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- A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of 'Savages' - exterminating all Native Americans. But there is hope when the band find a new beginning.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Biggs is a clerk; his wages are small, his wife has a queer cheap servant and is tired to death with her various household duties. Biggs reads of a wonderful book, cost $2.00. This book teaches anyone how to write a photoplay and make money easily. The wife grudges the $2.00, but Biggs sends off the money for the book. At his desk Biggs neglects his work; he is thinking up a grand idea for a picture play. His boss is furious, his fellow clerks amused. The book arrives. Biggs studies it and writes and writes. He compels his wife and the cook to act out scenes for him, then he dashes off reams of writing. The play is finally finished and sent to the Scenario Editor of a great picture company. Biggs falls asleep and dreams his story brought $100 and an offer of a position of $300 a week on the editorial staff of the picture company. He falls out of the chair and wakes with a start. What really happened: In her office the Scenario Editor and her stenographer are working like mad, the postman enters with the morning mail and, horror stricken, they examine Biggs' great play. Amusement follows their disgust, and after much fun the scenario is returned as "Useless." The morning mail brings to the Luckless Biggs his returned manuscript. Furious, he tears it to pieces, throwing it all about. The servant is called and the great work of his brain is swept into the dust pan. Biggs returns to his bookkeeping, a sadder, but wiser, man.
- The Kinemacolor Company of America has arranged with Gimbel Brothers to photograph in natural colors "La Parisienne Elegance in Her Boudoir," the demonstration, for ladies only, of the correct manner of wearing the latest styles of French lingerie. For this fashion display Paris has sent her loveliest and most novel specimens of under-apparel. Naturally such intimate displays are not for the general public, but these pictures will be supplied to theaters having the Kinemacolor fashion service with the understanding that they are to be shown only at special morning matinée performances for ladies only. The popularity of the "Fashion Parade" in Kinemacolor proved to exhibitors that style shows are something new in filmdom, and such a decided innovation has already resulted in renewed demand for the Kinemacolor Fashion Service.
- Showing a number of smiling girls displaying themselves, and also latest styles in millinery.
- 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 joyous spirit of Christmas pervades the house where Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby have collected toys for their two little children. A week before Christmas the mother sickens and dies. The Father, wrapped in his grief, forgets the children and wraps himself up in his sorrow. The night before Christmas the neglected children slip from bed and hang up their stockings as usual, sure that if papa has forgotten them Santa Claus has not. During the night the spirit of the mother returns, she sees her babies asleep and noiselessly gets the toys from their hiding place and fills the stockings, gliding about unseen. Upon the book her husband has left on the table she leaves a red rose, her favorite flower, with which in life he always kept her supplied. Her mission accomplished, she vanishes. On Christmas morning the children rush for their stockings, the astonished father questions the servants, but they deny having filled the stocking. Then he sees the rose, and knows the spirit of his beloved wife has come back to teach him a lesson. He throws aside his selfish grief and makes the Christmas a happy one for his babies, knowing full well the joy of his conduct will cause the "Christmas Spirit."
- 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.
- The man of the East leaves wife and baby for the gold fields. Later he strikes gold, writes for wife and baby, the mail bag falls off the stage coach, floats down and catches on the rocks, while the husband and wife wait for news of each other. The wife starts to find her husband, but arrives too late for the weekly stage to the camp. A boy takes her in a wagon across the desert. At a "waterhole" the woman alights to fill the canteen and some drunken Indians frighten the boy, who drives off. The mother wanders till her strength gives out, leaving the baby under some bushes, she climbs a near-by hill, hoping to see some signs of life. She falls exhausted and is found by some Indians, taken to their camp and nursed back to life. The baby is discovered by some cowboys, taken to camp, and Jim being the only man who knows about babies, adopts it. The baby must be fed, there is no milk; the Chinaman solves the difficulty by buying up "The Only Female in Camp" - a goat. An itinerant priest visits Jim's shack and sees the baby. He next visits the camp of the Indians, hears the white woman's story and by his efforts the little family are united.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pretty girls and new ways of dressing the hair. It was made in New York.
- The King finds Simple, a drunken peasant by the wayside, takes him to the castle, and dresses him in royal robes. The fool is disguised as a woman and passed off as the Queen. The King is treated as a lackey, and until weary of the jest the court have a merry time. At home Mrs. Simple, a shrew, waits for her husband, then goes to the village inn and learns that the King has taken Simple to the castle. She rushes there, overthrows the guards and enters the throne room in time to see the fool seated on her husband's knee. She causes much trouble and is finally pushed outside the castle gates. The King wearies of this jest and Simple in his old clothes, his pockets full of gold, is taken to the roadside where the King found him. When he awakens from his drunken slumbers and sees his old clothes, he thinks it all a dream, but the gold in his pockets reassures him and he goes to the Inn. There he assumes kingly airs much to the amusement of the loiterers who humor him but his dream of glory is soon over. Mrs. Simple comes to the Inn and leads her royal husband off by the ear. At home poor Simple is forced to build the fire, and in the rising smoke he sees a vision of his few hours of kingly greatness.
- A picture containing views of the buildings of the exhibition, the Midway, Scotch cadets in musical dance, judging horses, prize animals, a fine review of the Withington Zouaves and many other interesting scenes.
- Contrasting the style of fashions in the olden days with those of the modern times.
- 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.