The reception of this film by the public fully justified the advance notice given in last week's Moving Picture World. It is, as should be, a series of moving pictures and not a moving picture record. The composition of the scenes in this film are so well thought out that every little section that goes to make up the hundreds of exposures forms a complete picture that could be painted by an artist. What we mean by composition is this: The arranging of the scenery, properties and actors in their proper relation to the picture and that each unit takes its place and forms an agreeable whole, according to the accepted principles of art. The lighting and photography in this film is an object lesson to be studied by beginners in the field. There is just one thing in the whole ensemble that did not meet our taste, and that was the heroic size of the figures in one or two scenes. Seen on a large screen such as Keith & Proctor's, the effect of figures of men and women nine and ten feet high was hardly in keeping with the exquisite taste otherwise displayed in the production. - The Moving Picture World, October 9, 1909
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