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- A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of 'Savages' - exterminating all Native Americans. But there is hope when the band find a new beginning.
- A young American doctor and his brother are involved in an auto accident in a foreign country. The doctor happens to catch a glance of a beautiful princess and falls immediately in love. Meanwhile, in a neighboring country, the princess' husband--a spoiled wastrel who happens to look just like the doctor--is in pursuit of a courtesan. The doctor overhears a group of army officers plotting to kill the king and put the prince on the throne. Unfortunately for the doctor, the plotters mistake him for the prince. Complications ensue.
- A U.S. Cavalryman realizes that the young American Indian woman he loves is his long-lost sister, born to their mother after she was abducted while the family was making the trek westward.
- We are given very interesting views of snakes found in Asia Minor, mountainous Asia, and Europe. Chameleons, lizards and tortoises are included. Colors come out remarkably well.
- A story dealing with the lives of two farmer boys. At the beginning, Wallace is tired of the drudgery of farm life and determines to go to the city. There he meets with success and marries the cold, heartless daughter of a rich man. Meanwhile, John, the other brother, has married a sweet little country girl, and we see them in their happy home life with their children about them. No children have blessed the loveless union of Wallace, who has become a power in New York. Husband and wife drift apart, Wallace is finally caught in the whirlpool of Wall Street, and in order to save himself, uses funds entrusted to his care. In a panic on the Stock Exchange, Wallace is not only ruined himself, but brings ruin on others. He rushes home, tells his wife his story, and begs her help in replacing the funds he took. She refuses, and the desperate man goes to bis brother, whom he has long neglected, but he is followed, and shortly after he rushes into the quiet country home, begging for protection, the officers of the law enter. Before they can arrest him his overtaxed heart gives out, and he falls dead at the feet of the brother who represents "The Better Success."
- A society drama, laid in France, requiring gorgeous costumes, beautiful settings and fine acting. Jealousy and pride nearly ruin four lives, but to tell how would spoil the play for the audience.
- Two brothers love the same girl, she marries the elder, the younger takes to dissipation. Financially wrecked by gambling, he comes to his sister-in-law, and she helps him. In gratitude, he kisses her. Her husband returns in time to see this, and rushes away without waiting for an explanation. The husband writes a message to his wife stating that he knows her love for his brother and that he has committed suicide. This note, together with his hat, overcoat and pocketbook, he leaves upon the rocks, where it Is found by some fishermen, who take it to the wife, The shock of her husband's supposed death unseats his wife's reason. The demented woman seeing visions of her husband seated In his accustomed chair. As she tries to embrace him her arms pass through his phantom, she sinks back desperate. The husband reads of his wife's sad condition and hurries home. The family physician determines to try a desperate remedy. The husband is placed in the chair the vision has so long occupied. Once more the woman tries to embrace the vision and finds it flesh and blood. With a joyous cry of "He lives, he lives" she sinks limp into the arms of her husband.
- The King finds Simple, a drunken peasant by the wayside, takes him to the castle, and dresses him in royal robes. The fool is disguised as a woman and passed off as the Queen. The King is treated as a lackey, and until weary of the jest the court have a merry time. At home Mrs. Simple, a shrew, waits for her husband, then goes to the village inn and learns that the King has taken Simple to the castle. She rushes there, overthrows the guards and enters the throne room in time to see the fool seated on her husband's knee. She causes much trouble and is finally pushed outside the castle gates. The King wearies of this jest and Simple in his old clothes, his pockets full of gold, is taken to the roadside where the King found him. When he awakens from his drunken slumbers and sees his old clothes, he thinks it all a dream, but the gold in his pockets reassures him and he goes to the Inn. There he assumes kingly airs much to the amusement of the loiterers who humor him but his dream of glory is soon over. Mrs. Simple comes to the Inn and leads her royal husband off by the ear. At home poor Simple is forced to build the fire, and in the rising smoke he sees a vision of his few hours of kingly greatness.
- Mr. Strong finds the following letter, in his wife's handwriting on a carbon pad upon his desk: "Dear Billy: So glad to hear that you are back. Have missed you so. Meet me at Carlo's at 12:30. Am feeling 'blue' and want you to cheer me up. Lovingly, FLO." Naturally he has strong suspicions, not knowing who "Billy" is. Neither do you, by the way and the best method of satisfying your curiosity is to see this Kinemacolor comedy the first chance you have.
- An old woman sits by a trunk in the attic, beside her on the table stands a lighted candle. She takes from the trunk a child's dress and bonnet, a young girl's dress, a wedding veil and gown, a canteen, baby's clothes, an army belt and sword, and last of all a widow's dress and veil. As she tenderly takes up each treasure from the trunk the attic dissolves to the scene recalled by the article she holds in her hand, we see her a child with the boy lover, a young girl when the lover grows to manhood, her wedding; the journey across the plains in a wagon, when the last drop of water is drained from the canteen; her happiness in her cabin home with husband and baby; her grief as she fastens belt and sword upon her beloved husband and sends him forth to fight for their country; and finally, comforted by her child, she stands beside the grave of the husband who gave his life to his country's cause. Back to the attic, the old woman lies back in her chair, eyes closed. Surrounded by her treasures, her spirit has flown as the candle burns to its end.
- To save the life of his granddaughter the old violinist pawns his beloved instrument. When the girl recovers, both bend every effort to retrieve the violin. The girl goes out to work, the old man copies music, almost starving in his effort to save the pennies he earns. To the rich home comes a famous violinist. The account of his playing is read in a newspaper by the pawnbroker, and the old man's violin is sold to the rich musician. When the poor people have saved the ten dollars necessary to redeem the violin, they hasten to the pawn shop only to find that, the interest not having been paid, the violin has been sold. The rich and celebrated violinist is the guest of the people for whom the girl works. There she sees her grandfather's violin. She cannot resist the temptation to play upon it. The professor hears her and hastens into the music room. When he learns her story, he takes the girl and violin back to the old man, who hugs his lost treasure to his breast and, oblivious to all his surroundings, pours out his soul upon the violin.
