"Falling Leaves" (1912) silent film dir by Alice Guy Blaché - piano score by Ben Model

[@태이씨]

It is mind blowing to see the little kid living more than a hundred years ago. That is why i love first films. They are freaking time machine!

[@vestibulate]

A charming film from long ago. Alice Guy-Blaché, the director, is a very important figure in the development of cinema and unjustly neglected. She's the first woman director, and her contributions remain important to this day. This little production, by the way, is centered on the terrible ravages of tuberculosis, a disease still unchecked at the time. Many thanks for posting this work.

[@vestibulate]

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[@vestibulate]

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[@jamesonmatthew2654]

@Leonardo Beau yea, been watching on FlixZone for since april myself :D

[@slabstories]

I'm happy to find this I chose Alice Guy Blache for film history project. Beautiful music.

[@silentfilmmusic]

Fantastic! Thanks so much. There are a lot of AGB's films available from Kino Lorber. On disc, for sure, but they may also be on Kanopy or Kino's streaming site.

[@slabstories]

Thanks 🙏

[@Mimilewis8768]

Maybe the true pioneer of the natural acting style! Way ahead of her time. In her old age she said she was a philosopher. I see that in her work. Amazing! Thank you for sharing❤️

[@scottfrench4139]

The sign on the wall of her studio, for the actors: "Be Natural."

[@theda2774]

I love your music score, it's so synchronized with the film which makes it more immersive in the story

[@ellieb.4234]

So amazing. I'm honestly surprised no one has written a film off of this one yet. I would watch it!

[@silentfilmmusic]

AGB was such a good director, and I'm always impressed when someone finds this short and writes about how moved they've been by it.

[@currykingwurst6393]

Just found this now. That's a beautiful score you wrote there. I bet Mme Guy-Blaché would've appreciated it.

[@gtlfb]

Charming. It is remarkable how we can sense the dialogue. Surely suggested by O Henry’s story “The Last Leaf”.

[@natezomby]

"I am tying these leaves to keep my sister from dying" ;_;

[@RexColt]

I farted while watching this

[@Daxkalak]

She not only gave a female sensitivity and style to film, but a french one too. The Father of Film is actually a Mother: Alice Guy Blache.

[@severinefisteberg8893]

Very lovely little girl and movie. Poor sister.. Thanks god she . Survived at the end .a lovely story❤❤. I almost cried..😢the little actress is poignant .

[@believeinpeace]

I’m so impressed with the music you added. Very well done!!

[@BaltoJoey]

According to Wikipedia. This film is an adaptation of the O. Henry story "The Last Leaf" published in 1907. In 1952 this story was included in the film "O. Henry's Full House."

[@Esperluet]

3:00 Love the appearance of the doctor.

[@fraido100]

Bravo à elle. Elle se trouve le moyen de faire d'un enfant un héros en 1912! Chapeau. le film est d'une grande sensibilité, d'une grande poésie, d'une grande finesse dramatique.

[@silentfilmmusic]

Merci! I'm so glad you enjoyed getting to watch this film with my score.

[@francoisebeylie2923]

Il est vrai que la petite fille joue vraiment bien.

[@dianepeiffer8222]

My mother spent 18 months in a TB sanitarium in Colorado in the early 1050s as a young bride. She had breathing issues later in life, but lived until she was 96 and raised 5 children.

[@daveidmarx8296]

Wow! So you must be close to 1,000 then?

[@peterswires8439]

@@daveidmarx8296 They made 'em tough in the Eleventh Century.

[@johnfalstaff2270]

I am ashamed to admit that despite my interest in the old film culture i have not heard about Alice Blaché. She was great...

