False Colors (1914 film)

False Colors
Directed by	Lois Weber; Phillips Smalley
Written by	Lois Weber; Phillips Smalley
Starring	Lois Weber; Phillips Smalley
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 17, 1914;
Running time	4 reels; 32 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

False Colors, also known as False Colours, is a surviving 1914 American silent drama film directed, written by and starring Lois Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley. Weber plays dual roles of a mother and her daughter.

Cast

Lois Weber as Mrs. Moore / Her daughter Flo
Phillips Smalley as Lloyd Phillips
Dixie Carr as Dixie Phillips
Adele Farrington as Mrs. Hughes, housekeeper
Charles Marriott as Butler (Mr. Hughes)
Courtenay Foote as Bert Hughes, son of Butler and Housekeeper
Herbert Standing as Marc Herbert

Production

Double exposures are used in the film to indicate transitions in scenes where Lloyd dreams of his dead wife, played by Weber, followed by the entrance of the daughter Flo, also played by Weber.[1] Later, after his affection has shifted to his daughter, he sees Flo's image superimposed over a picture of his wife.[2]

Preservation status

A partial print of False Colors consisting of two reels is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[3][4]

References

Mayer, Ruth (2020). "Unique Doubles: Ornamental Sisters and Dual Roles in the Transitional Era Cinema". Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. University of Texas Press: 27–30. ISSN 0009-7101. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
Stamp, Shelley (2015). Lois Weber in Early Hollywood. Oakland, California: University of California Press. pp. 55–57. ISBN 978-0-520-24152-7.
Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 54, c.1978, American Film Institute
Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: False Colours

External links

False Colors at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
David Boardwell (2017), Observations on Film Art: Anybody But Griffith, 15 stills in lower half of article

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[1] Mayer, Ruth (2020). "Unique Doubles: Ornamental Sisters and Dual Roles in the Transitional Era Cinema". Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. University of Texas Press: 27–30. ISSN 0009-7101. Retrieved 2020-03-24.

[2] Stamp, Shelley (2015). Lois Weber in Early Hollywood. Oakland, California: University of California Press. pp. 55–57. ISBN 978-0-520-24152-7.

[3] Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 54, c.1978, American Film Institute

[4] Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: False Colours