| 00:02:00 120 |
pastoral view of countryside
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| 00:02:20 140 |
family gathered around fire at home reading
knitting boy studying NICE SHOT OF CIRCA 1900 FAMILY RELAXING AT HOME |
| 00:04:30 270 |
cu rooster crowing MORNING
cu cow |
| 00:04:50 290 |
boy plays with dog mother toiling in early
kitchen MORNING TIME FOR RURAL FAMILY mother takes jar of preserves out of cupboard |
| 00:06:00 360 |
mother rings breakfast bell rings bell to
call family BREAKFAST IS SERVED boy and dog swimming swiming at old swimming hole MANY SCENES OF IDEALIC COUNTRY LIFE SIMPLE LIFE RURAL LIFESTYLES circa 1900s |
| 00:07:00 420 |
shy boy confrontrs pretty young girl and runs off
embarresment naked boy wears barrel for clothes |
| 00:08:40 520 |
cu beautiful young country girl
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| 00:09:10 550 |
rural family meal scene family says grace at
breakfast table family breakfast RURAL FAMILY VALUES FAMILY PRAYER AT MEAL |
| 00:10:50 650 |
mother pours coffee for family
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| 00:11:32 692 |
bustling little West Virginia town circa 1900
horse and buggy drives through village |
| 00:12:00 720 |
PASTORAL SCENE farm boy drives cows down rural
road while playing harmonica |
| 00:13:30 810 |
farm boy impresses pretty girl with pocket knife
game MUMBLE PEG |
| 00:16:40 1000 |
boy and dog catch fish from stream by hand to
impress girl showing off |
| 00:22:00 1320 |
inbred hillbilly rube types CRUEL UNWELCOME
RELATIVES MOVE IN ON FATHER AND DAUGHTER |
| 00:27:00 1620 |
horse and buggy race down country road
rural doctor arrives to deliver baby |
| 00:29:30 1770 |
men toast birth of child cheers
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| 00:32:00 1920 |
cu pretty girl crying sad
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| 00:35:30 2130 |
ms man has heart attack
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| 00:36:00 2160 |
rural hillbillies cracking nuts on stone
GOOD SHOT OF RUBE OR INBRED STEREOTYPE |
| 00:41:00 2460 |
mortally wounded man carried from buggy to cabin
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| 00:41:35 2495 |
woman expresses shock in ms
scene where family is told wounded son is crippled for life FATHER PLANS REVENGE |
| 00:48:20 2900 |
older man has coronary or heart attack and dies
man drops dead morning mother grabs boys leg to stop him from leaving RESTRAINS BOY |
| 00:53:20 3200 |
family moves moving day packed belongings in wagon
woman washing clothes in wash basin |
| 01:00:00 3600 |
country dance scene rural couples waltz to fiddle
string band BARN DANCE |
| 01:12:20 4340 |
horse and buggy race down rural country road
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| 01:18:00 4680 |
rape scene young country girl chased through
field by inbred rural hillbilly |
| 01:19:00 4740 |
shoot out in cabin MS man attacks boy with chair
boy murders man |
| 01:24:00 5040 |
cu sinister man walks into camera stalks boy
fight for gun in hand to hand conflict |
| 01:30:40 5440 |
boy runs over primative foot bridge
nice rural life scene barefoot farm boy runs over stream on foot bridge |
