Paper print. Early motion picture made in United States. Civil War era dramatization. Slave mounted on horseback arrives at a house. He calls warning that Union troops are coming. The household gathers basket and he climbs up a tree to hide it. Union troops arrive but soon leave. The resident family arrives and celebrate that they suffered no loss.
Paper print. Early motion picture. Dramatization: Poverty stricken family. Woman lies on bed in a room. Small boy sits on floor. Daughter prepares to go begging for help. The girl prays on the stoop outside the home of wealthy people, who see her as they come out of their house. She then accosts a man walking on the avenue. He rebuffs her. The wealthy couple comes out of store accompanied by boy carrying large basket of groceries. The little girl enters her humble abode. The wealthy couple follows her with groceries, and they offer help to her mother.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in United States. Woman argues with her mother and then runs from home to theater stage door, where she wrings her hands before deciding to enter. She dresses in costume to perform but is in anguish about it. Manager tells her to leave. She meets her mother as she leaves the theater stage door. Back home again, woman and mother continue to be troubled
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization : Snowy day. Woman is accosted by two ruffians, and rescued by policeman, as newsboy watches from doorway. Inside a modest house, Santa Claus talks with an angel holding an illuminated star. The woman and her husband carry christmas bundles, to door of newsboy's house, as policeman watches. Inside, the newsboy tries on new clothes.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization: Couple takes leave of elderly gentlemen in parlor. Woman enters carriage outside the house and man leaves. The woman returns to the elderly gentleman and introduces a boy who agrees to work for him as a bellboy. The woman watches as the boy fights with another on a street in bad neighborhood. Clothes hanging out in alley. The elderly man lies on floor as the bellboy and others gather around. One calls police. The bellboy is arrested and loses his job. He is home with his mother and criminals listen from next door. Police break in and arrest the criminals. Scene in courtroom: woman testifies against the real criminals.
Paper print. Early motion picture made in the United States. Dramatization : Two women take leave of a man. He and men friends gather. Couple dining alone. Man rushes into parlor where woman sits with cat. He tells her something and they both rush to be home when women arrive. Man on knees as he talks to woman.
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