 The script for the production was written by Lloyd F. Lonergan , who employed the <unk> ex <unk> dramatic technique in the conclusion of the plot . In film , this is the sudden inheritance and parents finding their children in the theater . The two children , Orilla Smith and Yale Boss , were child actors with prior film experience and did not have any further known connection to the Thanhouser Company after the production . The cameraman , Blair Smith , used a camera rented by the Columbia <unk> Company and had its inventor , Joseph <unk> , assist in the camera 's operation and use . The director of has both been credited to Barry O 'Neil and Lloyd B. Carleton in numerous trade sources . Smith was the first cameraman of the Thanhouser Company , but this film was not the Thanhouser Company 's first subject . Instead , it was The Mad Hermit produced in autumn 1909 and <unk> until August 9 , 1910 . The exact order of the productions is not known , but a work titled <unk> Nancy <unk> was filmed in December 1909 and never released . Certain parts of The Actor 's Children were produced in the last week of February 1910 . 
