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The Beggar Maid

Item number (ISN):

272110

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1921

Item number (ISN):

272110

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Beggar Maid

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1921

Release date:

1921-09-25

Production company:

Triart Productions Inc.

Production credit:

director, Herbert Blaché; producer, Isaac Wolper; art director, Lejaren à Hiller; series originator, Vera Royer

Cast credit:

Mary Astor, Reginald Denny

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

W.W. Hodkinson Corporation

Description:

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A fictional story that could have inspired the 1884 Edward Burne-Jones painting titled "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid." THE BEGGAR MAID opens with a title that tells us that painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones was one of the foremost artists of his time, that he was born in Birmingham, England on August 28, 1833, died in London June 17, 1898, and that "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid," "perhaps his finest work." was completed in 1884. It adds that it now hangs in the Tate Gallery, London. A later title tells us that his "kindness of heart and unfailing sympathy earned him the jocular nickname - The Wolf."~The girl has the responsibility of caring for a sickly older brother but the artist persuades her to sit for him. He then tells the Earl "...you shall be the King" in my painting. The Earl agrees and work begins, the Earl posing as King Cophetua and the orphan girl as the titular beggar maid. The two start to fall in love and the artist is soon faced with the girl’s brother and his friend who complain that "people are talking." We see the Earl kiss the maid in the woods and later she tells her brother that the Earl loves her. Shocked enough to snap a string in his violin, he tells her, "This is madness...you must not see him again." Later, looking out of the cottage window, the brother sees them embrace and suffers a stroke, smashing the window with his violin in the process. A doctor warns that a second stroke could prove fatal and the girl tells the Earl that she cannot see him again. He answers that he will wait for her to send for him.~Later the artist comes upon the brother, a painter himself and now in good health, and invites him to come to watch him working in his studio. The brother accepts. Once the brother and his friend are in the studio, with the girl attired as the beggar maid, the artist shows them Tennyson’s poem. The brother and his friend fear that the difference in their social stations dooms the match between Earl and maid but seem less apprehensive after reading Tennyson’s lines. The Earl appears, costumed as the king, and the artist is able to complete his masterpiece. The last shot is of a remarkably faithful reproduction of the painting, "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid." <25mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The running time is an estimate based on the footage given in the 1930 Kodascope catalogue, calculated at 20 fps.~2. U.S. Copyright, 25 September 1921.~3. Exteriors were shot in April 1921, at Oyster Bay, Long Island.~4. Interiors were shot in the Tilford Cinema Corporation studios, 165 West 31st Street, New York City.~5. The Sir Edward Burne-Jones painting is at the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain), London, England.~6. First released at the Rivoli, New York City, on the same programme as "THREE WORD" BRAND with William S. Hart.~7. Reviewed: New York Times, September 26, 1921, page 18, and again on October 2, 1921, page 3, section 7; Moving Picture World, October 15, 1921, page 806.~8. Herbert Blaché, the creator of this film, died in 1953 - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

410211

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-8598
GC-8599
GC-8600
GC-8601

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

410216

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-8598/A
GC-8599/A
GC-8600/A
GC-8601/A

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

410217

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-8599/B
GC-8600/B
GC-8601/B

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

410219

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-8601/C

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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