The School Teacher and the Waif Trailer (1912)

26 June 1912 Drama 17 mins

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.

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Cast

Edwin August as The School Teacher

Mary Pickford as Nora, the Waif

Charles Hill Mailes as Nora's Father

Bert Hendler as A Street Fakir

Claire McDowell as The Street Fakir's Sweetheart

William A. Carroll as The Street Fakir's Assistant

Robert Harron as Schoolboy

Kate Bruce

Josephine Crowell

Ella Hall as Schoolgirl (unconfirmed)

Grace Henderson as A Mother

Mae Marsh as Schoolgirl

Frank Opperman as At the Bee

Alfred Paget as At the Bee

Jack Pickford as Extra

Antrim Short as Student (uncredited)

Crew

D.W. Griffith Director

Billy Bitzer Director of Photography

International Releases Dates

United States 26 June 1912

Production Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

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