Director: George Pearson
Release Date: January 1922
An unseen film. On 8 September 1921 Kinematograph Weekly reported that ‘many of the most famous spots in London have been made use of for exterior scenes, Piccadilly Circus, The Tower, Liverpool Street, Regent’s Park, Finsbury Park and Epping Forest. For one scene Betty Balfour, who has the heroine’s part, dressed up as a coster girl, sat among the flower sellers in Piccadilly Circus, and sold twenty-two shillings worth of flowers in about fifteen minutes to customers, who failed to notice the camera concealed in a taxi.’ The Stage, 22 September, elaborated by mentioning scenes at ‘Finsbury Park Lake’ and the ‘Zoo.’ Unfortunately in his autobiography Flashback (1957) the director, George Pearson, only discusses filming in Piccadilly Circus, pp95-97. However, he does mention that a scene was filmed in ‘a large empty yard’, p96, which adjoined Rose Cottage, Vicars Moor Lane, Winchmore Hill.
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Presumably a photograph taken during filming showing Betty Balfour sitting on the steps to the Eros Statue, Piccadilly Circus. Taken from George Pearson's autobiography.
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A second photograph from Pearson's autobiography showing Balfour and Fred Groves. This is probably the scene filmed at Vicars Moor Lane.
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The same photograph as it appeared in Kinematograph Weekly, 8 September 1921.