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The Spirit of Audubon (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

The Spirit of Audubon (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

The name of Audubon is one to conjure with to the little daughter of a widow who has made a hobby of the study of birds and their welfare, and has instilled this same love into the heart of her daughter. Living next to the lady and her ...See moreThe name of Audubon is one to conjure with to the little daughter of a widow who has made a hobby of the study of birds and their welfare, and has instilled this same love into the heart of her daughter. Living next to the lady and her child are a widower and his son. The widower believes in everything the widow believes in, but he has never paid much attention to her Audubon theories or bothered to teach his son anything concerning the protection of birds. The two families are friends, and the two children play together a great deal. Their first quarrel arises, however, when the little girl finds the boy trying to rob a bird's nest. While he is up in the tree she goes after her mother to aid her in saving the bird's eggs. The little boy comes out of the tree, but is very angry at his little friend and goes off home in a huff. That night both children have the same kind of dream. In the dream the spirit of Audubon comes to them. He is much pleased with the little girl, but angry with the boy for not loving birds. He takes the children, and they go wandering off into foreign lands. They observe birds of all species, making their nests, feeding their young, making love in bird fashion and doing all the hundreds of things that make birds interesting the world over. The lesson of the dream has been so vivid that he wants to apologize to his little friend and tell her how sorry he is for his action of the day before, but when he gets to her house learns that she and her mother have gone to the big Audubon celebration, which is being held by lovers of birds in honor of the big man who first went on record as the friend of the little feathered things. He begs his father to take him to see it, too. At the celebration both father and son are delighted with the parades and the floats and the speeches. The little boy decides that he will become a champion of birds from henceforth, and when he and his father meet the little girl and her mother, he proclaims his intention. Both the boy and his father are taken into the society, and as they watch a wreath being placed on a monument in commemoration of the man who loved birds the spirit of Audubon rises above the top of the monument and smiles lovingly at his latest adherents. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Lawrence Swinburne Audubon Audubon See fewer	Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player (1916)
Helen Badgley Daisy Daisy See fewer	The Fires of Youth (1917)
Leland Benham Dicky Dicky See fewer	Jack and the Beanstalk (1913)
Theodore Roosevelt Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Simple Gifts (1977)