Loyalty
About Loyalty
Near Delft, the miller's daughter Kaatje and the shepherd Jef win a floral parade with a carriage covered in tulips. The next day lightning destroys the mill and kills her father, Schoonejans. The widow remembers that theatre manager Boolmans applauded the children's dancing. She takes Kaatje to Amsterdam. Boolmans hires her. Years later Kate is a famous dancer.
Cast & crew
More about Loyalty
Alfred Machin directed. Pathé Frères produced it. The French title is La Fille de Delft. Other titles are A Tragedy in the Clouds and The Girl from Delft. A listed theatrical date is April 23, 1914. Wikidata gives 68 minutes. A listing gives 71. Blanche Derval, Blanche Montel, Henri Goidsen, and Fernand Gravey are billed. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons under the French title, dated 1913 on that file.
Themes
Making
Machin stages the Delft parade and the Amsterdam engagement as one Pathé story.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The prize is for a tulip-covered carriage at the floral parade.
- The mill and the father go in the same lightning strike.
- Boolmans is the Amsterdam manager who had clapped at Delft.
- Gravey, later a French leading man, is in this cast as a boy.
Scenes
- Kaatje and Jef win the parade with the tulip carriage.
- Lightning takes the mill and her father.
