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DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

1979-0191

Film

1913

1913-04-13

Rex Motion Picture Co.

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Part of second half of a fiction film. Ethel received a letter calling her back East to try for a part in a show. Her fiancé refuses to let her go. They both emote. The man hurries out into the forest, accidentally finds gold nuggets in a carrek and rushes home to tel of his find. Meanwhile, Ethel pawns her engagement ring for a railway ticket to the big town. The fiancé finds her note and reacts. Ethel arrives at the theatre an dis welcomed back by friends. She is a success, but she misses the man back home. She returns home for a visit. By this time, the fiancé, distraught and woebegone, takes his pistol out of the trunk and goes into the forest, wandering around casting gold nuggets to the four winds. Ethel arrives at the cabin and finds him gone. He stands by a stream where he discovered the gold, takes out Ethel's photo and kisses it fondly. <4mn 35s>

Silent with English intertitles

Libre

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Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.

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