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DRAMATIC.
G. D. 1677. THE COLONIAL SOLDIER. Price, $78.00.
Approximate Length, 650 feet.
It is a powerful drama of fascinating' interest, touching and full of intense pathos. This picture story without words unfolds in every inch of film beautiful episodes in the life of a soldier at home, the parting, en route to the battlefield, camp-fire life and return home.
The series opens with a faithful scene of a dock, where all is bustle, baggage men heaving large trunks, usual hangers-on, sailors and passengers. A soldier accompanied by his wife and child appear and board the auxiliary tug. The vessel steams off, passes several craft and finally reaches the ocean liner, a monster, which passes directly in front of us — giving a very instructive picture of one of the ocean greyhounds.
A gang plank is passed to the tug and the passengers are transferred to the steamship. Here a very touching scene is enacted as the soldier bids farewell to the two dearest to his heart. The woman with heavy heart and the child leave the steamship, which sails away amid the flutterings of many handkerchiefs. One is almost tempted to wave his handkerchief, so realistic is the scene.
The soldier's home is now shown, wherein his wife, lonely and in sorrow, is writing a letter, to which the baby, with the guiding hand of the mother, adds a postscript, then both kiss the letter and seal it.
The following series of views faithfully portrays camp life, tents, soldiers and sentries. A skirmish is enacted; the enemy, crouching, slowly creep up to the sentries and, discharging their guns, surprise them, but are repulsed, and in the melee our hero is wounded. Another camp scene, an orderly appears bearing letters, soldiers hastily and expectantly gather around the officer who distributes the mail. They squat on the ground and eagerly devour the contents. One unfortunate man, not having received any mail, a picture of despair and disappointment, is consoled by his comrades and resigns himself to his fate.
The last scene is that of the good ship returning with the soldiers; our hero eagerly runs down the gang plank to meet his faithful wife and child. The meeting scene sends a thrill of unalloyed sentiment and pleasure into every observer.
G. D. 3137. SAVED FROM THE WRECK. Price, $74.40.
Approximate Length, 620 feet.
A very pathetic story depicting scenes incident to coast life. The wrecking of a fisherman's craft, the suspense of the wife and
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