from school proudly wearing a medal presented to him for diligence. The old lady, compassionate for his mother, whom in the goodness of her heart she now desires to aid as delicately as possible, hands him four gold coins under the pretext of wishing to give him an additional reward. "WHAT A DINNER!"— Dr. Chimp is decidedly eccentric and apparently rather likes to chew his way through a good dinner before retiring to rest. It is probably the excellence of this last meal that is responsible for the weird nightmare that assails him during his sleep. Certain it is that curious things befall him, as, for instance, the finding of himself in the kitchen of an old woman decidedly witch-like in appearance. Strange animals, shadowy in outline, but large in bulk, spring into existence at the instant command of the witch's black cat, and disappear with equal suddenness. Then the old woman sends her visitor flying before her broom, and he finds himself in his bed again. Imaginary struggles with elusive burglars and a clumsy nondescript-looking official end the night, and in the gray morning the doctor awakes to find himself desperately fighting the bed clothes. "THE MAID OF NIAGARA."— The film opens with some love scenes between 'Esoomgit, a young warrior of the Iroquois tribe, and Red Doe, a chief's daughter, and one of the most beautiful of the Iroquois tribe. They return to the great camp, and Esoomgit seeks out her father, but he refuses his consent to her marriage with Esoomgit, stating that only a chief should marry his daughter. Great rivalry existed between the Iroquois and the Bison Indians, so when at a meeting of the two tribes Esoomgit excels himself by winning not only the marksmanship competition, but also -the riding and swimming contests, it is only natural that he should be proclaimed a chief, and his marriage to Red Doe sanctioned by her father. It was now time for the annual sacrifice to* propitiate the Spirit of the Cataract. This ceremony consisted in the selection by lot of one of the most beautiful daughters of the Iroquois and placing her in a canoe to float to death over the falls. The maidens take their seats in a circle. An arrow is shot high in the air. It falls at the feet of Red D:e. Escomgit is horrified. His bride-to-be is the one selected for the sacrifice. He tries to dissuade her. Her Strong sense of honor and duty to her tribe, how