Descriptive Catalogue of Pathéscope Films (1918)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

CLASS 9— Dramas 113 REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER aware of the value and delivery of the package, cut the telegraph wires, capture Helen and tie her to the bulkheads in the water. She frays the rope which binds her and frees herself only to find that the station-master has been attacked, but in the scrimmage he has managed to throw the package out of the window into the water. The thieves board a gasoline launch to get the package. Helen and her associates, suspended one from another, form a human chain from the bridge to the water and just as Helen recovers the package the thieves come along and sieze her. She manages to escape from the boat, swims ashore and boards a swiftly moving train. A very thrilling chase follows between the train and the launch. The latter runs short of gasoline just at the end of the railroad pier. The thieves are captured and Helen recovers the package. A-298 to A-301 Alladin and His Wonderful Lamp Kalem Our old friend Aladdin, of Arabian Nights fame, on the screen! The story is so generally known that no review is necessary. We need only remind our readers that just as this story is and always has been popular with children, the screen story will be as enthusiastically received, and is a valuable addition and to the juvenile department of our repertoire. A-305 and A-306 The Open Track Kalem Garwood, one of a band of counterfeiters, who have a secret mint in the hills, notifies them that detectives are watching and they hastily leave the mountains. They come upon two of the detectives unawares, overcome and tie them to the cowcatcher of an engine, which they set wild. It passes the station where Helen Holmes is telegraph operator and she races after it on a motorcycle. Catching up with it she makes a thrilling jump, stops the engine and releases the detectives just in time to stop and capture the counterfeiters who are escaping in an auto. A-307 and A-308 Danger's Path Kalem Helen Holmes, operator at Hobart Junction, comes upon two box car thieves and calls for help. They seize and lock her in the refrigerator car of a passing train. To keep from freezing she lights a fire which sets the car afire. The escaping smoke attracts the attention of the crew, who rescue Helen just in the nick of time. Shortly afterward Helen and Maloney, a detective, again come upon the thieves, who engage them in a fight. They knock Maloney down into the pit of the railroad turntable. He is about to be crushed to death when Helen stops the turntable and a band of workmen chase and capture the thieves. A-309andA-310 The Pay Train Kalem One of a gang of track workers tries to force his attention on Helen and is discharged by his foreman. He manages to obtain a copy of a telegram to the foreman telling him to meet the pay train at Thomas, and incites the gang to hold up the train. They first capture Helen and lock her in an empty cattle car, then change the railroad signal and switch so as to derail the pay train. Helen gains possession of a pistol, dropped by one of the gang, and shoots away one of the supports of the signal, changing it in time to save the train. She is rescued by the train-crew who also capture the thieves.