Falling Leaves

Falling Leaves (1912)

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 to do everything possible to save her sister.

Date of release
1912-03-15
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (97)
Runtime
12m
Genres
Drama
Director
Alice Guy-Blaché

Casting

Interesting facts

Falling Leaves is a 1912 American silent drama short film by Alice Guy-Blaché, produced at Solax Studios. Starring Solax stock actors, the story concerns a child's earnest effort to keep her dying sister alive by naive means.

Production

The plot of Falling Leaves owes elements to the O. Henry short story "The Last Leaf" (1907). The child hero is a recurring theme in Guy-Blaché films; the first film produced by Solax, A Child's Sacrifice (1910), which also starred Magda Foy, is another example.

When Falling Leaves was made in early 1912, Solax was still operating out of the Flushing studio it rented from Gaumont. The sets were designed by Henri Ménessier, who had worked with Guy-Blaché since 1904. All the primary roles were filled by members of the Solax stock company.

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