The Deception

Movie
Original title	The Deception
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1909
length	7 minutes
Rod
Director	David Wark Griffith
script	David Wark Griffith
production	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
camera	GW Bitzer
occupation
	Barry O'Moore (as Herbert Yost): Harvey Colton; Florence Lawrence : Mabel Colton; Harry Solter : Harvey's friend; Owen Moore : rich patron; Arthur V. Johnson : his secretary; Mack Sennett : Doctor; Charles Inslee : Landlord; Linda Arvidson; Adele DeGarde : Woman in the laundry; Anita Hendrie : Woman in the laundry; Min Johnson : Woman in the laundry; David Miles : Man in the laundry; Dorothy West : Woman in the laundry;

The Deception ( German : Deception ) is an American Filmmelodram of director David Wark Griffith from the year 1909 . The script was also written by David Wark Griffith, based on the short story A Service of Love by the American writer O. Henry . The silent film is a production by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company .

action

The script is an adaptation of the short story A Service of Love , published in 1906 by the American writer O. Henry in The Four Million , his second collection of short stories.

The young painter Harry Colton fights equally unsuccessfully for artistic recognition and against poverty. So he decides to look for a job, but is held back by his wife Mabel. She pretends to take a job as a piano teacher at the local conservatory. Instead, she works in a laundry. At the end of the first day of work, she drags herself home exhausted and buys the most essential groceries on the way with her daily wage, a single dollar. While she was giving "piano lessons" on the washboard the next day, an art friend came to her husband's home and bought a painting for a handsome price, not without the prospect of further purchases.

In his boundless joy, Harry can't wait for Mabel to come home. He runs to the conservatory, where of course he doesn't find her and no one knows her. Assuming Mabel was cheating on him, he wrote an angry suicide note when he got home. While he is still writing, Mabel comes back from work and presents him with a harrowing sight. She plunged her arms into a bucket of hot soapy water and scalded her from her hands to her shoulders. When Harry realizes how Mabel has sacrificed himself for him, he wants to hug her, but because of her burns he can only kiss her fingertips.

Production notes

The Deception is 653 feet long and was released on a roll of 35mm film along with the short And a Little Child Shall Lead Them . The film was registered with the United States Copyright Office on March 13, 1909 , and was released in theaters on March 22, 1909.

criticism

In its March 27, 1909 edition, The Moving Picture World lets a viewer from the theater business have their say, who admits the Biograph Company's films, for example The Deception and And a Little Child Shall Lead Them , for their dramaturgical structure, the performance of the Praises actors and the suggestive power of the images. This is the quality one would expect from the great theaters on Broadway.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b The Deception , Website Silent Era , January 14, 2009, accessed January 17, 2019.
^ The Deception . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 12, March 20, 1909, pp. 345-346, digitized .
^ The Deception in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 17, 2019.
^ Modern Art in Motion Pictures . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 13, March 27, 1909, p. 363, digitized .

[Silent-1] The Deception , Website Silent Era , January 14, 2009, accessed January 17, 2019.

[MPW1-2] The Deception . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 12, March 20, 1909, pp. 345-346, digitized .

[IMDb-3] The Deception in the Internet Movie Database , accessed January 17, 2019.

[4] Modern Art in Motion Pictures . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 4, No. 13, March 27, 1909, p. 363, digitized .