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The End of the Road : [incomplete]

Item number (ISN):

20100

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1918

Item number (ISN):

20100

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

UNIDENTIFIED

Accession:

1973-0141

Media:

Film

Production date:

1918

Release date:

1919

Production company:

The American Social Hygiene Council

Production credit:

director/producer/scenario, Edward H. Griffith; scenario/story, Katherine Bement Davis; photography, Lucien Andriot

Cast credit:

Richard Bennett, Claire Adams, Joyce Fair, Raymond McKee, Maude Hill, Robert Cain, Arthur Houseman, Alice Brady

Sponsor:

The War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities

Description:

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This reel, the final reel in the film, starts with the intertitle "For weeks Mary's mother has been troubled over a stubborn infection on Blanche's lip". Footage of a doctor looking at the girl's face and the girl looking anxious, as an older woman looks on. The next intertitle states that it is not a fever blister. Next, the doctor looks at her lip with a magnifying glass and a close-up shows a sore on her lip. The doctor asks if someone has kissed her lately. She thinks about this and the scene switches to a man kissing her. Back at the doctor's office, the doctor says that he is going to test for syphilis. She faints. The next intertitle, Off for Liberty, shows a soldier and a woman looking at a skyline, the Statute of Liberty in the distance, a group of soldiers, another shot of the statue, soldiers on the deck of a ship, the soldier and the woman walking on the deck, another ship nearby in camouflage paint, an intertitle indicating that Vera adhered faithfully to the treatment and the blood test was negative, an intertitle indicating that she is happy in the consciousness of having done her part in the world struggle, cut to a scene of a woman at work in a factory, apparently doing war work, cut to a battle scene overseas, where an advance field dressing station is in a sector in which Germans are shelling with insane fury, scene of a nurse tending to soldiers, close-up of an injured soldier, juxtaposed shots of the scene at the dressing station and artillery explosions on the battlefield, medics loading a soldier on a stretcher into an ambulance, a nurse comes out of a cavern at the dressing station, another shot of an ambulance picking up wounded, a soldier and nurse, close-up of a soldier smoking a cigarette, another ambulance with stretcher, nurse with basin, a soldier warning that the dressing station may be bombed any minute, intertitle apparently quoting the nurse stating "I'm going to stay -- you'll need someone who can put on bandages properly, soldier on stretcher, battlefield scene, nurse touches soldier on chest and asks "is there still someone else back home"", they kiss, and a crowd of civilians cheersand waving flags in a town as soldiers march in, juxtaposed with a shot of the smiling couple. <8mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Claire Adams, who played Mary Lee, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.~2. This version has English-language intertitles only.~3. For complete versions see IDC ISN 181015 (102-minute version with French and English intertitles), IDC ISN 20097 (62-minute version with English intertitles), IDC ISN 21705 (100mn 45s version with French and English intertitles) and IDC ISN 21706, another bilingual version.

Genre:

DRAMA
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