1 00:01:42,090 --> 00:01:46,910 Well, I have a full day at the newspaper office, so I've given you that list of 2 00:01:46,910 --> 00:01:47,910 goods we need for Mrs. 3 00:01:48,050 --> 00:01:51,210 Lawson's, and Jasper, please, just what's on the list. 4 00:01:52,430 --> 00:01:55,910 I'm trying to make sure that we don't spend more than $2 this month, so it's 5 00:01:55,910 --> 00:01:57,950 important that we just keep to our budget. 6 00:01:59,110 --> 00:02:02,130 All right, then. 7 00:02:05,410 --> 00:02:07,750 Jasper, you haven't heard a word I've said. 8 00:02:07,990 --> 00:02:10,910 Oh, yes, uh, budget, yes, very tight. 9 00:02:11,860 --> 00:02:12,860 Budget. 10 00:02:14,460 --> 00:02:19,420 Mr. Harold B. Dunn, the man behind Dunsburg, Pennsylvania, the city of the 11 00:02:19,420 --> 00:02:21,400 future, is in Charlottetown. 12 00:02:22,620 --> 00:02:26,380 Those that close to the entrepreneur say that Mr. Dunn is looking for the site 13 00:02:26,380 --> 00:02:27,460 of his next project. 14 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,940 Dunsville? Avonlea, it's become Dunsville. 15 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:32,180 Now, 16 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,860 now, Rachel Lynn, you don't know what the man's going to say. 17 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,000 You don't have to be a mind reader, Archie Gillis. I couldn't agree with you 18 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 more, Rachel. 19 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:40,519 There's a first. 20 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,860 No Yankees going to come up here and buy up all our property. Well, the next 21 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:46,760 thing you know, we'll have an invasion of Americans, that's what. Can't you at 22 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,400 least give the man a fair hearing first before manning the ramparts? 23 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:53,340 Are you telling me you're prepared to entertain all this? 24 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:58,480 Come 25 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:07,300 right 26 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:08,300 in, Jasper. 27 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:12,320 Raleigh's Roll Oats is presenting this display. It's a new sales venture, a 28 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,100 traveling motion picture show. 29 00:03:40,650 --> 00:03:41,650 are so exciting. 30 00:03:55,110 --> 00:03:56,110 Sorry. 31 00:04:08,430 --> 00:04:09,990 Edison, protect... 32 00:04:14,380 --> 00:04:19,240 How many frames? How many frames? 33 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,640 How many frames? 34 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:25,920 Look, I'm no Edison. I'm just here to tell stereo. 35 00:04:47,810 --> 00:04:51,450 Recreating real life like it actually happens. 36 00:04:51,810 --> 00:04:52,810 Oh, 37 00:04:52,950 --> 00:04:54,570 moving pictures, such nonsense. 38 00:04:56,950 --> 00:05:02,410 If you ask me, the world is changing too fast for its own good. One day, moving 39 00:05:02,410 --> 00:05:05,070 pictures, and Lord knows what next. 40 00:05:05,810 --> 00:05:07,130 People on the moon, I suppose. 41 00:05:07,550 --> 00:05:09,010 No doubt about that. 42 00:05:09,350 --> 00:05:10,350 Oh, what? 43 00:05:10,450 --> 00:05:11,850 Jasper, on the moon, really? 44 00:05:12,330 --> 00:05:15,350 Well, why not? I mean, only a few hundred years ago, people thought the 45 00:05:15,350 --> 00:05:16,199 was flat. 46 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,320 Yes, well, I have some truly astonishing news to announce. 47 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:21,560 All right. I feel it. 48 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:26,120 Angus McCorkadale has sold the cannery. 49 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,620 No. I don't believe it. 50 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:29,920 Oh, it's true. 51 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,520 And I heard directly from the horse's mouth. 52 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,160 Rachel Lynn. 53 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:41,900 That the buyer is that Yankee millionaire, H .B. Dunn. Dunn, that's 54 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:44,820 that just built Dunsburg, the city of the future. 55 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:48,040 Oh, it was all over the Charlottetown paper this morning. 56 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:53,580 Scientific claptrap, that's what it is. He buys up land on which he builds 57 00:05:53,580 --> 00:05:57,760 modern homes and stores, and then his company leases them back to the town's 58 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:58,760 population. 59 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:01,600 And that's supposed to be sound, is it? 60 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,460 Well, the king's farm could be next door. 61 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,180 Why not the entire community, for that matter? 62 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:10,080 Can't stop progress, Hedy. 63 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:11,640 Progress, you call it? 64 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:15,060 You and your progress, Jasper. 65 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:21,100 Why, your scientific tinkering don't bring your two dimes so rough together. 