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- Trick photography, containing many new stunts. It will make much laughter, and will interest as well.
- An alchemist has brewed a powerful poison; he has also experimented on an antidote. A prince and courtier come to the house to learn of their future, see the alchemist's daughter, and both fall in love with her. The girl, dreaming of the handsome strangers, forgets her pet dog; he drinks from the bowl of poison and is dying. Her screams bring the father. Eagerly he tries his antidote; it works; the dog is saved; the scientist is triumphant. In the castle the prince longs for the girl. With the aid of his friend he steals her, and places her under a lady-in-waiting in a room in his castle. There he tries to woo her without success. His friend enters the girl's room and attempts to take her in his arms. Frightened she flies to the prince for protection. He tells her his love is honest, and that on the morrow he will ask her father for her hand in marriage. With a heart full of hate the false friend goes to the alchemist and gets poison, telling the poor heart-broken father it is for the prince. The courtier puts the poison in water; the girl is dying. In this condition she is discovered by her lady-in-waiting. The prince is told and heart-broken falls beside his dead love. Meanwhile the father consults the stars. In them he sees his daughter's peril. Taking the antidote he climbs through a window in the castle and saves his child. When the priests and courtiers come with the prince and his friend to bury the girl, she rises and denounces her would-be murderer. The priests, who came to bury the girl, marry her to the prince.
- We are given very interesting views of snakes found in Asia Minor, mountainous Asia, and Europe. Chameleons, lizards and tortoises are included. Colors come out remarkably well.
- A series of shots of activities along the sea front at Brighton southern England. The film is historically important for being the first commercially produced film in natural colour, using director George Albert Smith's patented Kinemacolor process
- A girl dreams she visits toyland and helps Santa Claus.
- Here is one of the best pictures the natural color company has made. It may be described as filmed standard fiction. The expenditure of much pains and money is apparent. The film portrays the lives first of James Watt as boy and man, and then of George Stephenson likewise. Watt is shown making his first discovery of the power of steam and constructing the model of the stationary engine. So also is shown George Stephenson as a boy, pushing a coal car over rails, and wondering why steam could not be employed to do the same thing. We see the making in clay of the first locomotive model and then the demonstration on rails of the first engine. Running through the pictures are portrayed the love stories of the two men, which raises the interest. Much attention is given to costumes of the period.
- Gives one beautiful series of views of horses on the ice drawing the produce to shore. Its pictures of green ice blocks are fine.
- Mary had a little Sam, who was always following her about, but was too bashful to propose. Accordingly, in order to encourage him by examples of marital happiness, Mary takes him calling on several wedded friends, to whom she has previously written as follows: "Sam hasn't proposed yet, and I want you to help me out. Will you and your husband please be extra affectionate when I bring Sam to call this evening? With love, Mary." The tour is at first successful. Such a circuit of matrimonial dove-cotes, with couples billing and cooing in each, cannot fail to encourage a bashful bachelor, even though he is a little embarrassed by the elaborate displays of conjugal felicity he finds in every home. However, by the time he takes Mary home, he has made up his mind to "pop the question," when she discovers that she has left her handbag at some of the homes they have visited. Gallant Sam volunteers to recover it, if she will wait at the gate for his return. But he comes back "a sadder if wiser man." For, on his return tour of the domestic circuit, he finds that a change has come o'er the spirit of their dreams. Instead of billing and cooing, as in the first act, every couple is quarreling and bickering over some domestic difficulty. As a climax, Mary's brother-in-law, who is so mad that he must fight somebody, throws the handbag at Sam. "There was Mary, waiting at the church," but all she gets is the handbag, and "So long, Mary." Sam beats it back to his bachelor den.
- Jack loves Milly but her father will not have him, as he has not even a home to offer her. The father's taunt stings Jack and he declares he will build the home himself. After the wedding the young couple go to Jack's house and their troubles begin. The windows will not move. The front door declines to shut. When the door bell is pulled the entire wiring comes out. The chimney smokes and covers everything in the room with soot, including Jack and Milly. The roof leaks during a heavy rain and deluges the room and its occupants. Jack climbs through the skylight to fix the roof, but only succeeds in falling from the top, tearing the shingles as he falls. Torrents of rain come through on Milly, who by this time is drenched to the skin. She is furious and determines to leave for her mother's home. To her mother drenched Milly goes with her story. The mother puts dry clothes on her and father goes for carpenters. The rain has stopped, and they all arrive at "The House That Jack Built' to find poor soaked Jack sitting on his steps determined to catch cold and die. Father consults the builders, whose advice is to tear the house down and begin over again, and this they do. The husband and wife "make up" and Jack swears never again to build a house.
