In Golden Days (1908)
A band of men, with their wives and children are crossing the valley of the Humboldt on their way to the gold fields of California. Suddenly the train stops, a horse and man come into view. He is recognized as the game hunter of the band. He tells them of a camp of white men further ahead. The next scene shows the now excited caravan moving briskly and joyously on, anxious to meet people of their race. The third scene discloses a white camp of dead men and women killed by Indians. The caravan arrives. Horror stricken, they find the only living being to be a girl child of 5 years. The hunter's son, a boy of 9, runs forward and takes up the child. The coming picture shows us the caravan encamped for the night. The huntsman tells the boy to sing the child to sleep. The boy does so. After song the caravan lies down to rest for the night. When all are asleep Indians enter and kill everyone except the boy and girl. He sings his song, and the Indians, believing him to possess a spirit voice, leave him with the child. The scenes that follow disclose the finding of the boy and child, their adoption by miners of a gold camp, and after several years have passed, rich relatives of the girl arrive and take her to Europe. The boy is broken-hearted. An old musician of the camp, knowing the value of the boy's voice, decides to take him as a traveling singer to Europe. We are shown the boy and old musician singing in the streets, until one day a famous composer by chance happens to hear him. He takes the boy and makes a famous singer of him. Later the boy, now a young man, is seen singing in a theater. The girl, now a young lady, sits in the balcony. She recognizes the boy companion of her childhood by his voice, and calls out to him. The relatives take her from the theater, but the boy follows to the porch of her home, where they are united.
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