Falling Leaves (1912)

1912 · Silent film · 12 min · dir. Alice Guy-Blaché

• Drama

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Synopsis

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines…

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Details

Director

Alice Guy-Blaché

Writer

Alice Guy-Blaché

Studio

Solax Film Company

Released

1912-03-15

Running time

12 minutes

Cast & crew

• Alice Guy-Blaché Director
• Mace Greenleaf
• Blanche Cornwall
• Marian Swayne
• Magda Foy
• Darwin Karr
• Mary Foy

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