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- The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
- An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
- The scene is laid in one of the trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company and the young factor, Malcolm Young, loves Utoka, the pretty daughter of the chief of a nearby tribe. Jules Laprese also loves the girl and the half-breed hates Malcolm as much as he loves the pretty Indian maiden. Only Utoka's watchfulness saves the young factor's life on several occasions and this loving care is relaxed only when Jules brings her a letter and photograph which he has stolen from the factor. The picture is that of a beautiful young white girl and the loving message that accompanies it leaves small room for question of the factor's lack of good faith. Utoka is prostrated by grief and Jules leads her father to believe that a more serious wrong has been wrought by the head of the trading post. With his braves the old chief captures the factor and drags him, a prisoner, to the camp where Malcolm is put to torture before the fire is to mercilessly end his sufferings. Meanwhile Utoka, who cannot believe her lover guilty, seeks the post and discovers what has taken place. With the good father, the missionary who keeps pace with the advance of the Hudson Bay posts, Utoka returns to the camp and saves the life of the factor. He proves that the letter was from his sister and not from some sweetheart in Montreal and the half-breed is made to suffer punishment for the affront he has put upon the tribe.
- Ramona is a little orphan of the great Spanish household of Moreno. Alessandro, the Indian, arrives at the Camulos ranch with his sheep-shearers, showing his first meeting with Ramona. There is at once a feeling of interest noticeable between them which ripens into love. This Senora Moreno, her foster mother, endeavors to crush, with poor success, until she forces a separation by exiling Alessandro from the ranch. He goes back to his native village to find the white men devastating the place and scattering his people. The Senora, meanwhile, has told Ramona that she herself has Indian blood, which induces her to renounce her present world and go to Alessandro. They are married and he finds still a little shelter left from the wreckage. Here they live until the whites again appear and drive them off, claiming the land. From place to place they journey, only to be driven further until finally death comes to Alessandro just as aid comes in the person of Felipe, the Senora's son, who takes Ramona back to Camulos.
- Film "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" based on the novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
- An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.
- This is a pathetic subject, showing the devotion of a dumb animal for its mistress. A young girl is living in the country in an endeavor to regain her fast failing health, and makes a pet of little lamb. The two become inseparable, and one day when the girl falls in a swoon the intelligent animal runs home and by its frantic actions attracts attention and leads assistance to its mistress. The condition of the girl getting worse, she goes back to town, and to her amazement discovers her faithful pet has run along behind the carriage all the way. The girl finally passes away, and as she breathes her last in an arm chair her four-footed companion is seen with its head in her lap looking up with almost human comprehension.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- The story of Ononko's Vow is a pretty love tale through which is intertwined the story of an Indian's fidelity to his promise. The prologue takes place during the course of the Bloody Brook Massacre when an Indian chief, one of the rescuing party, saves a young Puritan, Jonathan Smith, from the tomahawk of a hostile Indian. Ungagook is the name of this chief, and he is accompanied by his little ten-year-old son, Ononko. Ungagook unknown to Smith receives his death wound in rescuing the latter. Together the chief and his son come to the house of Smith and as they see him safely to his door the colonist's young wife expresses her thanks to Ungagook. The chief makes a gesture which is intended to convey the Idea that he thinks lightly of what he has done, and immediately thereafter betrays the fact that he is mortally hurt. He expires in the home of Smith, but before doing so has his little son Ononko promise fidelity to the family in whose house his spirit goes to the Great Manitou. Twenty-eight years later we see how Ononko, now a vigorous young brave, keeps the pledge which he made his father in the years gone by. Deerfield has been sacked. Jonathan Smith and his daughter Ruth, who has just been affianced to Ebenezer Dow, are driven before the tomahawks and flintlocks of the Indians. Dow has gone for assistance, managing to evade the raiders, and the rescuing party comes from the settlement below. Jonathan Smith is saved by a trapper, but his daughter Ruth is among the colonists who are being taken on across the meadow toward Pine Hill and thence to Canada. Ononko has seen the light in the sky from the village below and has hastened with the relieving party of colonists and Narragansett Indians to the scene. He enters the room where the colonists had stoutly defended themselves but where most of them were massacred. Failing to find his friend he seeks him without, and meets him as he is leaving the awful scene of carnage. Learning from the father that his daughter is among the retreating Indians, Ononko promises to seek for her and bring her back to the grieving old man. The story ends in his successfully carrying out his promise. After the rescue, which is accomplished in a most thrilling manner, we see the young colonist and his bride-to-be approaching the edge of the settlement under the guidance of the tall young chief of the Narragansetts. Behind them walks their friend, the trapper. Ononko stands at the edge of the forest and points toward the settlement below. The three others pass him and turn to bid him good-bye, first asking him to proceed with them into the village. Ononko refuses. Why? Perhaps because in the breast of the handsome savage some gentle thought of the girl he has saved has entered: but his nobility of character permits him to entertain the thought only for a fleeting moment. When Ruth was in captivity she was protected from the snow only by the woolen dress she wore. On the homeward march Ononko had given her his blanket to keep her warm. As he bids Ebenezer and his pretty fiancée farewell Ruth offers Ononko his blanket, which she is wearing. The young chief prettily presents it to Ebenezer and places it across the shoulders of the girl. After accepting the gift the young people go to their home, their trapper friend accompanying them. Ononko stands contemplating the settlement below him. What his thoughts may be the observer is left to imagine. At the finish of the film we again see Mr. Sheldon bidding good-bye to the two young people who have been visiting his town.
