Ethel Clayton and Harry Myers may be the only recognizable players in this Kalem romantic comedy about farmers courting in the Maine countryside, but that doesn't mean that the story is about them. It's about the two older farmers trying to woo Ethel's aunt, who owns the successful farm.
Even that isn't the point of the movie for me; it's the lovely bucolic images of the haying and the husking bee, photographed by Kalem's cameramen. Kalem may never have led the industry in terms of technique, but their history as manufacturers, first of lenses and then of photographic equipment, meant that they always knew how to shoot their images to best advantage, and that's what they do here.
Even that isn't the point of the movie for me; it's the lovely bucolic images of the haying and the husking bee, photographed by Kalem's cameramen. Kalem may never have led the industry in terms of technique, but their history as manufacturers, first of lenses and then of photographic equipment, meant that they always knew how to shoot their images to best advantage, and that's what they do here.