The Golden Louis
When his sales to Biograph had mounted to forty-three stories, he received an offer, which he accepted, of a staff position with Klaw & Erlanger, then combined with Biograph in the making of feature films....[1]While there is no evidence that Acker based his scenario on Hans Christian Andersen's tragic tale "The Little Match Girl", some film historians have noted that the plight and fate of the beggar child dying in the snow bear similarities to the plot in the Danish poet's famous short story, which was first published in 1845.[5] Although some motion-picture sources cite nearby Bleecker Street as a secondary site for filming on location, no outdoor footage is included in surviving copies of the short.During his long career as a director, D. W. Griffith gained a reputation among motion-picture crews, performers, and film reviewers for his efforts in making the costumes and sets in his productions as historically accurate as possible, whether in his sweeping epics such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) or in his far less elaborate screen projects.Instead, it was likely that the director's intention in The Golden Louis was simply to convey a general impression of Old Paris to theater audiences, one that could be interpreted as being set within a very broad timeframe, somewhere in the 17th or even 18th centuries.[11] After a series of modifications and innovations, roulette achieved its present layout and wheel structure about 1790, roughly 140 years after the costume styles featured in The Golden Louis.[13][b] In the March 1909 issue of The Nickelodeon, the Chicago trade publication's reviewer H. A. Downey summarizes the film as fundamentally a morality lesson that portrays "the fallacy of good intentions".
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