False Colors (1914 film) explained

False Colors
Director:	Lois Weber Phillips Smalley
Starring:	Lois Weber Phillips Smalley
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	4 reels; 32 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

False Colors, also known as False Colours, is a surviving 1914 American silent drama film directed, written by and starring Lois Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley. Weber plays dual roles of a mother and her daughter.

Cast

• Lois Weber as Mrs. Moore / Her daughter Flo
• Phillips Smalley as Lloyd Phillips
• Dixie Carr as Dixie Phillips
• Adele Farrington as Mrs. Hughes, housekeeper
• Charles Marriott as Butler (Mr. Hughes)
• Courtenay Foote as Bert Hughes, son of Butler and Housekeeper
• Herbert Standing as Marc Herbert

Production

Double exposures are used in the film to indicate transitions in scenes where Lloyd dreams of his dead wife, played by Weber, followed by the entrance of the daughter Flo, also played by Weber.^[1] Later, after his affection has shifted to his daughter, he sees Flo's image superimposed over a picture of his wife.^[2]

Preservation status

A partial print of False Colors consisting of two reels is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• List of Paramount Pictures films

External links

• • • David Boardwell (2017), Observations on Film Art: Anybody But Griffith, 15 stills in lower half of article

Notes and References

1. Mayer . Ruth . Unique Doubles: Ornamental Sisters and Dual Roles in the Transitional Era Cinema . Journal of Cinema and Media Studies . 27–30 . University of Texas Press . 2020 . registration . 0009-7101 . 2020-03-24.
2. Book: Stamp, Shelley . Lois Weber in Early Hollywood . University of California Press . 2015 . Oakland, California . 55–57 . 978-0-520-24152-7.
3. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 54, c.1978, American Film Institute
4. http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1812/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: False Colours