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W A MBA A CHILD OF THE JUNGLE Written by "Big" Otto Breilkreutz Produced by Colin Campbell At The Selig Wild Animal Farm Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A. Copyright 1913, by The Selig Polyscope Company All Rights Reserved. Special Release 5-26-13. A Remarkable Drama of Life in the Tropical Wilds IN TWO REELS r- Cast of Principal Characters ' "PORTUGUESE PETE" .Thomas Santschi WAMBA, Pete's Wife Bessie Eyton DR. RICE, The Trading Post Surgeon Frank Clark MRS. RICE, The Doctor's Wife Eugenie Besserer "BABY" LILLIAN, Their Daughter "Baby" Lillian Wade Traders. Natives, Servants, Etc., Etc. Time: The Present. Place: The Jungles of East Africa. FIRST REEL I HE story of Wamba is laid in that picturesque but dangerous strip of coast country known as the British East African Jungles. Wamba is the simple-hearted, half-breed wife of a brutal Portuguese who lives in a thatch-roofed hut on a clearing in the jungle. By acting as professional guide and hunter, Pete is enabled to earn a scant living. He is addicted to the rum jug and, as a consequence, abuses Wamba terribly. One day Wamba's child falls sick and she is unable to relieve the little ones suffering. Pete returns to the hut in a surly mopd and starts in to abuse his timerous wife. She pleads with him to allow her to take the sick child to Dr. Rice, the surgeon at the British Trading Post some miles distant. Pete turns a deaf ear to her pleadings and orders her to take the child out of his sight. Then he proceeds to empty his rum jug. Finally he falls into a drunken stupor. The child's condition has become worse rapidly. Finally the sympathetic mother love of Wamba overcomes the fear which she holds for her husband, and she decides to desert him. Taking only her child, she steals out of the hut, past the sleeping Pete, and makes her way through the dense and untravelled jungles to the doctor's home. Her path is beset with many dangers and more than once she is forced into hazardous encounters with wild beasts. She finally manages to reach the trading post where she is received in the kindliest possible manner by Dr. Rice and his wife. They are deeply incensed at the story of Pete's latest brutality and decide to protect the helpless woman from any chance of further attacks of this nature. Mrs. Rice needs a nurse to look after Lillian, her little girl, and as the white child seems to take to Wamba from the first, they arrange to retain her in the household. In spite of the doctor's best efforts to save the native child, Wamba's baby dies, and the heart broken mother pours out her affection on little Lillian. In the meantime Pete has awakened. Finding his wife and child gone, he proceeds to track them through the jungle. He is thrown off the trail upon several occasions but eventually arrives at the doctor's house where he attempts to drag Wamba away with him. The doctor intervenes, thus incurring Pete's everlasting enmity. SECOND REEL Pete lingers in the community nursing his grudge. Day by day he watches for his chance to work revenge. Arrives a day when Dr. and Mrs. Rice ride away to a neighboring settlement. This gives Pete the chance he has been waiting for. Slowly and cautiously he creeps up behind the unsuspecting Wamba and with one blow stuns her into insensibility. Then he snatches up the child and departs into the jungle. Little Lillian manages to escape from the Portuguese brute but in her efforts to evade her kidnapper she becomes lost in the dangerous jungles. Her P»*h is beset with prowling, man eating lions and her many escapes from torturous deaths are little short of miraculous. Pete finds the trail she has taken and once more starts in pursuit. "Baby" Lillian arrives at the bank of a precipice and sees *^e murky waters of the river, flowing many feet below. She is about fo turn back when she sees Pete following her. He is closely pursued by a huge lion. The tiny tot takes in the situation at a glance and, apparantly without hesitation plunges into the deep waters below. Luckily she is able to swim and she bravely strikes out for the opposite shore. Pete, meantime, has jumped into the water and hidden under an overhanging rock. By this time Wamba has recovered consciousness. She seizes the doctor's rifle and, with the quick instinct of the jungle raised woman, traces Pete and the baby through the forest. Lillian reaches the opposite shore but this proves little satisfaction to the tiny tot, for she is immediately followed by other lions. She runs to a clearing and takes refuge in a hollow log. Just as the beasts are about to drag the child out and devour her, Wamba rushes into the scene and shoots one lion. This frightens the others away, and soon afterward the child is being clutched to the bosom of the mulatto woman. By this time the Rices have returned. They discover the absence of the nurse and Lillian. A posse is immediately organized and starts to search the jungles. Wamba and the child are found and brought to safety. The posse then follow Pete's trail. This leads them to his shack but upon arrival they find that their services will not be necessary. Beasts of the jungle have followed him to the hut and his mutilated body is all that remains of the evident conflict. 0 SELIG "Baby" Lillian pleads with Wamba. "Wamba" resc "Baby" Lillian.
