436:(1909) is her most well-known. She formed her own production company to have control over the screen adaptations of her works, as well as those by other family-friendly authors. After her unexpected death in 1922, her daughter Jeanette Stratton-Porter took over, following her mother's original conception. She hand-picked screenwriters, directors (including husband,
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Balzart and Cinnamon Stephens. A newly commissioned score was written by Dr. Philip Carli. Meanwhile, the film's intertitles were changed back to the English ones from the lone French print using an original copy of the script that Ahern still possessed. In addition, a 50-minute
527:. Owing to very complex issues of copyright, a Blu-ray release of the film, with several bonus features, was delayed until the film enters the public domain. It does so on January 1, 2023. After screenings at silent film festivals throughout 2023, the Blu-Ray release of the film will follow.
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was made in 2016, and in 2018 a 7,000 word assessment of the film by Crouse appeared as well as a commentary track recorded of Ahern discussing the film and aspects of her silent film career. Among those who championed the restoration were
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Archive in Paris. Through a crowd source funding campaign, a digital copy of it was made by film preservationist Eric
Grayson, and work on restoring the movie was performed by Grayson, Thad Komorowski, and
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