As a way of further introducing Silent Film director Maurice Tourner to American readers, the periodical Motional Picture News during 1919 announced in effect that 'the imported director would be exported' and while expaining transnational cinema as a historical document in regard to historiography within extratextural duscourse announced "Tourneur Productions to be shown in Belgium". Film houses would be showing the films "The Bluebird", "Prunella", "A Poor Little Rich Girl", "Trilby" and the "Rise of Jenny Craig". It stressed that "The Bluebird" was written written by Maurice Maeterlink, a Belgian playwright of world renown". The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has credited Maeterlink as having belonged to the French Symbolist literary movement. The Festival is preserving the film "White Heather", also directed by Maurice Tourneur during 1919 and previously considered to be a Lost Silent Film. The film stars actress Mabel Ballin.
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