The Gulf Between (1917 film)

The Gulf Between is a 1917 American comedy drama film that was the first motion picture made in Technicolor, the fourth featurelength color movie, and the first featurelength color movie produced in the United States. Today, the film is considered a lost film, with only very short fragments known to survive. These fragments are in the collections of the Margaret Herrick Library, George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Photography Deptment.

As described in a film magazine, little Marie Farrell Axzelle, through the carelessness of her nurse, is lost and believed drowned. She has wandered upon the ship of the smuggler Captain Flagg Brandt, who finds her and brings her up as his own. Her parents adopt a boy to help them forget their grief.The girl grows up with no memory of her former life. The adopted boy moves in the smart set in Mayport, and his parents try to make a match between him and a society girl. Marie Darmond is brought to her adopted fathers sister, as the old captain believes she should have the care of a loving woman. She meets young Richard Farrell Welch and the two come to love each other. The Farrells do everything they can to break up the couple, but with the help of the captain a marriage is accomplished. There is a stormy meeting between the bridal pair and the parents, during which the captain sees a portrait of Marie as a baby and, realizing the truth, tells the story of her life. The family is reunited and Mary and Richard spend their honeymoon on the captains ship. ........

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