If We Only Knew
About If We Only Knew
A wealthy couple leave their small daughter with a nurse and go out. The nurse reads. The child takes her doll down to the beach, climbs into an empty boat, and drifts out. Fishermen find her and take her to their house. The nurse raises the alarm. The parents reach the shore and find only a bonnet and a doll carriage, and they think the child has drowned. The period synopsis has the fishermen bring her home.
Cast & crew
More about If We Only Knew
D. W. Griffith directed. George Hennessy wrote it. Biograph released it in the United States on 1 May 1913. Henry B. Walthall plays the father, Blanche Sweet the mother, Harry Carey a sailor, and William Courtright a minister. A circulating copy runs about 10 minutes.
Themes
Preservation
A print of about 10 minutes is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Moving Picture World synopsis built the story on a verse about a child's fingerprints on the window, which would not seem a nuisance if the child were gone.
- Harry Carey is billed as the sailor who is with the fishermen.
Scenes
- The child steps into the unattended boat with her doll.
- The parents find the bonnet and the doll carriage on the sand.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (If We Only Knew (1913).webm)
