Actually, it's all camera faking and props, Ten-year-old Marie Eline plays a midget. One day showman 'P.T.Barum' shows up in the village looking for freaks, and the next thing you know, she's in a tent meeting the other exhibits in the side show. Of course she falls in love with the giant, 6'6" Robert Milasch.
It's a simply told tale from the Thanhouser Studio, with their usual care given to all the technicalities of movie-making in the period. Thanhouser was situated in New Rochelle, and with the founder's connections into the theater, he had access to the resources of the New York stage, and the ambition to make respectable and respectful movies. Like many of the early movie companies, its films fell into obscurity, and were considered lost. However, Ned Thanhouser, the grandson and namesake of the founder has spent the last thirty years or so tracking down and making available as many of the company's films as possible.
It's a simply told tale from the Thanhouser Studio, with their usual care given to all the technicalities of movie-making in the period. Thanhouser was situated in New Rochelle, and with the founder's connections into the theater, he had access to the resources of the New York stage, and the ambition to make respectable and respectful movies. Like many of the early movie companies, its films fell into obscurity, and were considered lost. However, Ned Thanhouser, the grandson and namesake of the founder has spent the last thirty years or so tracking down and making available as many of the company's films as possible.
