Revised list of high-class original motion picture films (1908)

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SENSATIONAL. O. D. 1484. THE SMUGGLERS. Price, $31.20. Colored, Extra, $31.20. Approximate Length, 260 feet. This subject very vividly illustrates what vigilance is observed by the government to eliminate the nefarious practice of smuggling. Scurrying toward the frontier is a rough and hardened looking character with a large bag on his back. We follow him as he scampers through the woods, crossing a stream back and forth. He has been observed, and the officers are hot on his trail. The methods resorted to to elude the officers show that the man is an old offender, and despite his many artful ruses the officers, who are equal to the occasion, are seen to gain at every stage. Reaching a cliff barely across the frontier we see the man cast his burden over, and attaching a rope to a projection he is sliding down the mountain side just as the officers appear. Taking out a knife the latter cut the rope, and the man rolls down and lands in a heap just a few feet from his accomplices, who are anxiously awaiting his arrival and who have already taken charge of the bag of smuggled goods. The result is disastrous to the perpetrator, and it is again evident that "the way of the transgressor is hard." Very exciting and good action throughout. G. D. 1591. CHILD'S CUNNING. Price, $80.04. Approximate Length, 667 feet. The home scene shows a pot of molten metal on the stove, a set of moulds and other paraphernalia of a counterfeiter. The husband is busy filling the moulds, while the wife and daughter are engaged in polishing. Presently the various appliances are secreted about the room, and the daughter is given a new, bright coin, and told to take care of the house while the parents go out to make some necessary purchases. In some instances the coin is refused, and in others accepted and the change returned. We leave them making purchases, and return to the house, where the girl finally takes her jumping rope and goes out to play. As she comes to the play grounds she finds a woman and child there begging. Hurrying back home, she gets the coin given to her and gives it to the woman, who starts off with it to the nearest store. Here the coin is refused and the woman reported. She leads the officer to her youthful benefactress. The officer now takes the girl to the station, where she is closely questioned, but divulges only the information that she picked it up on the ground. The officer discharges her, but a secret service man is seen to follow at a distance and note well the house she enters. Waiting in the hallway the girl waylays the baker boy, and takes him into their room, where she packs into his basket the Contraband apparatus, and covering it with a large towel starts the boy off with instructions as to the disposition. The lad gets away without trouble, and really does net know the nature of the g-oods he is taking with him. Directly the parents return, and they are followed by a number df officers, who promptly search the house. The parents are very excited, and at the same time nonplused, because they cannot understand what has become of the outfit they left secreted in the house. The representatives of the law are beaten and obliged to return without the find they anticipated making. When the officers are out of the room the parents fondly caress their little daughter, who by her cunning has saved them from years of penal servitude. They now resolve to make an honest living.