The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
After being expelled from college, Giles runs away from home and meets and falls for a young lady.
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"This is a quaint early feature film of 54 minutes which is apparently the earliest surviving film directed by the French director Maurice Tourneur. The subtitle of the film is 'An Idyll of Old England', and it pretends to be shot there, but it was in fact made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, after Tourneur was recruited because of his talent and experience to leave France and go to America to boost their film industry. Vivian Martin plays Sally Thorne, a 'village maiden', and there are plenty of other 'maidens' about as well. It is all very fey. Near the village the main..."
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The film was thought to have been lost but a 16mm print of the film was rediscovered by film historian Kevin Brownlow in England. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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After being expelled from college, Giles runs away from home and meets and falls for a young lady.