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  • The Price of Thoughtlessness (1913)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Price of Thoughtlessness (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
The children are gathered in the schoolroom, listening to a lecturer who, with pointer and charts, discourses upon the dangers of the city street and shows how to avoid them. When he is through he presents each child with a safety button ...See moreThe children are gathered in the schoolroom, listening to a lecturer who, with pointer and charts, discourses upon the dangers of the city street and shows how to avoid them. When he is through he presents each child with a safety button as a reminder of his advice. Howard, Mabel and Bobby remain after the other children to ask a few additional questions. After school Bobby lives up to the button by notifying the police of a live wire he discovers on the car track. He is praised by the crowd on the scene for his thoughtfulness. Through Howard's carelessness little Mabel narrowly escapes death when she falls in front of a streetcar, and is saved by the safety device on the car. She is crossing the track with Howard. Both are on roller skates. Running in front of a northbound car, they suddenly discover that a car coming south is heading them off. Howard jumps to safety, but his sister is not so quick and falls before the car. An automobile coming south on the avenue stalls, forcing a wagon to cut in to the left between the elevated railroad posts onto the car track in order to pass. Just as the wagon is hauled onto the track the car crashes into it, crumbling it to pieces and crushing the driver beneath the wreckage, all due to thoughtlessness. Some boys are playing ball on a side street. Howard, the catcher, misses the ball, which bounds away across the car track on the avenue. He runs after it blindly, and suddenly realizes that he is between two cars. Bewildered, he leaps for safety, jumping in front of a speeding automobile, which runs over him. Howard is crippled for life. After many days of suffering he is taken from his bed in the hospital for a ride in a roller chair. He sees boys and girls playing tag and leap-frog on the hospital lawn, and with tear-filled eyes, realizes the terrible price of his thoughtlessness. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Ned Finley
Writer
Ray Hanford (story) (as Roy Hanford)
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Updated Nov 11, 1913
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Nov 11, 1913 (United States)

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