rescued british short silent drama film directed dog leads master kidnapped baby feature family starring role following release dog household considered dog film star film according marks key stage medium development amusing novelty seventh art possibly point film history british cinema led world advance filming techniques editing production story telling prints sold wore twice requiring film shot time professional actors paid appear film cited film paid actors style shooting editing bridge gap styles directors prints preserved united_states united_kingdom plot film opens playing child fireplace later day baby taken nurse nurse refuses aid woman distracted meeting soldier talking soldier pays attention baby woman approaches sleeping child scene nurse confesses mother child lost sitting room jumping window racing street going corner river dog makes way barges door finds right enters attic woman removing clothing child dog enters driven dog leaves house river street master mistress home study child father sitting enters pleads follow leave man following dog river boat enter room child hidden father quickly takes child woman leaves dog return home child placed arms mother happily production rescued predominantly family affair cecil wife margaret wrote scenario played role mother screen directed painted scenery acted father child baby screen played family dog blair professional actors paid appear soldier wife old woman stole baby actors paid half guinea recall couldn film cited film paid actors completing cast previously played alice version alice wonderland child nurse clark cutting room assistant movie successful shoot entire film twice wore meeting demand prints release rescued considered united_kingdom major fiction film prints sold price circulated years character dog played family household considered world film star appearance dog narrative based film caused uncommon popular dogs legacy previous films company considered continuation cinema attractions years 20th century period film makers began placing higher emphasis portraying narrative story lesser image ability film considered step forward film grammar structure contemporary audiences find scholar noted format familiar fans dog character gave rise number chase films centred animals including later film dumb rescued parallels debut film adventures rescued contains shots considerable advance compared feels run contains single shot film longer demonstrated advances film language editing shooting additionally editing rescued notable use time journeys considerably time portrayal reality linking shots attempted avoid confusion earlier multi shot films great train robbery shots set plot baby stolen woman nearly following shots tracking child dog returns home shots settings repeated reverse dog travels shown original order time dog brings father fourth repetition radically time spared showing return room followed shot reunited family form structure consideration rescued shows growing understanding directors stories told film belief audience need family return home instead assume occurred woman returning duration shot correspond time necessary father family dog travel affect sense realistic screen representation improvements modern viewers find relatively minor noted day attic scenes instance use arc lights celebrated early use harsh lighting conditions create indicate dangerous setting prints saved library congress film archive
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