- The next time Jenks purchases a new hat he will have it screwed to his pate so that he and the lid will be absolutely inseparable, for his most recently procured Kelly cost him both money and trouble in abundance. On his way to his office one morning, he decides to get a new straw hat. With his bead topped with this new crown he looks quite debonair. Lunch-time arriving, he goes to appease the cravings of his pneumo-gastric nerve, and here his trouble begins when an exchange of hats is made, someone taking his new sky piece leaving in its stead a woolly creation of masculine millinery, with a surface like a bath mat. Towering with rage, he returns to his office, where he receives a telegram calling him out of town in a hurry on business. Dispatching word to his wife he hustles off. Meanwhile, the purloiner of his lid, while walking along the seashore loses it overboard, and it is carried out to sea to be driven back on the shore by the returning tide, where it is picked up by a neighbor of Jenks, who finding the name and address on the band, takes it to whom he now assumes to be Widow Jenks, a most natural conclusion. Instanter the mourning of the dear departed (?) is precipitated. Fancy his surprise and their amazement when he returns. It is with difficulty he persuades all hands that he is material and not ethereal. The undertaker, however, is insistent and Jenks pays for a funeral he hadn't the chance of enjoying.
- A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again and tells her they cannot marry until he has enough money to pay off his debt. While the farmer and his wife are asleep, the maid foolishly steals their money. The peddler takes the money and leaves on a train to get out of town. Overcome with guilt, the young maid runs away from the farm. Meanwhile the peddler gets into a fight and is thrown off the train. The maid stumbles upon him by the railroad tracks. She finds the money on the peddler and returns it to the farm couple before they even knew it was missing.
- Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by gaining the group's trust and bringing them into a trap.
- 191011mUnrated5.7 (532)ShortA frantic child reports to the tribal chief that her father killed her mother. The tribe chases and captures the man, dragging him back for tribal justice.
- Anna, a young girl from a poor but honest household, is offered an attractive position as a lady's companion in London. Her childhood friend is worried, but she goes anyway.
- Left a penniless orphan at 14, Jane Eyre is adopted by her uncle, who has ample means to provide for her and also loves her dearly. Her uncle's family considers her an intruder and do all in their power to prevent her from becoming a full member of their family, but during his lifetime she receives some degree of kindness and consideration. Unfortunately, he dies and leaves her without a friend in the world and his unfeeling widow sends her to a badly-run orphan asylum. Five years later she leaves the asylum to accept the position of governess to Lord Rochester's little niece, daughter of his late brother. Her mother has become insane and is living in Lord Rochester's home under his protection. Jane is engaged by Lord Rochester's housekeeper during his absence from home, and her first meeting with her employer is both exciting and romantic. She is sitting by the edge of the road reading when Lord Rochester rides up to his ancestral home. The sight of his huge dog, coming upon her suddenly, so startles Jane that she jumps to her feet, causing Lord Rochester's horse to shy and throw it rider. He injures his ankle, and has to be assisted to remount "the little witch," as he calls her, who is the cause of his accident. That same evening in his home, he is surprised to find that "the little witch" of his adventure is living in his house as his niece's governess. Jane's rich relations, the Reeds, visit Lord Rochester, and persistently insult and humiliate her by treating her like a servant. Lord Rochester, however, is not blind to her sweetness, nor to the cruelty of her cousin, who is trying to win Lord Rochester's hand and fortune. One evening the maniac escapes from her nurse and sets fire to the room in which Lord Rochester has fallen asleep. He is saved from a horrible death by Jane. When next Jane's haughty aunt and cousins call on Lord Rochester, they are just in time to be introduced to his bride, who is none other than the despised Jane Eyre.