- Beginning with the parade, in which we see some wonderful drilling and marching of the Shriners, we proceed to the field where the sports were held. A beautiful view of Broadway, Los Angeles, with all the fluttering flags and bunting flying in the breeze, is shown. Some interesting scenes include the big barbecue at Eddie Maier's El Rancho Selecto. Here are shown the barbecue pits in which were roasted whole oxen in Mexican style. Races and sporting competitions of every kind are next shown, concluding with a very funny snake march, with the host, Mr. Maier, at the head.
- Jack, a young millionaire, sees Mary and falls in love with her. For a long time he follows her, but cannot learn her name, until she writes an advertisement for a chauffeur. Jack buys a chauffeur suit and a book, "How to run an Automobile in one lesson" and gets the position. Of course, when he takes out his employer, he has an accident. A passing machine takes the party home. Through nursing her little sister Mary contracts the mumps. Jack gets them too. Both are confined to their rooms. Mary hears burglars and calls Jack. Then she sends for the police. The burglars escape, but the two invalids are arrested. Before matters are straightened out the entire police force is on its way to Mumpsville. When Jack gets away from the station he makes arrangements to leave his "job," but Mary detains him. She gets Jack; the police get the mumps.
- At the opening of the film Pennsylvania Avenue is shown, nearly blocked by a motley mob of sightseers looking at the marching Suffragettes. The big banner demanding a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal rights to American women makes a pathway along which the Suffragettes are seen marching steadily and persistently, although still hemmed in by the mob. Then mounted troopers clear the way, and a close view is given of the various allegorical groups on the handsomely decorated floats, and the various marching organizations in characteristic colors. Among these are the Canadian delegates in costume; the International representatives in the colors of their respective countries; a beautiful float, representing the famous "Women of the Bible," and the Mothers' Association, in marching order. Among the mounted Amazons are shown splendid personal pictures of Mrs. Gus Ruhlin, wife of the famous athlete, and Miss Florence Lawrence. Kinemacolor shows their sisters and sympathizers at home exactly how the Suffragettes "fought," if not actually "bled" in the Battle of Washington, and even their "antis" are forced to admire the manner in which the American Amazons win the "right of way" through a throng that might easily throw into confusion a St. Patrick's Day parade.
- A conjurer's hands change milk into claret.
- Beginning with a panorama of an orange grove, we pass on to the setting out of the nursery stock through the various stages of the development of this luscious fruit. Scenes showing the budding of Navel orange slips onto seedling stock, the wrapping of seedling plants to protect them from rabbits, etc., are very interesting. Then in succession are shown a cultivator in a grape fruit grove, fertilizing the soil of a grove, and views of a twenty-year-old Navel Grove. Close views of fruit and blossoms on the same branch, the picking of fruit from four-year-old Valencias and interesting scenes showing how the fruit is sorted, graded, wrapped and packed. The concluding scenes show some fine specimens of the fruit, with views of the packing house and the dispatching in refrigerator cars of the shipments for the East.
- Ned Patterson, who has been devoting his energies to increasing the importation of wine, is brought home by his pals in spectacular style. His head is wreathed with grape leaves, and he is draped with a white tablecloth, on which is painted the legend, "I am Bacchus, God of Wine." Father finds him in this state, and considers that the joke has gone far enough. So the next morning Ned finds the following note, "Inasmuch as you seem wedded to Bacchus, you had better use enclosed check in taking a reformatory honeymoon. Stay until I tell you to return Your Father." Ned is banished to a fishing beach in a "dry" county, and in throwing away his last flask, he encloses the following farewell note, "I am sinking with a schooner on the bar. To the finder of this I bequeath the fortune I have left with Bacchus, Ned Patterson." The flask floats out to sea, where it is caught in a fisher's net. The unsophisticated old fisherman goes to the city to find Mr. Bacchus and claim the fortune, leaving his daughter to tend the nets, in which Ned is speedily entangled. That she is a good fisher of men is proved by the telegram Ned sends to his father, "I have divorced Bacchus and married the daughter of a fisherman. What shall I do?" To which father replies, "Bring her home and make a living for her."
