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A Telepathic Warning, the Story of a Child’s Love for Her Father
(1909) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 675 feet
Directed by [?] J. Stuart Blackton?
Cast: (unknown)
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / © 28 December 1908 by The Vitagraph Company of America [H120414]. Released 9 January 1909; in a split-reel with He Went to See the Devil Play (1909). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? During the Civil War a Down East family are seated about a large table. A little girl is playing on the floor with a doll. The day following the mother is in the garden watering the flowers, the child playing nearby when a Federal sergeant with a squad of soldiers halts outside the gate. The officer enters, talks to the mother, who is overcome at the sad news. The father is summoned, reads the contents of the document, accepts the inevitable, explains to the women that he has been drafted and must go to war. He gathers together a few necessaries, kisses the family good-bye and departs with the soldiers. Proceeding to the scene of action the sergeant is seen marching a squad through the clearing in the forest, the father of our previous scene the last of the party. They halt and the sergeant posts the Yankee as a sentry, and after giving him the countersign, marches off with the squad. The guard left alone, lights his pipe, sits on a stump and presently falls asleep. He dreams of home, wife, mother and little girl. He can see the little child being put to bed. In her sleep the little one tosses about restlessly, finally sits up and sees her father asleep at his post. A scouting party of Confederates are about to surround and capture him. She jumps from her crib and runs toward him with outstretched arms. He moves, partially awakens and he sees his child running toward him as if in warning. He starts to his feet, realizing that he has been dreaming. The impression has been so vivid that he instinctively looks to the priming of his gun just as a party of Confederates enter the clearing bent on his capture. He fires upon them, is wounded himself, but the shots have attracted attention of his comrades, and they come to his aid and capture the enemy. Returning to the New England home, the little girl is returning from school, she loiters a moment at the gate, spies her father coming in the distance and runs to meet him. The closing scene shows the wounded man, now a captain, seated in an easy chair with his wounded foot propped on a stool. Three officers enter and present him with a medal for his bravely. To them he tells the story of his dream, takes the medal, which has been pinned on his breast, and puts it on his little girl.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 January 2025.
References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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