- Based on the story by Charles Dickens: Ebenezer Scrooge is well known for his harsh, miserly ways, until he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and then by three other spirits.
- Hiram Brown and his family decide to emigrate to the west and cast their lot in the then-almost uninhabited country known as Minnesota, leaving their improvised home on the Ohio River. They started on their long journey in old fashioned covered wagons. Two months later, they reach the Mississippi River; being in the early fall the water was low and easily forded upon their landing. They camp for the night. Indians not relishing the invasion of the pale face watch them under cover of darkness, the Indian village nearby give the family warning to move on, but this the sturdy farmer refuses to do and is seen cultivating with his team of oxen. An Indian girl (a spy) under the guise of selling Indian wares, is admitted to the camp, gaining the information she sought, reports quickly tribesmen, who resolve upon decisive action at once. In the meantime Spotted Eagle has formed an attachment for one of Brown's daughters. A plan of complete capture of the family is arranged and carried out with all the cunning and fearlessness that characterized the American Indian of that period. They take their captives to the village where they are tied to the stake. A trapper taking his life in his hands, runs the gauntlet, mounts a running horse and hurls the Indian to the ground (a sensational scene in the extreme). The young girl who had previously warned the camp of Indian uprising is seen making her way to the military post to report the capture. When the soldiers reach the Brown camp, they find the settler that had made good his escape on Indian horse and who guided them to the village where a spectacular rescue of the prisoners is affected and again reunited.
- 19101h 40mNot Rated5.8 (143)Billed as the "Fight of the Century", reigning champion Jack Johnson takes on former champion James J. Jeffries in a gruelling 15-round beatdown.
- A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
- PART I. The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and lending up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. Tom is a peculiarly extraordinary character, possessing all the virtues and none of the bad qualities of his race, a possession brought about by a gradual realization, absorption and practice of Christian principles through a close study of the Bible. To the Shelbys he is an invaluable asset, because of his honesty and trustworthiness. Mr. Shelby, although owner of vast estates, has become greatly involved in debt, as is often the case with aristocracy. His notes have come into the hands of a slave trader named Haley, who presses Shelby for money long overdue. While visiting Shelby on one of his periodic "duns," he agrees to purchase "Uncle Tom" and Harry, a child of a quadroon, Eliza, Mrs. Shelby's maid. It is a hard bargain, but necessity, which is apt to drive to extremes, succumbs and the deal is made. Eliza overhears the transaction, and, loving her child with all her heart, decides to flee with him to the Ohio side of the river. She escapes from the house during the night, goes to "Uncle Tom's" cabin and tells him and his wife, "Aunt Chloe," all about her trouble, and also that Tom has been sold to the slave dealer, and advises him to get away while there is yet time. Tom, feeling it his bounden duty to live up to the tenets of his sale as well as his own conscience, refuses, but blesses Eliza and wishes her Godspeed. When Haley discovers the flight of Eliza he is frantic, and, calling into service some of Shelby's slaves and the ever-ready bloodhounds, he starts in pursuit of his prey. Eliza has made her way with her dear Harry clasped to her bosom to the banks of the Ohio River in a driving snowstorm, with the piercing cold winds carrying the baying of the bloodhounds to her ears as they follow mercilessly in her tracks. The ferryboats are not running, and the boatmen who usually ply their traffic across the river are afraid to encounter the fierce storm and the ice floes at the risk of their produce and their own lives. Spurred on by mother love and courage born of liberty and protection of the helpless, Eliza unhesitatingly jumps down the river's bank onto a large cake of floating ice, which rafts her down the stream, then from one piece of ice to another she leaps like a deer until she reaches the Ohio side of the river, where she is assisted up the bank and seeks shelter for herself and child. Haley and his negro aides are baffled in the capture of their quarry. Haley is furious, the negroes delighted, and while Haley goes to the tavern to appease his wrath the darkies show their pleasure in fits of laughter, and return to the Shelby place to report Eliza's escape. Haley, after a night of it in company with Marks, the lawyer, and Tom Rorer, a human bloodhound, goes back to take possession of "Uncle Tom," by the sale of whom he hopes to make up the loss of Harry. Uncle Tom, after a last farewell to his wife and little pickaninnies, and a hearty good-bye from young "Mars" George Shelby, who promises he will purchase "Tom" himself some day, gets into Haley's wagon, shackled hand and foot, with a sad heart but Christian resignation, bids farewell forever to his old Kentucky home. PART II. Haley, with Uncle Tom and his other slaves, boards the steamboat and starts down the Mississippi for Louisiana. On the boat going home from a visit to Vermont is Mr. Augustine St. Clare with his little daughter, Eva, a beautiful child of delicate temperament, and a maiden aunt named "Miss Ophelia." On the way down the river poor Tom makes himself helpful and cheerfully obliging to everybody, lending a hand with the freight and saying a kind and courteous word whenever spoken to. Whenever he can find time he reads in his laboring way his Bible, which is a source of great comfort to him. Eva is especially attracted to Tom. He has his pocket stored with odd toys of his own manufacture, which furnishes her great amusement during the long and tedious progress of the boat. One day Eva falls overboard. Uncle Tom with unhesitating courage jumps into the river and brings her safely back to the boat. This cements her attachment for Tom. She begs her father to buy him for her own. The father, always ready to satisfy her every wish, makes a deal with Haley, and Tom is purchased for Eva, who makes him her companion and attendant. "Miss Ophelia," although a northerner, is shocked at the readiness with which Eva associates and confides in Tom, but as she learns afterward it is not misplaced and well deserved. The St. Clares arrive at their home in New Orleans. Tom is initiated as a member of the household, and while officially the coachman he is personally the bodyguard of Eva and he is her confidant fides achates. We can see the sensitive nature and constitution of the child gradually succumb to the climatic changes and the rackings of the severe cough and cold which has settled upon her lungs. Her father decides to move the family and household to his country home where he hopes Eva will improve and get well. It is here we are introduced to "Topsy," a coal black little negress whom St. Clare buys for "Miss Ophelia" to call her own and bring up in the way she would have her go. From this time on to the close of the film "Topsy" is a noticeable and amusing person. For two years Uncle Tom's life with the St. Clares is an uninterrupted dream, excepting the thoughts of his separation from his dear old wife and his children. After two years little Eva's illness becomes so bad she appears to be undergoing a process of translation and looks more like a vision of immortality in the midst of mortal things. Often she talks with Uncle Tom about Heaven with an understanding that makes Tom think, and everybody else for that matter, that she is not long for this world. These suppositions are well founded, for it is not long before Eva is seen on her bed surrounded by her parents, Aunt Ophelia, Uncle Tom and the servants of the family. She bids each one good-bye, giving each some little keepsake, then peacefully passes away to join the other angels in Heaven. PART III. The sorrow following the death of little Eva has scarcely passed when the house of St. Clare is again thrown into mourning by the death of Mr. St. Clare, who was stabbed while trying to stop a quarrel between two men. Mr. St. Clare had promised Uncle Tom his freedom, in anticipation of which he is inspired with new hope and great ambition to work for the liberation of his wife and children, but all this is doomed by his master's untimely end, and all the servants of the St. Clare place are sold to speculators and other masters. Tom is sold to Legree, who is brutal in the extreme, and treats poor Tom with little less consideration than a dog. Legree has established as his mistress Cassie, a quadroon slave, whom he treats as badly as he dares, for she has a strong influence over him and despises him with a heartiness that she cannot hide. One day, working in the cotton field, Cassie meets Uncle Tom, and is impressed by his generosity and gentleness of spirit and his all-abiding faith in God. At the same time Legree bought Tom he bid on a young mulatto girl named Emmeline, whom he also introduced into his household to displace Cassie, whom he tries to relegate again to the cotton picking rank of slaves. Emmeline likes Cassie, abhors Legree, and keeps as far from him as possible. Tom is subjected to every sort of indignation and uncomplainingly does his duty. It is not until he is asked to flog a poor slave girl that he refuses to obey his master, and is himself unmercifully whipped by Legree and two of his slaves. Cassie finds life with Legree unbearable, and hates him with an indescribable intensity. She plans to accomplish escape for herself and Emmeline, and asks Uncle Tom to go with them, but he refuses to leave while others suffer for no more reason than himself. Cassie plays upon Legree's superstition and fear, for, in reality, he is an arrant coward, and she makes him believe there are ghosts in the garret of his house, and when she and Emmeline take flight and he pursues them with bloodhounds and slaves, the women retrace their steps, after passing through the swamp to throw the dogs off the trail, and return