Has anyone ever been blinded by lightning? That's right - and yet it forms the pivotal point in this sappy romantic tragedy starring an obscure actress named Irmgard von Rottenthal, whose only acting credit this is. She plays a dancer with a dodgy ticker who finds herself suddenly rejected by her recently blinded lover. Of course, this being 1911, he's just making a noble sacrifice so that the writers can resolve things with a ridiculous coincidence...
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Love is Blind
boblipton20 May 2016
A dancer and a young man fall in love. When he goes blind, he tells her he doesn't love her in this Vitagraph short.
This is one of three screen appearances by Irmgard Von Rottenthal. The other two are newsreels and she is credited as a Baroness. That seems to be all the information available online.
As for the movie, it is a watchable movie of the period, one of enormous change in the making of films. The modern viewer will likely find it a bit slow and sentimental, the acting broad. That was the style then, changing rapidly under the new, more restrained style of pantomime created and used by D.W. Griffith at Biograph. Certainly the camera-work offers a lovely rural setting with a lily pond and water mill for the lovers' meetings, indicating the naturalness of their love.
This is one of three screen appearances by Irmgard Von Rottenthal. The other two are newsreels and she is credited as a Baroness. That seems to be all the information available online.
As for the movie, it is a watchable movie of the period, one of enormous change in the making of films. The modern viewer will likely find it a bit slow and sentimental, the acting broad. That was the style then, changing rapidly under the new, more restrained style of pantomime created and used by D.W. Griffith at Biograph. Certainly the camera-work offers a lovely rural setting with a lily pond and water mill for the lovers' meetings, indicating the naturalness of their love.
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