. . . overlook the missing sections (the DVD people have ignored many of the perfectly intact Edison pieces--there are 412 in the U.S. Library of Congress collection alone--by their own admission to highlight films missing as much as half their original content to better fit their own preconceived social agendas). While THE SEVEN AGES is not as bad a fragment of such inclusions as THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER, TRAIN WRECKERS, or A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN American POLICEMAN--all of which are missing what appears (from catalog descriptions) to be their most important and exciting scenes, THE SEVEN AGES consists of more the stand-alone type episodes, so the fact that one or two are represented by mere still photos is not as disconcerting as the afore-mentioned travesties on viewer sensibility. (It is bad enough to rent a DVD and get it home and find out it's scratched, the store is closed, and when you go back the next day it's their only copy; or to be down-loading something and a thunderstorm cuts off the power--twice; it's even worse when DVD producers pull similar tricks ON PURPOSE!!). The senior face eating here is a special hoot.
5 Reviews
Quite Simple, But Good-Natured
Snow Leopard24 August 2004
This is quite a simple feature, but it is good-natured enough to be worth seeing, and perhaps even to allow you to share a little bit in the feelings of the characters. Its one strength lies in presenting its main characters in a simple, unaffected light, and thus presenting them as a positive and useful example.
The idea is a simple one, showing a couple and their relationship in "Seven Ages" of their lives. Most of the sequences are bland and unremarkable in themselves, but they are given some life by the portrayal of genuine affection on the part of the performers. As simple as that is, it is noticeable in an era when most film-makers were still learning by trial-and-error how to communicate their characters' feelings, given the limitations of the filming techniques then commonly in use.
The idea is a simple one, showing a couple and their relationship in "Seven Ages" of their lives. Most of the sequences are bland and unremarkable in themselves, but they are given some life by the portrayal of genuine affection on the part of the performers. As simple as that is, it is noticeable in an era when most film-makers were still learning by trial-and-error how to communicate their characters' feelings, given the limitations of the filming techniques then commonly in use.
A cute short from Porter
kobe141311 May 2010
This is a cute short from Edwin S. Porter that brings to life Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" monologue from his play "As You Like It". Presented are seven different scenes of romance, starting with two toddlers kissing to an elderly couple together. Oddly, a homely spinster and her cat are thrown in at the end, following the title card "What Age?".
It is charming to watch the young children and elderly couples interact. Some believe that the film is of one couple throughout their lifetimes. I think that it is seven different couples put together, if only because of the randomness of the lonely lady thrown in at the end. She seems to be there for comedic effect because she pets her cat with a wistful smile without a hint of bitterness.
Overall I give it 4 out of 10 stars.
It is charming to watch the young children and elderly couples interact. Some believe that the film is of one couple throughout their lifetimes. I think that it is seven different couples put together, if only because of the randomness of the lonely lady thrown in at the end. She seems to be there for comedic effect because she pets her cat with a wistful smile without a hint of bitterness.
Overall I give it 4 out of 10 stars.
4 from Edison
Michael_Elliott12 March 2008
Seven Ages, The (1905)
*** (out of 4)
Cute little love story that shows a couple over seven ages in their lives from babies to old folks. There's not too much story here other than the two's love for one another but this comes off quite nicely.
Coney Island at Night (1905)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
The title says it all here but those interesting in seeing Coney Island back in 1905 should find this entertaining.
Little Train Robbery, The (1905)
*** (out of 4)
Porter remakes his own The Great Train Robbery but this time kids are playing the leads in a childish tale of acting out a robbery. While this certainly isn't as good as the film its based on it remains cute throughout with some nice stunts and scenery.
White Caps, The (1905)
*** (out of 4)
Historically interesting film that deals with the vigilante group known as "The White Caps" who were known throughout Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Like the KKK, this group wore white pillows over their faces but instead of attacking race this group went after those who broke moral issues like beating their wives, harming children and other crimes that make for a bad community. This film shows them going after a man who has just beaten his wife.
*** (out of 4)
Cute little love story that shows a couple over seven ages in their lives from babies to old folks. There's not too much story here other than the two's love for one another but this comes off quite nicely.
Coney Island at Night (1905)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
The title says it all here but those interesting in seeing Coney Island back in 1905 should find this entertaining.
Little Train Robbery, The (1905)
*** (out of 4)
Porter remakes his own The Great Train Robbery but this time kids are playing the leads in a childish tale of acting out a robbery. While this certainly isn't as good as the film its based on it remains cute throughout with some nice stunts and scenery.
White Caps, The (1905)
*** (out of 4)
Historically interesting film that deals with the vigilante group known as "The White Caps" who were known throughout Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Like the KKK, this group wore white pillows over their faces but instead of attacking race this group went after those who broke moral issues like beating their wives, harming children and other crimes that make for a bad community. This film shows them going after a man who has just beaten his wife.
children subjects in long standing abuse of childhood forcing sex as an act upon innocence
courenthea15 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
dis-alarming to find that while the innovation of obscura and the ability to record images for an-others non-first hand experience has been mostly a reflection of promoting immorality and worse abuse of towards childhood purity.
recording children choosing to play naturally is not this 7 ages... and the future of the children whom participated wood reveal what now has become the split of self whose divine gift of life is unique to the wholesale distortion of a future of how low empty vessels being used by bodiless beings vying for attention to horror stories...
which lead performances to be life and death scenarios that have increased violence abuse and act training immorality for on screen intensity of real life performances of forced responses to abnormal infamy.
view the fanning children films specifically now released "live by night" and how vampire's theater swiftly consumes the natural purity and beauty quality and talent of unique beings.
s.a.g. seems to be not preventing and promoting and while the cinema preservation of advances in film are noteworthy the content should swiftly be edited for and eliminated especially of all writers directors photographers who participate in American cinema to perpetuated the wholesale proliferation and thus reduce talent to pornography.
any blacklist threatened in IMDb conditions for honest evaluation by competent eye of discernment by photographer.... may also implicate IMDb in participating in promoting the increased continued abuses of art for merely sexual slavery exploitations and subsequent death scenarios that all actors do not naturally survive!
recording children choosing to play naturally is not this 7 ages... and the future of the children whom participated wood reveal what now has become the split of self whose divine gift of life is unique to the wholesale distortion of a future of how low empty vessels being used by bodiless beings vying for attention to horror stories...
which lead performances to be life and death scenarios that have increased violence abuse and act training immorality for on screen intensity of real life performances of forced responses to abnormal infamy.
view the fanning children films specifically now released "live by night" and how vampire's theater swiftly consumes the natural purity and beauty quality and talent of unique beings.
s.a.g. seems to be not preventing and promoting and while the cinema preservation of advances in film are noteworthy the content should swiftly be edited for and eliminated especially of all writers directors photographers who participate in American cinema to perpetuated the wholesale proliferation and thus reduce talent to pornography.
any blacklist threatened in IMDb conditions for honest evaluation by competent eye of discernment by photographer.... may also implicate IMDb in participating in promoting the increased continued abuses of art for merely sexual slavery exploitations and subsequent death scenarios that all actors do not naturally survive!
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