- Suppose you were a young man about to "commit" matrimony. In fact, the hour for the ceremony is near at hand, when suddenly you find that your wedding garments are creased and need pressing. You send the obliging janitress around the comer to the tailor's, and volunteer to take care of the baby until her return. And she does not return. Such is the situation in which Bob finds himself. Meanwhile, the bride is "waiting at the church" until the impatient wedding party decide to go in search of the missing groom. Naturally, when they find him in bathrobe and pajamas, trying to pacify a squalling infant, pertinent questions as to its parentage arises. Neither party knows that the janitress has met with an accident while crossing the street, and has been taken to the hospital, so Bob is having a very hard time to explain "Whose Baby," when the bona fide father fortunately returns from work and settles this important question. "Wedding bells" for Bob and his bride, and a warm bottle of milk for the baby complete the happy climax to this merry mix-up.
- The launching of the U.S.S. New York, which took place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, October 30th, 1912, created an unusual amount of interest as this is the largest war vessel now afloat. The New York is 565 feet in length and 95 feet in width.
- Ned Patterson, who has been devoting his energies to increasing the importation of wine, is brought home by his pals in spectacular style. His head is wreathed with grape leaves, and he is draped with a white tablecloth, on which is painted the legend, "I am Bacchus, God of Wine." Father finds him in this state, and considers that the joke has gone far enough. So the next morning Ned finds the following note, "Inasmuch as you seem wedded to Bacchus, you had better use enclosed check in taking a reformatory honeymoon. Stay until I tell you to return Your Father." Ned is banished to a fishing beach in a "dry" county, and in throwing away his last flask, he encloses the following farewell note, "I am sinking with a schooner on the bar. To the finder of this I bequeath the fortune I have left with Bacchus, Ned Patterson." The flask floats out to sea, where it is caught in a fisher's net. The unsophisticated old fisherman goes to the city to find Mr. Bacchus and claim the fortune, leaving his daughter to tend the nets, in which Ned is speedily entangled. That she is a good fisher of men is proved by the telegram Ned sends to his father, "I have divorced Bacchus and married the daughter of a fisherman. What shall I do?" To which father replies, "Bring her home and make a living for her."
- The Kinemacolor Company of America has arranged with Gimbel Brothers to photograph in natural colors "La Parisienne Elegance in Her Boudoir," the demonstration, for ladies only, of the correct manner of wearing the latest styles of French lingerie. For this fashion display Paris has sent her loveliest and most novel specimens of under-apparel. Naturally such intimate displays are not for the general public, but these pictures will be supplied to theaters having the Kinemacolor fashion service with the understanding that they are to be shown only at special morning matinée performances for ladies only. The popularity of the "Fashion Parade" in Kinemacolor proved to exhibitors that style shows are something new in filmdom, and such a decided innovation has already resulted in renewed demand for the Kinemacolor Fashion Service.
- Contrasting the style of fashions in the olden days with those of the modern times.
- John Graham and his wife live in a small village, content with their modest home and the love of their little girl. A rich uncle dies and leaves the entire estate to John. The scene changes to gorgeous rooms, fashionable people, card playing and reckless spending and speculation. The fever of money making attacks John, and while he hangs over the ticker studying stock, the wife drifts into a flirtation with a man about town. Just at the most exciting point of the story John becomes a bankrupt, their child's life is despaired of, the wife's flirtation has reached the danger line. There is a nervous tension to this film which never relaxes until the child recovers, and then husband and wife leave for their village home.
- After the day's labor, the San Juan Capistrano Mission Fathers, returning from the fields, find a mother and a young child lying on the ground. The mother is dead, but the child lives. Francisco, taking the child in his arms, accompanied by Louis, returns to the Mission, while the other fathers bury the mother and offer prayers for the repose of her child. The baby grows up, and we see him eighteen years later ready for the holy orders to which Father Louis argues that he is destined, but Francisco advises the boy to go into the world and then make his choice. It was well suggested, for the boy had never seen the outside world, and fate leads him another way. After a series of romantic adventures in the semi-Spanish society of the period, Pedro returns to the only parents he has ever known to ask their permission to marry Senorita Isobel.
- The girl's brother goes to the bad and steals; he escapes the men who saw him steal and runs to his sister, who hides him in an old well. The sheriff and his men come to search the house, but find no one. The sheriff is in love with the girl and begs her forgiveness; this she does on on condition that he bring their friends and have a dance that night at her house. She hopes during the dance to let her brother make his escape. She succeeds in hiding him in her bed room. When the cowboys and girls come for the dance the girl will not allow any man to dance who carries a gun. They laughingly give them up to her. There is a rival to the girl, Ruth, who loves the sheriff also, but whom he does not love. Ruth finds out that the brother is in the house and tells the sheriff, but the men have no guns and the boy escapes. Before leaving the boy pins a note in his sister's sunbonnet, telling her to bring him a horse. The next day the sister finds the note, tears it up, but one piece, with the name of the cave, falls and Ruth gets it and takes it to the sheriff. He, with his men, starts after the boy. The sister arrives at the cave before the sheriff, where she changes clothes with her brother. When the sheriff and his men arrive, they see a girl riding down one road and a boy the other. They ride after the supposed boy. Unable to make the rider halt, they shoot, only to find they have shot the girl. In the end the girl forgives the sheriff and promises to marry him. The brother writes that he got away safely and promises to reform.