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As It Was in the Beginning (1912)
Short | Drama, Short

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As It Was in the Beginning (1912)

Short | Drama, Short

A society girl, admired and courted by many men is still indifferent to one and all. At a dance one evening there is introduced to her a man who shows that he is attracted by the girl, but unlike the other suitors, he does not flatter her....See moreA society girl, admired and courted by many men is still indifferent to one and all. At a dance one evening there is introduced to her a man who shows that he is attracted by the girl, but unlike the other suitors, he does not flatter her. With her thoughts all of the stranger, she sits alone, musing. It seems to her that she is carried backward many centuries to a time when by her supposed magic arts, she reigned over a tribe of cave men. But in her rude court one day there appears a stranger who derided her powers. The others would have attacked him, but she stayed the hands the stranger walked off. The stranger stirred up her heretofore loyal subjects to rebellion. They stormed her cave, but her magic was still potent and she drove them off. But the stranger remained and finally took him prisoner, dragging her back to the village of the men who had once held her as a queen, where they decided to put her to death. The stranger however, balked their plans and told them that she belonged to him, and ordered them out of his way. When they tried to bar his progress, he fought his way through them and to safety in the wilderness outside, with her in his arms. She comes back to a realization of the present with a start. The stranger stands before her, asks for the next dance. In a daze she rises and takes his arm, and walks with him toward the ballroom. And all the way the one thought running through her head: "I wonder if he is the man?" For the stranger at the dance looked exactly like the man who in the prehistoric past subjugated the goddess and fought the timid cave men, who first worshiped her and then wanted to put her to death. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less