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Title | Press sheet for WAMBA, A CHILD OF THE JUNGLE, 1913 |
Film Title |
WAMBA, A CHILD OF THE JUNGLE (Motion picture : 1913) |
Format | flier (printed matter) |
Catalog Record | http://catalog.oscars.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=65288 |
Publisher | Chicago : Selig Polyscope Co. |
Date | 1913 |
Source | William Selig papers |
Repository | Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
Language | English |
Rights | Public domain material. |
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Title | Press sheet for WAMBA, A CHILD OF THE JUNGLE, 1913 |
Description | Page 1. |
Format | flier (printed matter) |
Catalog Record | http://catalog.oscars.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=65288 |
Date | 1913 |
Full text | W A MBA A CHILD OF THE JUNGLE Written by "Big" Otto Breilkreutz Produced by Colin Campbell At The Selig Wild Animal Farm Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A. Copyright 1913, by The Selig Polyscope Company All Rights Reserved. Special Release 5-26-13. A Remarkable Drama of Life in the Tropical Wilds IN TWO REELS r- Cast of Principal Characters ' "PORTUGUESE PETE" .Thomas Santschi WAMBA, Pete's Wife Bessie Eyton DR. RICE, The Trading Post Surgeon Frank Clark MRS. RICE, The Doctor's Wife Eugenie Besserer "BABY" LILLIAN, Their Daughter "Baby" Lillian Wade Traders. Natives, Servants, Etc., Etc. Time: The Present. Place: The Jungles of East Africa. FIRST REEL I HE story of Wamba is laid in that picturesque but dangerous strip of coast country known as the British East African Jungles. Wamba is the simple-hearted, half-breed wife of a brutal Portuguese who lives in a thatch-roofed hut on a clearing in the jungle. By acting as professional guide and hunter, Pete is enabled to earn a scant living. He is addicted to the rum jug and, as a consequence, abuses Wamba terribly. One day Wamba's child falls sick and she is unable to relieve the little ones suffering. Pete returns to the hut in a surly mopd and starts in to abuse his timerous wife. She pleads with him to allow her to take the sick child to Dr. Rice, the surgeon at the British Trading Post some miles distant. Pete turns a deaf ear to her pleadings and orders her to take the child out of his sight. Then he proceeds to empty his rum jug. Finally he falls into a drunken stupor. The child's condition has become worse rapidly. Finally the sympathetic mother love of Wamba overcomes the fear which she holds for her husband, and she decides to desert him. Taking only her child, she steals out of the hut, past the sleeping Pete, and makes her way through the dense and untravelled jungles to the doctor's home. Her path is beset with many dangers and more than once she is forced into hazardous encounters with wild beasts. She finally manages to reach the trading post where she is received in the kindliest possible manner by Dr. Rice and his wife. They are deeply incensed at the story of Pete's latest brutality and decide to protect the helpless woman from any chance of further attacks of this nature. Mrs. Rice needs a nurse to look after Lillian, her little girl, and as the white child seems to take to Wamba from the first, they arrange to retain her in the household. In spite of the doctor's best efforts to save the native child, Wamba's baby dies, and the heart broken mother pours out her affection on little Lillian. In the meantime Pete has awakened. Finding his wife and child gone, he proceeds to track them through the jungle. He is thrown off the trail upon several occasions but eventually arrives at the doctor's house where he attempts to drag Wamba away with him. The doctor intervenes, thus incurring Pete's everlasting enmity. SECOND REEL Pete lingers in the community nursing his grudge. Day by day he watches for his chance to work revenge. Arrives a day when Dr. and Mrs. Rice ride away to a neighboring settlement. This gives Pete the chance he has been waiting for. Slowly and cautiously he creeps up behind the unsuspecting Wamba and with one blow stuns her into insensibility. Then he snatches up the child and departs into the jungle. Little Lillian manages to escape from the Portuguese brute but in her efforts to evade her kidnapper she becomes lost in the dangerous jungles. Her P»*h is beset with prowling, man eating lions and her many escapes from torturous deaths are little short of miraculous. Pete finds the trail she has taken and once more starts in pursuit. "Baby" Lillian arrives at the bank of a precipice and sees *^e murky waters of the river, flowing many feet below. She is about fo turn back when she sees Pete following her. He is closely pursued by a huge lion. The tiny tot takes in the situation at a glance and, apparantly without hesitation plunges into the deep waters below. Luckily she is able to swim and she bravely strikes out for the opposite shore. Pete, meantime, has jumped into the water and hidden under an overhanging rock. By this time Wamba has recovered consciousness. She seizes the doctor's rifle and, with the quick instinct of the jungle raised woman, traces Pete and the baby through the forest. Lillian reaches the opposite shore but this proves little satisfaction to the tiny tot, for she is immediately followed by other lions. She runs to a clearing and takes refuge in a hollow log. Just as the beasts are about to drag the child out and devour her, Wamba rushes into the scene and shoots one lion. This frightens the others away, and soon afterward the child is being clutched to the bosom of the mulatto woman. By this time the Rices have returned. They discover the absence of the nurse and Lillian. A posse is immediately organized and starts to search the jungles. Wamba and the child are found and brought to safety. The posse then follow Pete's trail. This leads them to his shack but upon arrival they find that their services will not be necessary. Beasts of the jungle have followed him to the hut and his mutilated body is all that remains of the evident conflict. 0 SELIG "Baby" Lillian pleads with Wamba. "Wamba" resc "Baby" Lillian. |