| 01:33:00 5580 |
cu grieving young girl dying boy in the arms of
mother wounded boy cradled in arms of mother death scene |
Specialty CollectionGenre: SILENT FEATURE FILMS
Description: Side 1 00 00 00 Side 2 00 51 00 RICHARD BARTHELMESS, MARION ABBOTT, EDMUND GURNEY, WARNER RICHMOND, PATTERSON DIAL, GLADYS HULETTE, FORREST ROBINSON, WALTER P. LEWIS, ERNEST TORRENCE, RALPH YEARSLEY, LAWRENCE EDDINGER. DRAWS UPON THE DAVID & GOLIATH MYTH, AS WE SEE DAVID FOR THE FIRST TIME STUDYING THE PICTURE OF THE YOUNG SHEPHERD CONFRONTING THE MENACING GIANT. AS A BOY HE FLEETS THE TIME, CARELESSLY ENJOYING THE PLEASURES OF HIS YOUTH & THE GREEN WORLD. YOUNG DAVID LIVES IN A PLACE CALLED GREENSTREAM; IT LIES IN A GENTLE VALLEY BEHIND THREE GREAT RANGES OF MOUNTAINS. THE SKIES SEEM TO BE BLUER IN GREENSTREAM, IT IS ALWAYS SUMMER, AND THE COUNTRY FLOWS WITH SPARKLING STREAMS BORDERED WITH WILD MINT. IDYLLIC. MEADOWS ARE DOTTED WITH GRAZING SHEEP, ROLLING UP TO THE WOODED CRESTS. ROMANTICALLY, & LOVINGLY THE EXPERIENCE OF NATURE. PASTORAL. RURAL LIFE. DAVID PLAYS THE HARMONICA. MORNING IMAGES OF COCK CROWING, WILD CHERRY IN BLOSSOM, HOT CAKES & COFFEE. IMAGES OF A SWIMMING HOLE, EVENING PRAYERS, TROUT-SPEARING AND MUMBLE-PEG, FISHING, COUNTRY LIFE. DAVID PLAYS WITH HIS DOG, LOOKS LOVINGLY AT NEIGHBOR HATBURN'S GRANDDAUGHTER ESTHER (WHO HERDS COWS), SWINGS ON A GATE, AND SITS ON A SPLIT RAIL FENCE TO FANTASIZE ABOUT DRIVING THE MAIL HIMSELF & RECEIVING THE ADMIRATION OF ESTHER (AT WHICH POINT THE FENCE COLLAPSES). A STORY OF COMING OF AGE, THE RITE OF INITIATION WHICH SIGNIFIES THE PASSAGE FROM ADOLESCENCE INTO ADULTHOOD. HE CAN'T SMOKE OR DRINK. ATTEMPTS TO SMOKE TO MAKE ESTHER LAUGH. TROUBLE ARRIVES, 3 OUTLAWS FROM THE NEXT STATE INVADE THE HOME OF THEIR HATBURN RELATIVES. STRANGERS IN TOWN. TERRORIZING FAMILY, HELD CAPTIVE. DAVID'S OLDER BROTHER IS ATTACKED, HE IS MERCILESSLY STOMPED UPON AND LIES MOTIONLESS IN THE DUST, CRIPPLING HIM. UPON LEARNING OF HIS SON'S LIFE-LONG PARALYSIS, THE FATHER VOWS REVENGE. HIS FATHER HAS A HEART-ATTACK & DIES, SO NOW YOUNG DAVID MUST HONOR FAMILY CODE AND PUNISH THE FUGITIVES, AS THEY DESERVE & SUPPORT THE FAMILY. HE CANNOT DO BOTH. HIS MOM DOES NOT WANT HIM TO GO AND IN TYPICAL CLICHE, SHE GRABS AT HIS LEGS AS HE TRIES TO LEAVE, TRYING TO STOP HIM. DAVID STAYS HOME TO PLEASE HIS MOTHER, BUT NOW GET DISAPPROVAL FROM THE COMMUNITY FOR SHIRKING A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. UNABLE TO MANAGE THE LAND THEY HAVE BEEN FARMING, THEY MUST PACK UP & MOVE TO THE CITY WHERE MOM TAKES ON A WASHER WOMAN JOB. LOSING EVERYTHING, DAVID MUST SWEEP FLOOR AT JOHN GALT'S STORE. ONE DAY THE MAIL DRIVER SHOWS UP TOO DRUNK TO DRIVE. A PASSENGER ON ON THE CARRIER IS WORRIED THAT HE WILL BE LATE & MISS HIS CONNECTION AT THE DEPOT. DAVID TAKES ON THE JOB, HOWEVER THE OUTLAW STEALS A BAG OF MAIL THAT HAS FALLEN OFF THE BUGGY. DAVID FEARLESSLY CONFRONTS THE GIANT & THE 2 WRESTLE WITH EACH OTHER IN A FEROCIOUS CONTEST. MEN FIGHT. MOM WAITS AT THE STORE CHATTING WITH NEIGHBORS. DAIVD'S PASSAGE INTO MANHOOD. SOUTHERN, RURAL COMMUNITY. OLD-FASHIONED VALUES OF DETERMINATION, FAMILY & RESPONSIBILITY.
