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A Happy Thanksgiving

  • 1911
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DramaShort

Jimmy is a little, motherless boy, whose rich father neglects him. Jimmy pleads with him to eat Thanksgiving dinner at home. Father is called out of town, however, and phones to the governes... Read allJimmy is a little, motherless boy, whose rich father neglects him. Jimmy pleads with him to eat Thanksgiving dinner at home. Father is called out of town, however, and phones to the governess. At the depot he changes his mind and decides to go home to Jimmy, but the lad has alrea... Read allJimmy is a little, motherless boy, whose rich father neglects him. Jimmy pleads with him to eat Thanksgiving dinner at home. Father is called out of town, however, and phones to the governess. At the depot he changes his mind and decides to go home to Jimmy, but the lad has already received the message, and, grief-stricken, runs away. A farmer who had unsuccessfully t... Read all

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    • Mace Greenleaf
    • Charles Herman
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    There was no suggestion of the particular holiday except in the title

    It is very hard to get into a picture the atmosphere that belongs to any particular holiday; it is too elusive. The backgrounds of this picture seem to indicate warmer weather than we have at Thanksgiving in this neighborhood. Let that be as it is, there was no suggestion of the particular holiday except in the title. It is, however, a very interesting and human picture. It tells a story of a rich, but careless man who. at the dinner table of a farmer, on whom he had been very hard, found his only child, a little boy, motherless and neglected, who had run away from a cheerless home and had been cared for by the farmer and his motherly wife. The father had been searching for a day and a night, when the farmer, having discovered who the lost child was. sent a message to him. He is taught a lesson in brotherly love and charity. He destroys the mortgage on the farm that he holds and sits down at a happy dinner table with the farmer's family. The picture will be liked very much. - The Moving Picture World, December 9, 1911

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    • Release date
      • November 29, 1911 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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      • English
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      • Reliance Film Company
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      • Black and White
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      • Silent
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      • 1.33 : 1

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