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Title Fanchon the Cricket
Published Flicker Alley, 1915
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary Based on the 1863 novel LA PETITE FADETTE by George Sand, Mary Pickford plays Fanchon, a young woman who lives in the woods with her grandmother who is reputed to be a witch. The village children snub Fanchon because of her grandmother's reputation and her own unkempt appearance. In turn, Fanchon plays pranks on the children. At a May Day picnic, she first frightens and then intrigues Landry, the son of a rich merchant. After Fanchon saves Landry's idiot brother Didier from mistreatment and rescues Landry himself from drowning, Landry professes his love. He tells his parents that he wants to marry Fanchon, but they want him to wed the priggish Madelon. Although she longs for love, Fanchon proudly tells Landry she will not marry him until his father asks her. This edition of FANCHON THE CRICKET was restored through a unique partnership between the Pickford Foundation and the Cinematheque Francaise, who held a 35mm print of the film. An incomplete nitrate print was preserved at the British Film Institute and, with their cooperation, L’ Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory in Italy photochemically and digitally restored the film, using the highest quality available elements, scanning the film onto 4K high definition. The missing English intertitles were reconstructed by translating from the French on the dupe negative. The Mary Pickford Foundation commissioned a new score by Julian Ducatenzeiler and Andy Gladbach
Notes Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Performer Gertrude Norman, Jack Pickford, Jack Standing, Lottie Pickford, Mary Pickford, Richard Lee, Russell Bassett
Event Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1915
Notes In English
Subject Gender identity.
Motion pictures.
Drama.
sex role.
plays (performing arts compositions)
Drama.
Gender identity.
Motion pictures.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Kirkwood, James, film director
Norman, Gertrude, actor
Pickford, Jack, actor
Standing, Jack, actor
Pickford, Lottie, actor
Pickford, Mary, actor
Lee, Richard, actor
Bassett, Russell, actor
Flicker Alley (Firm)
Kanopy (Firm)