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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1560

Falling Leaves

191212 minUnited States

Synopsis

A child hears that her sick sister will die when the last leaf falls and takes the warning literally. Her attempt to tie leaves back onto the trees attracts a doctor who may be able to help the family.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 13:16
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Alice Guy-Blaché · Public domain

Cast

Mace Greenleaf

Blanche Cornwall

Marian Swayne

Magda Foy

Darwin Karr

DirectorsAlice Guy-Blaché

Inspirations

The story echoes O. Henry's The Last Leaf while giving the child an active role. Alice Guy-Blaché uses the misunderstanding to connect a simple gesture with the adults' medical crisis.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

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Blanche Cornwall — Uncredited; https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturesto04moti#page/n189/mode/2up · Public domain
Marian Swayne — Fanark Corporation / Pioneer Film Corporation; Exhibitors Herald (Oct. - Dec. 1920) on the Internet Archive · Public domain

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