This early Thanhouser production demonstrates a lot of issues with the early products of this production company. While Griffith at Biograph was developing a new style of acting and Edison and Vitagraph's staff were working on editing techniques that would remake film into its own medium, Thanhouser, at this stage, was stuck with stagebound actors, long proscenium-arch compositions and lack of titles to aid the imagination.
There is one slight upward pan to shift the focus from the school matron arguing with a man to show the girl escaping from a window, and another sideways pan to shift the focus of the shot, but they are done slowly and clumsily. The story itself relies largely on stage makeup and is unconvincing, although the audience of the time almost certainly accepted it. Today, this piece is a curiosity.
There is one slight upward pan to shift the focus from the school matron arguing with a man to show the girl escaping from a window, and another sideways pan to shift the focus of the shot, but they are done slowly and clumsily. The story itself relies largely on stage makeup and is unconvincing, although the audience of the time almost certainly accepted it. Today, this piece is a curiosity.
