Pallid Hues in Clouded Skies (1911) watch online HD

The feeling as this picture closes is indescribable. A man locked in a trunk, a woman in a locked room, unable to open the trunk or herself to escape from the room and the room burning, that is the closing scene. The others show the woman hiding her lover in the trunk and struggling frantically with her husband to prevent his opening it, finally forcing him through the door at the muzzle of a revolver. The effect upon the audience is almost as great as though they saw an actual fire. Perhaps the horrors of the recent holocaust in New York were so fresh that the influence was deeply felt. Few scenes have ever appeared upon the motion picture screen more horrible than this as the trunk rocks with the imprisoned man's struggles to escape and the woman sinks, overcome with the heat and the increasing smoke. It would be difficult to imagine anything more horrible unless the auto de fe of the inquisition were reproduced in all its realism. Perhaps there are some who like this sort of thing, but seems like going backward. - The Moving Picture World, April 15, 1911