In the first couple of years of it's life Thanhouser seemed to specialise in classics ie "The Last of the Mohicans", "Under Two Flags" etc.
Florence La Badie makes a beautiful Cinderella but she has to take a back seat to the fantasy of trick photography. It's the story of Cinderella, with the ugly stepsisters laughing at her pleadings to go to the ball but when the Fairy Godmother arrives, turning a pumpkin into a fairy coach and mice into the darlingest little ponies - I'm sure people in the cinema audience couldn't believe their eyes!! It is all done so smoothly. And when Cinders is turned into a fairy princess, wow!!!
Another thing Thanhouser had going for it was the spaciousness that came of having a film studio in the suburbs - the interior of the castle was grand enough to show a ball, the ugly sister's house looked like a gentleman's residence (a spacious, upper class house) and the grounds were big enough to show Cinderella flitting through the trees with a nice run down a long staircase.
Florence La Badie makes a beautiful Cinderella but she has to take a back seat to the fantasy of trick photography. It's the story of Cinderella, with the ugly stepsisters laughing at her pleadings to go to the ball but when the Fairy Godmother arrives, turning a pumpkin into a fairy coach and mice into the darlingest little ponies - I'm sure people in the cinema audience couldn't believe their eyes!! It is all done so smoothly. And when Cinders is turned into a fairy princess, wow!!!
Another thing Thanhouser had going for it was the spaciousness that came of having a film studio in the suburbs - the interior of the castle was grand enough to show a ball, the ugly sister's house looked like a gentleman's residence (a spacious, upper class house) and the grounds were big enough to show Cinderella flitting through the trees with a nice run down a long staircase.
