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His Father’s Bugle
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Richard Garrick
Cast: Frances Osman [Fred Wilson, at age 6 in 1884], Richard Garrick [Fred Wilson, at age 20 in 1898; and Fred’s father], Myrtle Stedman [Mrs. Wilson, Fred’s mother, at age 15 in 1863; at age 36 in 1884; and at age 50 in 1898], Louise Kelly
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by K.D. Langley. / Released 27 June 1912; in a split-reel with Building the Elephant Butte Dam at Albuquerque (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: War: Civil War.
Synopsis: [From Selig promotional materials] Fred, Mrs. Wilson’s little boy, is grieved to be called in when he wants to play soldier. His mother comforts him by showing him his father’s bugle and telling him its story. His father’s valiant part in the Civil War brought him the bugle from the hands of President Lincoln. Fred, fourteen years later, goes as a soldier in the Spanish War, taking his father’s bugle with him. In a desperate charge against a Spanish fort the color bearer is wounded, and Fred seizes the colors and carries them forward. He is about to plant the flag on the captured fort when he is shot and, in his dying moments, sends his father’s bugle back to his mother, who places it reverently above the portraits of her husband and her son.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 January 2025.
References: Lahue-Selig p. 83 : Website-IMDb.
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