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Clip description
A year after Cherry Carson (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’) and her father (Gaston Mervale) have hidden at a remote farm, Peter Lawton (Paul Longuet) tracks her down. Peter is aghast at Cherry’s living conditions, and Cherry is upset by what she sees as invasion of her father’s privacy.
Note: The original aspect ratio is 1.33:1 (Academy full frame). The print of The Far Paradise obtained by the NFSA had been incorrectly duplicated at an 1.37:1 (Academy) ratio, which has cut approximately 3mm off the top and left-hand side off the frame.
Curator’s notes
Those Who Love (1926) and The Far Paradise tell riches-to-rags stories in which the protagonists respectively abandon wealth and fall from wealth to poverty. In The Far Paradise James and Cherry Carson plunge from lives as wealthy city dwellers to a wretched existence as rural outcasts. Blaming Peter and his father for James Carson’s downfall, Cherry has cut all ties with Peter and devotes herself to looking after her father. Just how far the Carsons have fallen is symbolised by a close-up of Cherry’s work-stained hands dissolving to a flashback of her hands toying with a rose at a society ball.
