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Falling Leaves (1912)

Falling Leaves poster
Directed by
Alice Guy-Blaché
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
12 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 94 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young girl tries to save her older sister from tuberculosis by stopping the autumn leaves from falling. She believes her plan will keep her sister alive.

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What happens

Falling Leaves is a 1912 American silent short film by Alice Guy-Blaché, produced at Solax Studios. Starring Solax stock actors, the story concerns a child's earnest effort to keep her dying sister alive by naive means. A print of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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