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Mother Goose (1909)
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Generation after generation has known and loved these fanciful rhymes for the little folk and like beads on a ribbon they are here strung together on a pretty little thread of a story. The hero is a little lad who has fallen asleep with ...See moreGeneration after generation has known and loved these fanciful rhymes for the little folk and like beads on a ribbon they are here strung together on a pretty little thread of a story. The hero is a little lad who has fallen asleep with the sound of the rhymes in his ear to the tune of his mother's voice. When she leaves him, the book beside him falls to the floor and wonder of wonders! Mother Goose herself springs right from it. She touches the boy and invites him to journey with her through Mother Goose Land. His adventures there begin with a call upon that bewitching Mary who was so contrary, and there he sees Mary's garden flowers change right before his eyes into rows of smiling little damsels. But when he goes to shake hands with them, why they are not girls at all but funny little dwarfs or gnomes. Next he visits that famous old woman who lived in a shoe and every child knows how many children, she had. But no children have seen what happened to the old woman's landlord when he came to collect the rent for the shoe. A good fairy prevented his troubling the large family, by transforming him into thin air. And Jack and Jill! Every child has heard of that roll down the hill but it is much better to have seen it and in the Edison showing of this story, it all happened just as it has been told. The last visit is a very exciting one, for while the small boy is watching and about ready to make the acquaintance of Little Miss Muffit a very, very large spider of most ferocious aspect appears and not only frightens the little lady away but actually picks up the little boy and starts with him for the tree far above their heads. Very fortunately our small hero awakes just in time to be saved by his own little mother, who strangely enough didn't see the spider at all when she hears him call. Some people might think he dreamed the whole thing, but no real child would entertain such a thought. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Jul 27, 1909
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Jul 27, 1909 (United States)

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