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Alice Guy-Blaché, Solax, March 1912, about twelve minutes. Winifred is dying of consumption; the family doctor says she will go when the last leaf falls. Her little sister Trixie (Magda Foy, the Solax Kid) ties fallen leaves back onto the trees with string. Passing lung specialist Dr. Headley sees the child and brings his serum. The plot borrows from O. Henry's The Last Leaf. Moving Picture News printed the studio synopsis that March. A 35mm print is at the Library of Congress.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Alice Guy-Blaché shot this at Solax, the Fort Lee studio she owned and managed, with Magda Foy (the Solax Kid) tying fallen leaves back onto the trees so her sister will not die of consumption. Moving Picture News printed the studio's own synopsis in March 1912, which is how a woman-headed company talked to the trade that month. A 35mm print survives at the Library of Congress. The O. Henry borrowing is ordinary; the credit is the news, because the director's name on a Solax one-reeler is the woman who signed the checks and ran the New Jersey lot.
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