[@efan2012]

Thanks for doing this.. first time I've seen this in years and years. TCM had a 3 hr special when I was in middle school showing sorts of a silent movie box set and this was on it. Robert Osborune was really big on it and I've always enjoyed it. I forgot how well acted and moving it was for 1912.. you have to remember this was a good 3 years before DW Griffith innovated a lot more things. They were still learning the tricks. Alice did an excellent job here; it's like she filmed for ages more. It's heartbreaking with the little one and when the doctor comes I forgot how heroic it was. Well done with the music! Fits it perfectly.

[@singatune]

In 1916a 5 reel film "The Invisble Enemy" was made by E.O.K. Company. TB was also known as rhe White Plague. This 1912 film was very nice film with great score but the 1916 film was educating people that were buying useless syrups claiming to cure TB. Thanks for this great film.

[@neoniahazelwood9263]

I love silent movies.

[@benmodel2079]

Glad you enjoyed this one! Lots more silents on my channel...hope you'll subscribe.

[@LawrenceNewman-qm9ui]

I love these movies can watch theme all day in nite

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Great old movie but in reality consumption (TB) killed so many people; it was so sad. When I was a kid (I'm 73) my Mom +GOD bless her soul+ used to work in a TB sanitarium. The horror stories she would tell me I could write a book about it, perhaps I will.

[@alvexok5523]

Not everyone succumbed to tuberculosis, did they? I think there were some real life happy stories, like in the film where someone overcome the illness. But there were definitely many sad stories also

[@emilymalden3310]

Maybe if it was diagnosed in time, and the doctor was qualified and cared, people survived it.

[@Nstone53]

My great uncle died in his first year from TB in 1910. My grandmother had baby photos of him. (Which I now have) It always stuck me as odd that my grandmother had those photos. You might think they would have disappeared with my x2 great grandparents. When I see his photo, I have appreciation for Victorian mothers and the hardships they had to perceiver through.

[@carlospinzon8415]

3 years have passed, did the book happen?

[@Savioami]

@@carlospinzon8415 sometimes to conceive a book it may take years....

[@claudiocesarlima7353]

Quase doze minutos de pura arte, beleza, genialidade.

[@DeboraRafaela777-ss9rz]

Amazing ❤❤❤

[@francescafa2248]

Beautiful, thanks a lot for this short movie !

[@silentfilmmusic]

You’re welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed getting to see this.

[@dinodog1472]

So lovely! Thank you for sharing

[@heatherhammond6120]

Simply fantastic.

[@7Steveski]

Brought a tear to my eye…

[@christophe8412]

Touchant et poétique.

[@sagelovescoffee]

how dare you pull at my heart strings! ugh this was so good

[@silentfilmmusic]

Glad you enjoyed this film. Alice Guy was such an important figure.

[@MikiKhaleesi]

I didn't know that "consumption" ment "tuberculosis". Dreadful desease (>

[@Offmedication]

If she wasn't out there hanging the leaves, the doctor would have passed on by. Yup, me gets it now.

[@youngsteph1]

Why would he be passing at that time of night.

[@Psilanderfan1884]

I enjoyed watching this short film last November on TCM, Along with more silent films by pioneer women directors!

[@efan2012]

I seen this on TCM too; it was a good 19 years ago though. There was a box set being promoted "More treasures from the American film archives," and there was a 3 hr special and this was shown on it. Props to TCM for continuing to show it and get it out there.

[@TheVirajster]

Another great gem...loved it!!

[@sorrybabyx]

I loved it I cried

[@silentfilmmusic]

Glad you were so moved by the 100+-year-old film. Alice Guy was a gifted filmmaker!

[@marialeonorherran3642]

Muy linda, encantadora película.

[@simonebulleri1975]

Amazing.❤

[@etaleonis]

thanks for sharing!

[@RagtimeFreak86]

This is a film based on an earlier popular tearjerker song from 1907.. "I'm tying the leaves so they won't come down" by Erasmus Huntington. This is probably one of the first movies to be based on a song. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHOtepWFp7qkoKs

[@nnnnmhughuuhhjiijj9457]

I thought, it was based on "The Last Leaf" a short story by O Henry.

