Jack is a poor shepherd boy, employed by an avaricious old farmer. While the sheep are browsing Jack goes to sleep. His master finds him thus and beats him mercilessly. Poor Jack, when ... See full summary
The Shepherd's Flute (1909) Online
Jack is a poor shepherd boy, employed by an avaricious old farmer. While the sheep are browsing Jack goes to sleep. His master finds him thus and beats him mercilessly. Poor Jack, when alone, kneels down and invokes the gods to help him. A beautiful fairy comes out of a bush and orders Jack to cut a reed and make a flute of it. Then she explains to him that when anybody wants to hurt him, all he has to do is to blow the flute and his enemies will immediately begin to dance as long as he will blow. Jack returns to the farm, and when his master is about to beat him for his tardiness, he commences to play his flute. The stick falls from his master's hands and he begins to dance. As soon as the music stops, the farmer calls all his farm hands to beat Jack, but Jack plays his flute again and makes them all dance. Then the farmer sends for soldiers to arrest Jack, but when they arrive they also are made to dance. Then the shepherd escapes. This angers the soldiers, who turn upon the ...
Original French title is undetermined.
Released in the US as a split reel along with La mort de Cambyse (1909).