This little short shows an entirely different society from the one we are used to, one in which a woman coyly throws her hat into the water to attract a man's attention, where lovers exchange tintypes, and in which, when they wish to neck at the beach, they use umbrellas to hide their activities from passersby. The leads are having fun and Jean the Vitagraph dog is a handsome, intelligent actor -- with a nose job and implants she could be the rage in the 21th century.
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In Days Gone By
drednm26 January 2020
Sweet 1-reeler stars Florence Turner and Leo Delaney in a simple story of love found, love lost, and love found again.
On a beach in Maine during a long-ago summer Florence decides to meet a man walking along with his dog (Jean the Vitagraph dog). So she throws her hat in the sea and yells for help. The man comes along and sends Jean into the water to fetch the hat. There's a mutual attraction.
They go to a boardwalk (the newly built Palace Playland) and have their pictures (tin-types) taken. That night, each places the picture in a locket. Loves seems to have bloomed. But the next day they have a lover's quarrel over a misunderstanding about the pictures and they part. But Jean takes the correct picture of Florence to her while she sleeps on the beach (actually Portland's Back Cove). When she wakes she sends the picture of Leo she has in her locket back to him via Jean. They make up.
Th final shot has the lovers huddling on a rock while they gaze out to sea and Jean trying to get up on the rock with them. The End.
This was filmed in the Portland, Maine area in 1910 by Laurence Trimble (Jean's trainer) as one of a series of films shot that summer. Jean was one of the very first dog stars and was hugely popular with audiences.
It's interesting to note in the scene where Florence Turner is letting down her hair, the B&M bean factory can be seen across the cove. It's still there today.
On a beach in Maine during a long-ago summer Florence decides to meet a man walking along with his dog (Jean the Vitagraph dog). So she throws her hat in the sea and yells for help. The man comes along and sends Jean into the water to fetch the hat. There's a mutual attraction.
They go to a boardwalk (the newly built Palace Playland) and have their pictures (tin-types) taken. That night, each places the picture in a locket. Loves seems to have bloomed. But the next day they have a lover's quarrel over a misunderstanding about the pictures and they part. But Jean takes the correct picture of Florence to her while she sleeps on the beach (actually Portland's Back Cove). When she wakes she sends the picture of Leo she has in her locket back to him via Jean. They make up.
Th final shot has the lovers huddling on a rock while they gaze out to sea and Jean trying to get up on the rock with them. The End.
This was filmed in the Portland, Maine area in 1910 by Laurence Trimble (Jean's trainer) as one of a series of films shot that summer. Jean was one of the very first dog stars and was hugely popular with audiences.
It's interesting to note in the scene where Florence Turner is letting down her hair, the B&M bean factory can be seen across the cove. It's still there today.
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