His duty - movie film screenshot
Summary
It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the lining. Jack then goes to work and Bob goes out also. Later in the evening, Jack is called to the scene of a robbery, where he finds the cap with his brother's initials. Dismayed by the idea that his brother is a thief, he goes home and confronts Bob with the evidence. Though it breaks their mother's heart, Jack does his duty and leads his brother out in handcuffs.
H12770 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Biograph Co.; 28May1909; H12770.
Kate Bruce, Frank Powell, Owen Moore, Arthur Johnson, Marion Leonard, David Miles, Mary Pickford, Violet Mersereau, Robert Harron.
Camera, Arthur Marvin, G.W. Bitzer.
According to the website, Search for a Film Legacy: Mary Pickford (1909-1933), interior titles are lacking from all LC copies.
Photographed May 10-12, 1909 in Edgewater, New Jersey and in the Biograph studio in New York City.
Part of summary from The Griffith project, v. 2.
Biograph production no. 3580.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2474) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 137; The Griffith project, v. 2, program sequence no. 149; Biograph production logs; Biograph bulletins, 1908-1912, p. 94; Christel Schmidt's The Search for a Film Legacy: Mary Pickford (1909-1933) WWW site, viewed April 13, 2015.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
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