The Death Of The Flowers (1925)

Full title reads: “The Death of the Flowers - A Pictorial Interpretation of verses from the famous poem by William Cullen Bryant“ Pathecolor (sic) item - early stencil colour. Begins with the intertitle: “The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.“ Coloured scene of clouds in the sky - very pretty combination of mauve, orange and yellow. Dissolve into shot of a barren landscape - a meadow presumably. “Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?“ C/U of flowers - possibly heather - coloured pink and green. Another shot of flowering plants - pink and yellow. Dissolve into C/U of coloured daisies. Dissolve into a C/U of lovely orange flower. “Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours.“ L/S of pink flowers beside a wall. “And then I think of one who