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  • The Emigrant (II) (1910)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Emigrant (II) (1910)
Short | Short, Drama
In this picture Selig has gone to the steerage of a trans-Atlantic liner to take up the first threads of his story. He follows a party of emigrants to Chicago, where they are being unloaded from a railroad train and sent to their ...See moreIn this picture Selig has gone to the steerage of a trans-Atlantic liner to take up the first threads of his story. He follows a party of emigrants to Chicago, where they are being unloaded from a railroad train and sent to their respective destinations. One of their number wearing an identification card in his hat which hears the information that he is "L. Jacoby, going to Omaha, Neb.," becomes confused and is lost in the crowd. Realizing that he is alone, a stranger in a strange land, and being unable to make himself understood by word of mouth, he wanders through the city until he chances to meet a stranger who will stop long enough to read his card and put him on his way. The stranger is kind. The traveler gives him his last few dollars to pay for transportation to Omaha. He is taken to an overhead railway and shoved aboard the train. He turns to thank his benefactor and finds himself alone, speeding over the city in an "L" train; his new-found friend and his money gone. We meet him again at the "L" terminus. Heartsick and weary, he takes up his aimless wandering; he is attacked and injured by a gang of street hoodlums when two good Samaritans, in the persons of a big-hearted Irishwoman and her son, take him, wounded and bleeding, into their home, where they nurse him back to health and give him his first insight into true Americanism. He has become a good and respected citizen of our United States; adversity has set a heavy hand upon his Irish benefactress and her son. He repays them in a way that will make you glad. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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William Nicholas Selig
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Updated Aug 29, 1910
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Aug 29, 1910 (United States)

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