D.W. Griffith Shorts - The Sunbeam 1912
The little one is playing with her doll while her mother lies sick. The poor woman dies, and the child, thinking her asleep, goes downstairs in search of a playmate. First she visits an austere old maid, and by her artlessness soon melts her coldness. Nest she goes across the hallway to a crabbed old bachelor and affects him the same way. The old maid misses one of her hair puffs and goes after the child, thinking she took it. While she is in the bachelor’s room talking to the child, several tenement-house youngsters steal a “scarlet-fever” notice and stick it on the bachelor’s door. This quarantines the three until the health officer appears and releases them. They then take the child to find its mamma and are horrified at finding her dead. As each wants to take the child they end the argument most logically. A wedding results.
