LE Fil DE LA VIERGE

A woman dies and leaves her two children without a family. They are thrown out of their home and find themselves alone in the forest. An angel appears and shows them to Saint Mary. The Virgin drops a thread of wool down to the earth which guides the children to the pearly gates where they ring the bell. The gates open and they are surrounded by angels and reunited with their mother .

Title in english: The Virgin's Thread
000:31 “Les petits orphélins.”
The Little Orphans
001:40 “Perdus dans la foret.”
Lost In The Forest
002:10 “Le fil de la vierge.”
The Virgin's Thread
002:32 “Suivez ce fil, et vous verrez votre mere!”
Follow This Thread and It Will Lead You To Your Mother
003:16 “Le fil s’accroche a une sonnette.”
he Thread Winds Itself Around A Bell
003:42 “Et ce fut la porte du paradis qui s’ouvrit!”
And The Gates Of Paradise Open

Louis Feuillade, director of the infamous Les Vampires, was appointed artistic director of the Gaumont Company in 1906 at the suggestion of retiring studio head Alice Guy. Feuillard turned out eighty films a year for Gaumont, but is most remembered for his detective crime serials. Especially popular during World War I, these films romanticised the fantastic exploits of pulp heroes and villains and began to ‘represent people as they are not as they ought to be’.