The Country Doctor

Duration: 15

Year Published: 1909

Creator: Biograph Company

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: The opening scene presents a bucolic vista and as the picture begins, the camera pans slowly across a river to rest on the front of a house. The plot concerns a country doctor faced with the dilemma of whether to save his own child or the daughter of one of his patients. He lives up to his Hippocratic Oath and sacrifices his own child. The lyricism of the opening scene becomes funereal when it is repeated at the conclusion.

Complete Record: , The opening scene presents a bucolic vista and as the picture begins, the camera pans slowly across a river to rest on the front of a house. The plot concerns a country doctor faced with the dilemma of whether to save his own child or the daughter of one of his patients. He lives up to his Hippocratic Oath and sacrifices his own child. The lyricism of the opening scene becomes funereal when it is repeated at the conclusion. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.