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A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Cecil M. Hepworth
- Harassed father
- (as Cecil Hepworth)
Lindsay Gray
- Gypsy woman
- (uncredited)
Sebastian Smith
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAccording to the Guinness Book of World Records, this was the least expensive movie to produce. It cost $37.40.
- Alternate versionsAccording to "The Oxford History of World Cinema" this movie was so successful that Hepworth had to remake it twice to supply enough prints to meet demand. All with the same narrative, the original version is differentiable from the remakes via the scene where the nurse tells her boss that she lost the child. The original breaks the scene into two shots - the second shot being from a closer position. The two remakes contain only one shot, from the closer position, in that scene. One of the remakes is what is shown on the third volume of "The Movies Begin" series.
- ConnectionsEdited into Women Who Made the Movies (1992)
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Simple Story, Good Story-Telling
The story of "Rescued By Rover" is simple, but it's told quite well for its time. There is good action, good continuity from one scene to the next, and most of the shots are carried off well. It takes a somewhat predictable (and perhaps implausible) story and gives it energy, using occasional cross-cutting and mixing some indoor and outdoor scenes.
The story is the kind of melodrama that was very common in the earliest years of narrative films, but it also features some imaginative touches in the details. Most of the characters are rather plain, so the dog is the liveliest member of the cast. It was probably rather an achievement to get "Rover" to behave so well, and his actions come across as quite believable.
While the story is of a now-familiar kind, it was probably more novel at the time, and in any case this remains a worthwhile example of rather good early story-telling technique.
The story is the kind of melodrama that was very common in the earliest years of narrative films, but it also features some imaginative touches in the details. Most of the characters are rather plain, so the dog is the liveliest member of the cast. It was probably rather an achievement to get "Rover" to behave so well, and his actions come across as quite believable.
While the story is of a now-familiar kind, it was probably more novel at the time, and in any case this remains a worthwhile example of rather good early story-telling technique.
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- Apr 2, 2002
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- Budget
- £7 (estimated)
- Runtime7 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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