The Film Index (Jul-Dec 1910)

THE FILM INDEX 21 Trade Mark. BIOGRAPH FILMS Trade Mark. Released November 28, 1910. IN SONG The Power of Filial Devotion. "Love thy father and thy mother." This is the most important injunction in all of God's commandments, for nothing will save youth from the snares and pitfalls laid in the way as this. It was the love little Edith bore her parents that saved her when sorely tempted to go away to what at first seemed a life of happiness. She, living a life of abject lonesomeness, caring for ter poor old mother and blind father, listens to the persuasions of a traveling theatrical manager, and is finally induced to accompany him as a member of his repertoire company. At the railroad station she sees a party of poor folks on their way to the almshouse, and the sight seems ominous of the probable fate of her own 5™!!*!J parents, awakening her love for them, thus saving her from the fatal step. Approximate Length, 997 feet. A PLAIN SONG. Released December 1st, 1910. ING A CURE A Lesson to the Wives of Recreant Hubbies Hubby since his marriage had been paying little trips to his club, and on this particular evening when wifey and mother are to be away on a visit overnight, he plans to do things up brown. Hence after a long session at the club, he is escorted home by a cabby and deposited in a morris chair, where wifey and mamma find him upon th eir return in the morning. Instead of jumping on him they fix up a plot that makes him sincere in his resolution "Never Again." The plan they employ makes him an apparent victim of a bunch of indiscretions while under the influence of drink. The moral to wives is don't lecture, but frighten. Approximate Length, 997 feet. EFFECTING A CURE. BIOGRAPH COMPANY, East 14th Street, New York City RELEASE DATS OF MO RAPH SUBJECTS, MONDAY AND THURSDAY Gel on oar Mail List for Descriptive Circular. Licensees of the MOTION PICTURE PATENTS CO. I I GEORGE KI.EINE, Selling Agent for Chicago, 53 State Street, Chicago, 111. ever, prevails. She enters her canoe and paddles out from the shore. The swift current carries her along, She approaches the great Falls cf Niagara. She is soon on the brink and then goes over the edge, en L;V # bbbbbC'I^"' h, jt± 3 i." gulfed in the great mass of water, to be ultimately dashed upon the rocks below a lifeless Corpse. Esoomgit follows down the banks of the river disconsolate. He finally reaches her dead body. His life ■ C ■■* 1 • • ifef.^BB | J ^m . . \ ■ *r a* •* Lul .SSBBBBBBBR ESfaV $* : V > --J*£„ . ■ !"^W' 'v^fS -*ay .'■"* * jitffiS *'-*& "f?*^^ 4& '-% KALEM CO, "THE TOUCH OF A CHILD'S HAND."— The Kalem release for Wednesday, Nov. 30, is entitled "The Touch of a Child's Hand," and the title is truly descriptive of the theme. A contrast is drawn between Mr. Livingston, a wealthy widower and his little son Billie, and Dan Newton, a working man, and little Jimmie, his son. Each boy is idolized by his father. It so happens that little Jimmie is accidentally run down and killed by Mr. Livingston's automobile. Mr. Livingston does all that a gentleman could do to comfort the grief-stricken father and to make reparation, but Newton, crazed by his loss, his bereavement following a long period of hard luck, completely upsets his reason and in his ravings he comes to the conclusion that his loss of his little son can only be balanced by the death of Mr. Livingston's little boy. And with this idea in mind Newton gains entrance into the Livingston house at night and makes his way to the little boy's bedroom. He kneels by the child's crib, is about to plunge a knife into the heart of the sleeping child when the boy, stirring uneasily, lifts his little hand and places it gently on the cheek of the would-be assassin. The touch of the child's hand is sufficient to restore the father to his reason, and realizing the enormity of the deed he had contemplated he breaks into tears and is thus found by Mr. Livingston. Accompanying "The Touch of a Child's Hand" is a pretty travelogue picture entitled "Up the Thames to Westminster," in which some novel photographic effects are introduced. is spcilt. He wades out in the raging torrent and is quickly sucked under, but he knows he will meet his love in the Happy Hunting Grounds. "ELDER ALDEN'S INDIAN BRIDE."— The Kalem Indian picture for Friday, Dec. 2, is again founded on a well authenticated historic episode and is entitled "Elder Alden's Indian Ward." During the period when the Puritans were in many parts of the country friendly with the Indians, it is well known a number of the prominent chiefs were frequently callers -at the homes of the whites, and were often on terms of confidence. Elder Alden was a Puritan of a stern religious frame of mind, who had entered into such friendly relations with Chief So.uantum, a noted Pequot Indian, and Chief Squantum, to show his faith in Elder Alden, brought to the Puritan his little son to be brought up as a white man. Elder Alden took in the little Indian boy and brought him up as one of his own, and when the lad reached young manhood his Indian blood asserted itself, and he not only refused to work, but in addition demanded the young daughter of Elder Alden as his squaw. Enraged at being refused of this, he left the Alden home and went back to his tribe, there becoming a thoroughly bad Indian and a leader in uprisings against the whites. His final act of treachery was to head a foray against the little settlement in which the Alden home was located. The aged Chief Squantum learning of the proposed raid traveled many weary miles to give the settlers warning, but he was too late, and the painted redskins headed by his own son burst into the Alden home just as the old chief was warning them to prepare their defense, and when thus confronted by the treachery of his son the old chief draws his knife and in defending the young girl kills his own son. EDISON MFG. CO. "THE GREATER LOVE."— How many tragedies of life are hidden behind care-worn faces. How many heart-aches are closed to the gaze of the passive eye. How little we really know of our fellow men. Each minute as it slips upon its way carries with it a dying groan, a cry of anguish, a sigh of oblivion. Each hour is the saddest in the whole life cf someone, each hour the happiest to some other wayfarer, but of all the heartaches of all the agonies of the mind, the strongest of them all is when a mother realizes that her boy is a common thief, that he has thrown the inheritance of manhood away that all she has lived and suffered fcr has gone down in defeat. Ah, what agony is in her heart. It is just this agony that Mile. Pilar Morin has so wonderfully portrayed In the Edison latest picture, "The Greater Love," which is Mile. Morin's masterpiece in the motion picture world. She has given as her greatest work in every sense of the word, running the entire field of emotion of love, sorrow, anguish, self-sacrifice and renunciation of all that life holds dear. A wonderful piece of work summed up in a clear, simple, dramatic story that holds the spectators in its grip from the first glimpse of the young girl with her joy of life and triumph of loving to the supreme self-sacrifice of a mother's love for the sake of her boy. The story itself is situated in the provincial district of France and reveals that stern law of the French parent who has command and control over the life and will of his child. The heart cf this little French peasant girl has gone out to a young barrister whom she worships and who worships her with all the holy loyalty of a noble love, yet centuries of custom forces its way between them and the girl is compelled to bow down to her father's frill. At the signing of the marriage contract we are shown her heart in all its sufferings and now time passes on. It is twenty years later and we see the result of a father's law. Annette, the daughter, has married her father's choice he is a coarse cruel brute — her life is crushed — the only gleam of joy that lights up her fate is when her eyes rest upon her