This Pathe short is fairly well-made for the era, but it is an incredibly sentimental tearjerker that definitely hasn't stood the test of time.
The film opens in the one-room shack of an ill woman lying on a mattress on the floor. Beside her sits her small daughter who, when she realises that it is Mother's Day, decides to cheer up her sick mother by picking some wild flowers for her. Big mistake. While she's happily collecting flowers in the long grass, a hunter mistakes her for, well, something shoot-able, which he promptly does, fatally wounding the little girl. After being carried home by the man and some neighbours, the girl just has time to hand the flowers to her mother before dying.
I guess most of the audience would have had no clue what the film was about when they started watching it, so it probably had quite good shock value back in 1906, but today it just looks like the kind of film that is ripe for lampooning.
The film opens in the one-room shack of an ill woman lying on a mattress on the floor. Beside her sits her small daughter who, when she realises that it is Mother's Day, decides to cheer up her sick mother by picking some wild flowers for her. Big mistake. While she's happily collecting flowers in the long grass, a hunter mistakes her for, well, something shoot-able, which he promptly does, fatally wounding the little girl. After being carried home by the man and some neighbours, the girl just has time to hand the flowers to her mother before dying.
I guess most of the audience would have had no clue what the film was about when they started watching it, so it probably had quite good shock value back in 1906, but today it just looks like the kind of film that is ripe for lampooning.