Woman sees visions, abandons her child in 1910s silent film
[From Paramount Screen Savers, date unknown] [actual film title not known] Woman carrying young girl staggers out from behind haystack, collapses at front; she sees something off-camera, staggers as she approaches it in wonder (viewer is given to believe that there's nothing there), leaving the girl asleep in the haystack / farmer approaches haystack with pitchfork, almost spears it when he notices the young girl; he calls his wife over; they comfort the girl, look for another person to no avail / mother returns to haystack, sees that child is gone, has another vision / mother staggers down street, approaching as she carries daughter; she chats with a man with a carriage, who wraps a small cloak around her and the girl; mother staggers wildly toward camera / Note: documentation incomplete





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Editorial #:
1132110154
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1932
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:01:15:07
Location:
United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003624_01_04.mov
- USA,
- 1930-1939,
- Abandoned,
- Adult,
- Approaching,
- Archival,
- Arts Culture and Entertainment,
- Black And White,
- Bulletin Board,
- Cape - Garment,
- Carriage,
- Carrying,
- Child,
- Daughter,
- Document,
- Dreamlike,
- Farm,
- Farmer,
- Females,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Girls,
- HD Format,
- Haystack,
- Incomplete,
- Leaving,
- Mother,
- Movie,
- Newsreel,
- Paramount Pictures,
- People,
- Pitchfork - Agricultural Equipment,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Time Video,
- Short Film Footage,
- Silent Film,
- Small,
- Spear,
- Street,
- Support,
- Talking,
- Wife,
- Women,