Release Date

26 Jun, 1912

Runtime

00:17: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.

Original Title

The School Teacher and the Waif

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Actors

Edwin August

Mary Pickford

Charles Hill Mailes

Bert Hendler

Claire McDowell

William A. Carroll

Robert Harron

Kate Bruce

Josephine Crowell

Ella Hall

Grace Henderson

Mae Marsh

Frank Opperman

Alfred Paget

Jack Pickford

Antrim Short

Crew

D.W. Griffith

Billy Bitzer