to the garret, where they remain for three days and make good their escape when favorable opportunity presents itself after Legree has given them up as gone. Legree, filled with rage, for want of better excuse accuses Uncle Tom of knowing something about Cassies escape and being party to it. Tom denies that he had any hand in it, and refuses to reveal his knowledge of it. Legree vents his spite and cussedness by administering a severe beating to Tom and felling him with a savage blow. Young Shelby, who promised Tom at the time his father sold him to Haley that he would repurchase him as soon as he could, now comes to Legree's place to buy him back. Too late! Poor Tom has gone to his eternal freedom to dwell with his Master, who makes no distinction in color, creed or class and prepareth a place for all those who love Him and keep His Commandments, and of whom Tom was a faithful disciple. - The Moving Picture World, August 6, 1910
- Appearances are deceiving and circumstantial evidence should be taken with caution. In this Biograph subject, the circumstances were apparently very compromising. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are about to start on a hurried trip. Mrs. Jones writes a note to her friend and neighbor, Mrs. Young, asking her to feed the bird every day during her absence. Mr. Jones writes to his friend, Mr. Hall, bidding him to enjoy the use of his library during the while. Mrs. Young is possessed of a jealous dispositioned hubby, while Mr. Hall's wife is similarly sensitive. Mrs. Young and Mr. Hall go to Jones' domicile on separate missions, each unknown to the other. Mr. Hall is in the library, while Mrs. Young is in the sitting room, when Hall knocks over a piece of bric-a-brac, frightening the wits out of Mrs. Young, who starts in alarm. Each reckon the other a hidden burglar, until they meet. At this point Mr. Young and Mrs. Hall appear simultaneously on the doorstep of the Jones' house. Aha. A deep-dyed plot. Things are threateningly tragic until the Joneses, whose auto becomes disabled, return. Explanations corroborating the couple's protestations bring peace.
- Earliest surviving feature film depicting legend of the 47 ronin (see Mizoguchi, Inagaki, Ichikawa, and others)
- A couple of Englishmen reach the middle of the earth accompanied by their guides. Here they find huge caverns covered with stalactites with gigantic mushrooms springing up spontaneously. Elephants innumerable, huge frogs, crocodiles and other monsters appear suddenly, and the travelers flee in tenor. After passing through streams of molten lava and fire they manage to return as if by miracle to the face of the earth.
- A man sells a supposed Rembrandt to a married couple in a bar but an Englishwoman sits on top of the painting and the image sticks to her skirt.
- The classic story about the jealous and evil queen who tries to kill the beautiful maiden by giving her a poisoned apple. Snow White falls into a deep sleep and can only be awakened by a kiss from a prince.
- Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told by a gypsy. When the gypsy tells the fortune so as to serve his own purposes, complications soon develop.
- Our hero having been refused because of his lack of wealth by the father of the girl whom he loves, determines that he will overcome that difficulty and sets out to make a fortune by farming in western Canada. He leaves his home, carrying the love of the daughter, but no hope is held out to him by the father that he can ultimately succeed. We see him after his arrival at Strathmore, Alberta, where he takes up farming on the advanced scale with which it is carried out in this part of the country. Among his earliest acquaintances is a lady by no means unattractive, but of the type and age which is popularly designated as an "old maid." She immediately takes a great fancy to John and on every occasion of their meeting presents him with a few flowers. At first his kindly nature feels only amusement, but after a while her attentions become quite unwelcome, particularly as visit after visit to the village post-office finds no letter waiting for him from his loved one at home. Shifting back to the town which he left, we find that Mr. Willmere, the father of the girl, Mabel, now has very ambitious plans for his daughter, because of the fact that a very wealthy suitor, Mr. Moore, has entered the field. The old man's determination goes so far that he actually prevents a letter which Mabel has written to John, from being sent. We see John in the various stages of his successful farming, continually being followed by the spinster lady, Miss Gray. It is evidently a bad case so far as she is concerned. Finally mailers come to a climax. Mr. Willmere being determined that his daughter shall marry the man of wealth, causes to be inserted in the local newspaper an item to the effect that John Martin having succeeded in Strathmore, has become engaged to a Strathmore belle. The sight of this item temporarily at least turns Mabel's love to pique, and the other suitor being coached to make advances at just this time, is accepted by her. Soon afterwards John, on one of his frequent visits to the village