This picture will appeal very strongly to spectators who take pleasure in what is artistic. It contains something very fresh, a decided advance in the art of making motion pictures and one that we hope will be widely used; for it is a most emphatic success. We refer to its making the scenes seem to be moving illustrations in a book as an advance. We have seen one or two pictures in which this happy conceit was used; but we have seen none that has used it in just this way or to this extent. We think that, if this method of making photoplays were generally followed, it would benefit the quality of the pictures very much. It would make scene-composition much more difficult. The man who can make perfect scenes in this way, especially inside pictures, will prove himself in very truth an artist. We notice that out of the perhaps dozen scenes so shown in this picture there is only one in which the composition is poor. As for the others, we can't praise them too highly. Every moving picture is either an illustration of a story or it seems, not something that is made, but the actual happening. At first this seems foolish; but scenes often are so natural in acting, setting and general management that we forget that we are looking at a picture. On the other hand, if there is anything artificial in any scene, the very fact that it is always striving to seem natural makes the fault stand out. While the fact that it is confessedly an illustration would help to hide the fault. It would seem that historical pictures and all delicate, poetic romances, for instance, would be better shown as illustrations, while realistic pictures of modern life would be better where the aim is to make them seem wholly natural. Coming back to this picture which tells the story of the Redskin's appeal, we commend it for itself, aside from the artistic way in which it is presented. It is a very well-acted picture, especially the leading lady. It is a more than ordinarily desirable release. - The Moving Picture World, June 29, 1912
