The Chief's Talisman (1911) User Reviews

The grandmother and the girl are kept on the film while the story is told

[deickemeyer · 16 January 2016]

This is an interesting tale told to a little girl who asked her grandmother for a story. A picture of an Indian chief is hanging on the wall and the story is of this picture. The grandmother and the girl are kept on the film while the story is told. This is a much more realistic way of telling such a tale, than to tell it with the story teller hidden. It shows a story of a great chief who revered the cross and of his successor who went back to the old beliefs. The Christian chief gave the talisman to the girl's grandfather, a missionary. The new chief attacks the grandfather's cabin and takes it. In the cabin the talisman hangs and the new chief dare not harm the family, for it seems alive to him. - The Moving Picture World, May 6, 1911