The Woman in White (1912)
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The Woman in White
(director unknown, US 1912, 32 min., 35mm)
The Moonstone
(Frank Hall Crane, US 1915, 77 min., 35mm)
Nineteenth-century “chiller” author and Charles Dickens contemporary Wilkie Collins made a career out of combining social commentary and women in danger in his serialized novels. This made him a perfect source for some of the earliest adaptations in cinema history. In these two preservations from the George Eastman Museum, filmmakers tackle his most famous works. The Woman in White is an escapee from a sanitarium who holds dark secrets and ominous warnings for a young lady betrothed to a baronet. In The Moonstone, a cursed diamond stolen from a temple in India passes from hand to hand, leaving death in its wake.
Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.