The Leopard's Spots (1918)
01 Jul 1918 • Short • 0h 2m
This late production from Hepworth's studio was released by the Ministry of Information in the summer of 1918. After showing some German soldiers with smoking blunderbusses seizing a baby from its Belgian mothers and dashing it to the ground, we see them fade into civilian clothes and invading an English village with a sauce pot to sell. Fortunately the woman who's buying inspects the pot and calls a policeman to eject the Huns. Clearly the Ministry of Information had its eye on the post-war era and wished to encourage British manufacture.... and to offer the message to its audience that, yes, this war would end some day.In terms of story construction, acting and sets, this is a very primitive production for 1918. Its editing is a bit more advanced than during Hepworth's heyday, but not by much. Hepworth would continue to turn out movies for another eight years, but clearly his technique had not advanced and the American studios would prosper off his old-fashioned techniques.
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