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A Buried Treasure
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by [?] Bertram Bracken?
Cast: (unknown)
Méliès Star Films [American] production; distributed by [?] The Vitagraph Company of America through The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 1 May 1913; in a split-reel with The Home of the Terns, Australian Sea Birds (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in Australia in 1912.
Drama: South Seas.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? At a boarding house in Sydney, Australia, Franz, a young artist, holds himself aloof from his fellow boarders. In vain do they try to induce him to join their picnics and frolics. Secretly he is in love with the young and pretty Dolly, but dare not make advances because of his poverty and her wealth. Secretly she loves him. At length, peeved at the artist’s reserve, the boarders decide to play him a joke, a la Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold Bug.” Even little Dolly joins in the plot, lest by refusing she betray her secret. They ingeniously steal from the artist his large, soft, black hat, his inseparable companion, which they place carefully in a large box and bury among the rocks on Mosman Point. While the artist is busily at work on a picture of Sydney Harbor, a rag blowing at his feet attracts his attention. It is supposedly an old note written by a dying sailor to his pal, giving directions to a buried treasure at Mosman Point. The artist bites. Not a moment does he lose to seek the spot, and not a moment do the boarders lose to follow him. But on opening the box and discovering the joke, the look on his face is so pitiable that Dolly deserts the jokers, runs to Franz and confesses her love. That is revelation Number One. Number Two is in the form of a letter the artist finds in his hat, which he had neglected to open. It contains a check for 1,000 pounds in payment for a painting. The drinks are on the boarders.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Australia
Listing updated: 15 August 2023.
References: Shirley-Australian p. 27; Thompson-Star p. 234 : Website-IMDb.
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