[@cjsheu]

child actors: being precocious since 1912

[@DrYing]

Poor Alice.. Hope you r fine in the heaven.

[@doyasteve]

Thanks very much for sharing this.

[@origonalname119]

A simple, but beautiful and touching film. Beautiful score too, was there an original score to base it on, or did you have to start from scratch?

[@llaguno884]

Beautiful

[@thecinematicmind]

This will be part of a huge Bluray set of female filmmakers released by the BFI in June.

[@theresaholguin699]

Awesome movie❤

[@caiodaquino]

Thanks for sharing!

[@silentfilmmusic]

Glad you enjoyed this!

[@Savioami]

"when the last leaf falls , she will have passed away!" ... since little trixie tied leaves not to fall ...she recovered .... happy end

[@MikeB-sp6gp]

Thank you for the beautiful music you scored for this wonderful small film. Was this the sort of music that accompanied early films like these? When I think of silent movies, I imagine the music being busier in an effort drum up the tension of the plot by making the audience worry that the sister might die, or milking the sad sentimentality of the scene in which the girl tries to string up the leaves. The music here, in contrast (to me at least-- I know absolutely nothing about music,) seems almost lazily melodic. Rather than forcing tension into the story, the music seems to underscore the goodness of the characters and the world-- a perspective that, at the moment, comes as a welcome, and inspiring, relief.

[@rtcfrtcdana]

Actual score. Delightful

[@abeehah]

we need subtitles i cant hear them

[@theresaholguin699]

Sad beautiful

[@torpeligneB]

Trop mignon la ptite...

[@silentfilmmusic]

Oui! Merci for watching this!

[@ashzinho]

Very cute

[@josephbposton]

At first, I thought this was going to be an adaptation of a Saki story.

[@fabietg2464]

josephbposton Saki story?

[@Skimaskkass]

@@fabietg2464 Saki is the pen name of a British writer

[@fabietg2464]

@@Skimaskkass thank you!

[@thierryrebillard6432]

Everyone in France knows Alice Guy-Blaché normal she is French

[@francoisebeylie2923]

Même en France, il y a beaucoup de gens qui ne la connaissent pas.

[@iVenge]

Just think what she could have done had she been properly credited and encouraged, and continued to make films.

[@stefanripolli4237]

Il me semble que c'est inspiré d'une nouvelle de O. Henry dans laquelle un peintre dessine une feuille sur le mur de la maison d'en face, la seule qui ne tombe pas durant la tempête.

[@147Brighton]

George Orwell died of TB at age 46, in 1950. And I gather the disease is making something of a comeback.

[@MeggEmbers]

Who is here beacuse of Alicia Malone's book

[@renecomedy]

MeggEmbers JUST saw a documentary about her on tv, and had to watch this the second it finished.

[@peterswires8439]

Me - I've just heard her reading an abridged version of it on BBC Radio Four.

[@fernandoalves67]

Wolli quem são os Hinumanos.

[@wonderer-u4r]

These 'wishful thinking' films make me so sad. Dreadful disease, unable to be treated until antibiotics were found in WW2. My grandaunt was the age of the older girl portrayed in this movie when she died from TB in 1908. My grandma took it very hard the rest of her life. Grief of TB broke their hearts, and the hearts and lives of millions of others across the globe.

[@johnhayes3171]

Ben is great, as always, but those digitally-held freeze-frame title cards really suck. I wish all those "restoring" gurus would knock it off.

[@vlad34791]

Who else came here from Titanic Voyage 2018?

[@fernandoalves67]

ok

[@evgeniykostetskiy6724]

All of these people are dead.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Indeed they are

[@NoirFan84]

Yeah the little girl was played by Magda Foy & perhaps unsurprisingly she was the longest living cast member. She passed in 2000 at the age of 94.

[@kodiakwallander1728]

boring

[@psmagalha]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing this. And thanks to Google for providing "youtube"