post-office, finds, to his great delight, a letter, but his joy is turned to the deepest grief when upon reaching the attractive home which he has made for Mabel and opening the envelope, he finds it to be a wedding invitation announcing the forthcoming marriage between Miss Mabel Willmere and Mr. Henry B. Moore. In utter despair he sits down and starts a heartbroken letter to her, but is interrupted in the middle of it by the approach of Miss Gray. Feeling that his nerves cannot stand the strain of meeting her just at this time, he hastily leaves the room, leaving the half-written letter with the wedding invitation and Mabel's portrait on the table before him. Miss Gray entering with her customary floral offering and finding the room vacant, soon discovers the articles on the table. In a few moments the whole truth is revealed to her, and here her noble heart, though beating under an old-fashioned exterior, becomes evident. It takes her but a few moments to decide that she will try to prevent two lives from being wrecked, and immediately starts east. Just before the wedding day she reaches Mabel's home, whom she is fortunate enough to find alone. The meeting is naturally an embarrassing one, but even over this embarrassment her unselfishness and true nobility triumph and it is not long before she has acquainted Mabel with the fact that John in far-off western Canada is pining for her. From this point Miss Gray urges upon Mabel the necessity for prompt action, and after argument, prevails upon her to immediately start for John's farm. In order to escape observation, Mabel leaves surreptitiously by means of a ladder placed against her window. Going back to western Canada, we find John at the close of the day's work, heartbroken, with a vision before him of Mabel being led to the altar by Mr. Moore. He goes to his lonely home, and, thinking what might have been, bows down in grief under his misfortune. At that moment Miss Gray enters. He greets her politely, but coldly, and not being able even yet to completely repress her fondness for him, she offers him a bunch of roses which she has brought. This is too much for his over-wrought nerves. Brushing the flowers angrily away he intimates to her that he is in no condition to talk with her. Miss Gray, heartbroken herself, but ever true to her purpose, goes to the door and beckons, at which Mabel enters and going to John lays her hand gently on his shoulder. Thinking that it is Miss Gray, he angrily brushes the hand aside, but upon turning discovers the one person whom perhaps he never expected to see again. Thus the two lovers are made happy, and while we can rejoice in their happiness and their acknowledgment of it to the "old maid," our joy is almost overpowered by the sympathy which we feel for her as she furtively wipes her eyes and turns away. However, we may take consolation in the fact that, though she lost what she most coveted, she at least found two friends who will be true to her through life.
- A large sum of money is exchanged between Mr. Doyle and another man, who pays the money to Mr. Doyle. During the transaction Mr. Doyle's son is sitting at the window and his little daughter is playing with her collie dog, "Jean," on the floor. The father sees the man to the front door, leaving his son and daughter in the room where he left the money on the table. The son leaves the room and the little girl, who is now alone in the room, sees the money, and thinking it is only paper, takes it out in the garden and puts it in the little cradle with her calico doll and cuts one or two of the bank notes into dolls. After the child has gone out the father returns to the room and cannot find the money. He calls the wife; she knows nothing about it, and the father accuses the son of stealing it. The son is indignant, and leaves home. He has hardly left the house when the little girl comes in with the money and gives it to her mother and shows her the pretty paper doll she has made out of one of the bills. The dog follows with another bunch of the money which the child has dropped. The mother calls her husband, and the child explains that she thought the money just paper and she is grieved to hear her brother, whom she dearly loves, has been accused of stealing and has left home. She starts out with her calico doll to find her brother, her collie dog following after her. She wanders through the fields and wood, where she falls, trying to reach a flower, down a steep embankment onto some rocks, spraining her ankle and lying unconscious. The faithful dog tries to rouse her, and, finding it impossible, runs home to get the child's parents to understand him in his efforts to report the child's accident. He rushes back to the child, carries her calico doll to the parents and makes them realize that the child is missing and in danger. While worrying over the loss of their son, here is another loss of their daughter. The son is brought back home by his attachment for his little sister and mother, and when he learns of the loss of his sister and sees "Jean" with her calico doll, he follows him to the place of her accident and brings her safely home.
- A woman undresses, takes a bath, and relaxes.
- Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
- In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
- We start upon our trip over the C.P.R. at Calgary, a beautiful city which stands sentinel on the watch line between mountain and prairie. Soon we find ourselves fairly among the mountains, with all their grandeur, tunnels, torrents and towering peaks. A few moments' stop at Laggan: a glimpse at Lake Louise, the beauty spot of America, then down Eraser Canyon and the Selkirk Mountains. A visit to the National Park, containing the largest herd of buffaloes in the world, and so on until we have passed the two great steamers, the Princess Charlotte and the Princess Victoria, off Otto Point on their way to Victoria. Here, at the capital of British Colombia, we pause to view the harbor, the parliamentary building and the city itself. Four hundred and forty feet of beauty, and every picture is a gem in itself.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and the others work inside the mine, the coal is sent to the surface, where others at the mining site are ready to process the coal and to prepare it for shipping.
- Howard West, a young dental graduate, settles in a Western town. Being a camera enthusiast he soon makes the acquaintance of Nina Sanford, daughter of a rich rancher, and her chum, Dolores Mendez. Whose brother is employed on Sanford's ranch. Both girls arc active picture makers and the trio make many trips into the surrounding country for the purpose of making snap-shots. West falls in love with Nina, who reciprocates his affection, and Dolores, as well, has given her heart to the good-looking dentist though she conceals her passion, knowing West's love for Nina. Mendez also loves Nina and is discharged from Sanford's employ for kissing her as he lifts her from her horse. West gets a new camera with an extension exposure tube that permits him to become one of the members of the group he is taking. He takes the camera out to the ranch to show the girls. Mendez poisons Stanford's mind against West and the ranchman bursts upon the group as West is about to expose a plate. Ordering the girls to the house, he charges West with betraying Nina's affections. West denies the charge with heat and in his anger leaves the ranch forgetting his camera and his riding whip. The charge is so monstrous that he cannot face Nina in explanation but rides off without speaking. Meantime Mendez secures a double revenge by striking down the ranchman with West's loaded quirt. As the blow is struck he steps upon the exposure bulb of the camera and unwittingly records his crime. For the moment fate seems to be in his favor for the quirt, in connection with the facts of West's departure, seems sufficient evidence and West is apprehended and lodged in jail. Dolores has rescue the camera and is curious to see what the plate shows. She goes into her dark room and presently the damning evidence of her brother's crime flashes upon the surface of the plate. Should she shield her brother, the man she loves must die for his crime, but she cannot denounce her own flesh and blood. She compromises with her conscience by first warning her brother and then riding to the District Attorney to submit her evidence. The legal forms are quickly complied with and West is free to marry Nina, and Dolores in her unselfish love finds comfort in the thought that she has saved her hero even while she knew that he would wed another.
- An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is observed making love to the make-believe sweetheart on the stage, by the real, sure enough sweetheart who does not understand that love making in a play is only play, and very far removed from the sacred course of true devotion, there is quite a healthy complication. A young leading actor saves a youth's life, by catching him just in time to save him from what might reasonably he a fatal fall over a precipice, and to reward him the young man promises to intercede with the father of the girl who causes the actor chap sundry heart throbs and a little soul-anguish. But all good intentions do not materialize, and the young man falls in his ambassadorial mission. The summer comes on, and to fill in the time the actor decides to apply for a position in a moving picture studio. While he is making the eternal vow to a girl in the scene, he is detected by his sweetheart, and is renounced forever. In still another scene, his friend whose life he had saved discovers him tied to a tree, soon to be burned to death. He borrows a shotgun and starts to shoot everybody to save his friend from what purports to be a horrible death. After the excitement subsides, the actor explains that he is simply posing for the pictures. Things commence to go right again, as things do when they tire of going wrong. It appears that the father's refusal to consent to his daughter's marriage is based on the fact that the girl has an older and ugly sister, who is unable to secure a lover or a husband; so as a reward for having saved his life, the young man offers to marry the sister, so that the actor can marry "the sister's" sister. The wedding bells send forth a double peal, and four that are but two face this crazy old world for better or for worse, 'till death do them part.
