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  • The Christmas Spirit (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Christmas Spirit (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Old Harry, the derelict, climbs out of a box car and is kicked and beaten off by a trainman. He tramps the railroad to a town and going to a kitchen door, begs for food. A Christmas Eve party is on and he is taken in, given clothes and ...See moreOld Harry, the derelict, climbs out of a box car and is kicked and beaten off by a trainman. He tramps the railroad to a town and going to a kitchen door, begs for food. A Christmas Eve party is on and he is taken in, given clothes and made up as Santa Claus. After the party, and the children go to bed, old Harry breaks down and tells his story to Mary and John, brother and sister, each married with children. The derelict's story: Harry, a sailor, has a wife and two children in a nice cottage in a seaport town. It is a happy family. He goes away on a voyage and is wrecked at sea. His wife reads of the wreck and that all on board have been drowned. Harry is washed up on a deserted beach in a strange country. Months later he makes his way home, only to find the house deserted, so he continues his wanderings for years in search of his loved ones. He tells his hearers the last he saw of his wife and children was their sailing a little boat he had carved. John and Mary looked at a small dismantled bark above the fireplace, and, showing it and an old photo in the family album to him, they recognize old Harry as their long-lost father. The grandchildren come down in their night clothes, and the picture fades with the kiddies climbing all over their grandpap's knees. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Murdock MacQuarrie
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Updated Dec 19, 1914
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Dec 19, 1914 (United States)

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