- The opening, with Hester condemned to wear the blazing scarlet A, is back in England. It shows Hester in the garden of her home, with her father; and then the introduction of the old medico Roger Chillingworth, who asks for and receives from the father the hand of Hester. There is realism when the Indians rescue the shipwrecked Chillingsworth. He is washed ashore lashed to a mast, the waves driving over him. Again where Hester tells Dimmesdale "Fear not, I'll not betray thee;" where the old man confronts Hester, with babe in arms, and in the secrecy of a cell warns her to tell no one she had ever called him husband; where the minister appeals to Hester, "Give us the man's name and thou shalt go free;" where the minister, conscience-stricken, stands in the pillory and bares his seared breast, not knowing that old Roger is looking on; and where the minister, after Hester had made all plans for their escape, plans which the old man had upset, falls by the pillory and dies in Hester's arms. There are some beautiful scenes in these three short reels.. One that stands out is of Hester, her troubles behind her, standing by the rail of a ship outward bound. Little Pearl is by her side. The photography throughout is excellent. There are two scenes that particularly will stir the emotions. These are where the pastor, attracted to the young wife on sight, reproaches her for avoiding him, '"when thou knowest thy husband was lost at sea;" and Hester, hesitating, responds to the desire of her heart and flies to his arms. Again, years later, when Hester sees the minister dying slowly under the torturing of his conscience and the evil influence of old Chillingworth, she entreats him to go with her and begin life over again, away from the scarlet letter, away from Chillingworth, away from the shame and suffering of the past seven years; as Dimmesdale takes Hester in his arms after all the penance they have undergone one feels that this couple have been more sinned against than sinning, that they have earned the right to have peace, to be by themselves.
- The S.S. Imperator arrives in New York harbor.
- Beginning with the start of the President-elect for the Capitol, escorted by the dashing Essex Troop of New Jersey. Kinemacolor shows a splendid panorama of the thronged Plaza in front of the U.S. Capitol, together with a vertical view of that historic building and its brilliant decorations, from the Goddess of Liberty on top, down to the inauguration stand at the base of the east steps. The full ceremony of taking the oath at the hands of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the presence of the Congress and high officials of government, is shown; together with President Wilson delivering his inaugural address, and being congratulated by ex-President Taft. Afterwards the two are shown at close view, riding together in the state carriage back to the White House, while Secretary of State William J. Bryan following in a taxicab, and other famous statesmen are pictured true to life and color.
- A U.S. Cavalryman realizes that the young American Indian woman he loves is his long-lost sister, born to their mother after she was abducted while the family was making the trek westward.
- Pictures of many animals, mostly wild, including tame serval, kinkajou. Italian squirrel. Russian Teddy bear, pet fox, ferrets, Queen Alexandia's Siamese cat, etc.
- Kinemacolor proves that it is not necessary to take a long sea voyage in order to see "A City of the Sea," for there is a veritable Venice on the southern coast of our own California. Although not so old, of course, and constructed on a smaller, more modern scale, the American Venice has plenty of room to grow without encroaching on the sea, and in its miniature way is just as picturesque, if not as dirty, as the ancient city on the Adriatic. Neither is it necessary to sail to the Hawaiian Islands in order to see the celebrated sport of surf board riding, for Venice boasts a number of natives and visitors who are expert as the original Kanakas. It is an impressive sight to see these bold swimmers riding the Pacific rollers while standing upright on a board, but it is a ticklish trick as well, and Old Neptune's untamed seahorses frequently give their riders a spill, which adds to the comedy effect. This film concludes with the remarkable performance of a cowgirl lasso expert, who dons a brown velveteen coat while keeping the riata constantly circling in a ring around her.
- Tom is hurt in a football accident; the doctor uses hypodermic injections of morphine and Tom becomes a morphine fiend. He manages to keep his secret hidden from his friends. He goes home with Bob for the holidays. At the ranch he meets Bob's sister, Helen; they love and Tom is accepted. His fight against the drug continues, even his love for Helen cannot overcome the cravings for morphine. Bob surprises him in the act of using the hypodermic needle and demands an explanation. Tom confesses his inability to stop the drug and sinks upon the bed overcome with shame. Bob determines upon a cure. Two boys wander on the desert. Ill, Tom sinks, overcome. Bob determines to put him to the test. He has pretended to lose the trail, but he leads Tom to the hut of an old miser. They prepare to sleep in the attic. Bob slips the hypodermic where Tom can see it. For a moment there is a struggle, but love wins, and Tom throws the fatal instrument out of the window. Bob keeps the secret, and on their return home places his sister in Tom's arms.
- The S.S. Oceana went aground and sank near Easthorne on the English coast. A few sketches show how she was raised. An interesting sea picture.
- "Dollar Bill" was a desperate outlaw, according to the posters which advertised many times his face value as a reward for his capture, "dead or alive," which were displayed on posts and trees in Prickly Pear Canyon. Every cowboy was professedly looking for the said "Dollar Bill," with the hope of winning that reward, and the pretty schoolmarm. "Dollar Bill," who is a clever counterfeit, is none other than Gentleman Jack, the classiest cowpuncher of the bunch, and chairman of the Board of Education. In the latter capacity it was his duty to welcome the new school teacher and install her in the new school house, which speedily became the Mecca of all the marriageable men in the camp. Such a universal thirst for learning had never before been known in Prickly Pear Canyon, even the Indians becoming inoculated so that Chief Pete tried to interfere. The Dominie seems to be Jack's principal rival, so he conceives the idea of disguising himself as "Dollar Bill," terrorizing the camp, and compelling the minister to perform a marriage ceremony with the schoolmarm. How well he succeeds can only be learned by seeing the picture.