- Young Jamie loved a lassie and she loved him. His love was strong but his purse was weak, and so he went to sea to make his fortune with which to claim his lassie as his bride. The good ship "Ben Lomond" bore him away, and while he was on the seas the lassie's father had his arm broken, when the gypsies stole their cow and the mother of the lassie was taken sick. They were poor folk and the lassie was obliged to spin and weave, keep the house, care for her father and nurse her mother. "Auld Robin Grey," a friend of the family, generous and true, aids them in the time of their need and kindly bestows his beneficence whenever he can do so without pretension or obtrusion. He likes the father and the mother, but he loves the daughter. He asks her to marry him. Her parents favor good old Robin Grey, but the daughter still loves Jamie, and she cannot give heart and hand to another. Men must work and women must weep, but it seems the poor lassie must do both, for it is not long before there is great sorrow and excitement among the town folk. The ship "Ben Lomond" is announced as wrecked, with Jamie and all on board lost. They try to keep the news from Jenny, but bad news travels quickly, and despite Robin Grey's efforts to have the shock come to her as gently as possible she sees the bulletin posted on the outside of the ship chandler's and is supported from falling by her faithful friend Robin. Giving up her Jamie as gone to a watery grave, she is urged to marry Robin Grey, while her heart is at the bottom of the sea. Robin proves a good husband and she tries to be a good wife to him, although she does not love him. Like one from the dead Jamie escapes the wreck and comes back to claim Jennie's hand and heart. She can scarcely believe she sees aright, and she is not easily convinced that her Jamie is alive and talking to her, and when she does realize it she tells him she is the wife of "Auld Robin Grey," and he is a good man and she will do her best to be a faithful wife to him. Jamie and she kiss and then part from each other, to go their own ways as their consciences direct.
- Jack Hartley, the foreman of the Triple X Ranch, is engaged to Nellie Monroe, the ranch owner's daughter. A quarrel starts between Jack and "Red" Williams, a cow-puncher, when the latter first makes advances to Nellie, and second, when Williams abuses a faithful Indian ranch hand. On this latter occasion Jack is unable to restrain his temper and the result is a short fist fight in which Williams is defeated. Smarting under the punishment, Williams seeks revenge. For some time the miscreant cow-puncher has been in league with a bunch of cattle rustlers, whose several attempts at a raid on the Triple X cattle, however, have brought them nothing, and due entirely to the alertness of Hartley, the foreman. They have sufficient cause to hate the manly young fellow and when Williams, after having been put out by the foreman, stalks into their camp, begging them to join him in obtaining his revenge, all are willing. That they must be cautious, however, is plain to them when another of the band joins them, bringing in tow Indian Pete, whom he had found spying about the shack. When Williams sees the Indian and recalls that he was the cause of his beating from Hartley he is in favor of killing the Indian, but the others restrain him. Having settled upon a plan of revenge, Williams is dispatched with a slip of paper, bearing a few words scrawled in lead pencil which is to be the undoing of Hartley, providing, of course, the game works right. The others ride off leisurely to the Tripe X horse corral and make away with a dozen or more ponies, while Williams is to work his end of the same with Hartley. He finds Hartley at another part of the ranch and succeeds in establishing a reconciliation, after confessing his wrong and pleading forgiveness. Hartley gives him his hand and brings out his cigarette paper and tobacco when Williams asks for "the makin's." When Hartley is not looking Williams slips the bit of paper in among the rice wrappings, then bids Hartley good-bye and leaves to put the finishing touches to his nefarious scheme. A few minutes later he rides excitedly up to the ranch house and calls loudly for Monroe When the old ranchman appears, Williams tells him of the stealing of the ponies, and adds further, "And I know who's at the back of this dirty trick. It's Hartley. If you don't believe it, I can prove it." The alarm is given and Hartley, unsuspicious of the conspiracy, comes running on the scene. A little crowd has gathered when Williams makes his accusation: "I saw him with a bunch of greasers this morning, and I saw him get a note from them fifteen minutes ago, and that note is in the pocket of his shirt. Search him." The astonished and enraged Hartley is seized and searched. The note is found and reads: "Jack Hartley. Got the horses all O.K. and will divide with you to-night. Meet us at the usual place. The Bunch." Hartley is given no attempt to defend himself, despite Nellie's desperate pleadings. He is ordered to mount his horse and leads the procession on the way to execution. In the meantime, Indian Pete, left with a drunken cowboy, makes his getaway and, with his hands still tied behind him, mounts a horse and rides desperately back to the ranch. There is no one there but the heart-broken girl. He tells her everything as she releases him and the two mount and ride at top speed to the scene of the execution. They are just in time. The Indian proves Hartley innocent and Williams is seized and stood in Hartley's place. The film ends here, with the embrace of the lovers.
- Frank Gotch defends the World's Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Stanislaus Zbyszko.
- Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise when the lord's nephew also becomes attracted to Peggy.
- "Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied to the growth of plants." Montly Film Bulletin, November 1955
- A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.