Forty years after he was in charge of Edison's project to make a working motion picture camera, J. Stuart Blackton was credited as director of this movie.
This movie plays like an hour long newsreel.
This film is an absolute travesty by a man who had been involved in film-making from its earliest days and was therefore in a position to know better. It is, however, a good example of how rapidly, after the advent of "sound", the history of cinema began to be rewritten in a way that greatly exaggerated the importance of the early US film industry and which came to regard the silent era (forty years of film history, my God!