- Some very pretty women showing new styles of dressing the hair. It was taken in New York City and shows the work of Wm. Hepner, a hair dresser.
- Billy is ordered out of the house by the parents of the girl he loves. Her family expect a Count to visit them and advertise for a butler. Billy reads the advertisement and by means of a disguise is engaged. He makes desperate efforts to wait on the table, but the attentions of the Count to the girl Billy loves cause him to make many sad mistakes. The girl has penetrated the disguise and enjoys the situation. Billy hears a noise in the night and leaves his bed room in the servant's quarters to investigate, descending to the dining-room. Here Billy encounters a burglar, a fierce fight ensuing. The family hear the commotion and come down stairs, all in a semi-dressed condition. During the fight Billy's disguise has become disarranged and he stands revealed to the irate father. His wrath is dispelled when by tearing away the mask from the burglar, the Count is discovered. Billy is forgiven and gets the girl.
- Albert is a "Raffles," a social highwayman, who, while mingling with high society, takes toll of their jewels and pocketbooks so cleverly that his pilferings are unsuspected even by his big brother, Jim. Both love the same girl but Albert has the luck to steal her heart on the very evening when detectives have been detailed to shadow and arrest him at a grand reception. It happens that suspicion is shifted to Jim. and on being searched, a diamond brooch and an engagement ring are found in his pockets. Having just witnessed his brother's acceptance by his lady love Jim does not explain that he purchased this jewelry in hopes of winning her himself: and when the knowledge of Albert's guilt is forced upon him, he decides to pay the penalty rather than spoil the girl's romance. Albert reforms after his marriage, but the knowledge that his brother is paying the penalty of his crimes in the penitentiary, weighs upon him, and his health fails. Feeling that his end is near. Albert writes a full confession, but when this document is delivered to Jim he tears it up, refusing to secure his release at the price of disgracing his brother's widow and child. So Albert's memory is left without reproach.
- This is a story of two brothers in love with the same girl. She loves Jim, the younger, but to the two, as they start for the West, she gives each a photograph, inscribed: "May each be his brother's keeper, Mary." The brothers prosper. Ben works hard. His brother hangs about dance halls with Denver Dolly. When seeking his brother Ben is shot in mistake by Jim, who goes away, thinking he has killed him. Ben is nursed by Dolly, who reforms. Jim, conscience-stricken, gives himself up. The "boys" decide to hang him. Dolly arrives on the scene as the rope is about to be drawn and saves Jim.
- The beautiful daughter of an old fisherman is deeply in love with a stunning revenue officer on parole near the old fishing hut. The honest old seaman doubts the sincerity of the handsome suitor and plans a test of truth and loyalty, from the man in uniform. Cupid successfully pilots the happy lovers over the stormy waves of the old fisherman's anger and safely lands them on the island of happiness.
- Views of many beautiful fish, including among others Alpine newts, golden carp, fresh-water crab and a crab eating a worm.
- A grouchy old Dutchman, Hans, has two daughters, whom he treats abominably. From morning till night it is nothing but cross words and frowns. Hans also has a wooden leg, with which he kicks all who cross his will. The oldest daughter, Gretchen, has a lover, Fritz, but Hans wants her to marry an old skinflint, Peter, by name. Fritz is forbidden to come to the house, and despite the appeals of Gretchen, Hans sets the day for her to marry Peter. The younger daughter is crying in the yard, when a fairy appears to her. On learning the cause of those tears, the fairy throws a spell of enchantment over that wooden leg of Hans. From now on laugh follows laugh. Hans tries to kick, but the leg will not obey him. Peter informs Hans that Gretchen has gone to the church to marry Fritz. Thither comes Hans, but at the church the leg will not let him enter, instead it whirls him about in circles. The young folks hasten home after the wedding, frightened, but willing to face the consequences. The leg rushes Hans home, makes him go to the closet and get out his choicest viands for the wedding feast. When Hans is fully punished, and acknowledges the error of his ways, the fairy removes the enchantment, and on the arrival of old Peter, the leg kicks him out the door. Her mission over the fairy vanishes, leaving a united family around the table.
- Showing a number of smiling girls displaying themselves, and also latest styles in millinery.