THE ACTOR'S CHILDREN was the first production of the Thanhouser Company and, for the era, it is technically advanced, with excellent filmic staging -- if a trifle stolid in terms of camera placement -- decent acting and a nice bit of a story -- too much story for thirteen minutes, truth be told, as an actor's play closes and comes home to find his children gone, when suddenly a relative dies and leave him a lot of money..... all courtesy of longtime Thanhouser writer and brother-in-law Lloyd Lonergan. The film makes use of the then-current method of titles as chapter headings, a technique that would continue for another two or three years.
Thanhouser got off to a fast start, sending copies of this film out to dealers on speculation, which caused them to write back that they had existing relationships with distributors, all part of the one-year-old Patents Trust. Thanhouser's ambition would get the better of him in short order, but he produced some remarkably advanced pictures and this one presages some interesting work.
Thanhouser got off to a fast start, sending copies of this film out to dealers on speculation, which caused them to write back that they had existing relationships with distributors, all part of the one-year-old Patents Trust. Thanhouser's ambition would get the better of him in short order, but he produced some remarkably advanced pictures and this one presages some interesting work.