66 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:22,500 Eddie King. 67 00:06:22,740 --> 00:06:28,260 Well, if you weren't so enamored with all this moving picture nonsense, you'd 68 00:06:28,260 --> 00:06:30,840 notice you have a family to support. 69 00:06:31,660 --> 00:06:35,140 Our family is supported just fine, Eddie. 70 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,280 I'll get some milk, Angelivia. 71 00:06:41,789 --> 00:06:47,070 Oh, yes, well, I suppose financial difficulties are none of my affair. 72 00:06:47,990 --> 00:06:51,990 But wise, Jasper. You would have taken my advice in the first place and gone 73 00:06:51,990 --> 00:06:52,990 found a proper job. 74 00:06:54,090 --> 00:06:55,090 That's one of the things. 75 00:06:56,150 --> 00:06:58,710 Oh, yes, that was a very sound idea. 76 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,720 I think that I've been spending too much time in my workshop. 77 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:18,560 Jasper. 78 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,660 Well, let's not discuss it now, anyway. 79 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:22,880 I know, I know. 80 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:26,660 I'm going to put aside my experimental workshop for a while. 81 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,720 Well, I won't let you even think of working in a bank. 82 00:07:30,340 --> 00:07:33,240 No, no, no. I'm going to do some serious writing. 83 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:39,040 I shall see about getting articles published, because I haven't been doing 84 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,860 fair share of looking after the expenses. 85 00:07:42,790 --> 00:07:46,610 Jasper, that's not even true, you see. Now you're just letting Hetty's opinions 86 00:07:46,610 --> 00:07:47,910 rankle you. No, no. 87 00:07:49,250 --> 00:07:50,250 Mine's made up. 88 00:07:50,810 --> 00:07:55,910 Less time on tinkering, more time on financial responsibilities. 89 00:07:58,590 --> 00:07:59,030 Uncle 90 00:07:59,030 --> 00:08:06,010 Jasper? 91 00:08:06,350 --> 00:08:07,350 Hmm? 92 00:08:07,650 --> 00:08:11,130 Do you really think that everyone in Avonlea will let Mr. Dunbar up the town? 93 00:08:11,790 --> 00:08:17,090 Oh. Well, I don't exactly know. These company towns, they're becoming very 94 00:08:17,090 --> 00:08:18,810 popular down in the States. 95 00:08:20,050 --> 00:08:22,530 I'm just worried that this town will change somehow. 96 00:08:23,510 --> 00:08:25,890 Progress can't be stopped. 97 00:08:26,410 --> 00:08:28,190 The past is never the same. 98 00:08:28,710 --> 00:08:29,710 The future. 99 00:08:29,890 --> 00:08:30,890 What's all this? 100 00:08:31,090 --> 00:08:35,270 Oh, sounds foolish, but this is a letter that I'm writing to the... 101 00:08:36,809 --> 00:08:40,990 Thomas Edison Company in New Jersey to tell of my theories. You know, the one 102 00:08:40,990 --> 00:08:42,309 about the motion picture? 103 00:08:42,610 --> 00:08:47,750 And Mr. Edison is a scientist and a filmmaker, so he'll understand. 104 00:08:48,330 --> 00:08:49,330 Theory? 105 00:08:50,550 --> 00:08:52,650 I've been doing quite a bit of thinking lately. 106 00:08:53,050 --> 00:09:00,030 You see, it depends on the number of frames and the speed at which they're 107 00:09:00,030 --> 00:09:06,170 shown to convey the action. And I thought perhaps with 22 or 24 frames... 108 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:12,200 Instead of the usual 18, which the Edison projectors 109 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:18,960 project at now, that it would complete the action. 110 00:09:19,060 --> 00:09:26,020 See, the additional four or six frames would smooth out the action. 111 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:27,280 That's wonderful. 112 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:29,660 Why don't you build your own new improved camera? 113 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,380 I can't. 114 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:34,680 I was going to try to, but... 115 00:09:35,650 --> 00:09:36,710 Rather short of funds. 116 00:09:38,710 --> 00:09:41,650 Truth be told, it's not been a very good year, financially. 117 00:09:43,690 --> 00:09:49,070 What with Montgomery and all, and... Me 118 00:09:49,070 --> 00:09:55,910 need to buckle down, like your aunt Eddie said. I need to publish 119 00:09:55,910 --> 00:09:58,070 more articles. 120 00:09:59,210 --> 00:10:00,210 Secretly. 121 00:10:01,770 --> 00:10:06,890 I thought, what if the Edison people were to hire me to do the experiments? 122 00:10:07,510 --> 00:10:09,430 Uncle Jasper, you have to do that. 123 00:10:09,950 --> 00:10:11,170 You absolutely must. 124 00:10:11,870 --> 00:10:14,330 It's a brilliant idea, and I'm sure they'd hire you. 125 00:10:15,690 --> 00:10:21,290 Besides, I mean, publishing articles is all well and good, but you have to go on 126 00:10:21,290 --> 00:10:23,730 inventing. I don't want you to change. 127 00:10:24,990 --> 00:10:27,190 Well, thank you, Sarah. That makes two. 128 00:10:28,130 --> 00:10:30,030 You and Olivia. 129 00:10:32,110 --> 00:10:33,630 I'll mail that for you if you like. 130 00:10:33,830 --> 00:10:36,550 Oh, thank you. You're very kind. 131 00:10:37,250 --> 00:10:38,250 No, 132 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:39,430 thank you. 133 00:10:41,750 --> 00:10:47,870 I am anxious to get going on the article for the 134 00:10:47,870 --> 00:10:54,750 Royal Society of Naturalists who have promised to pay me a small sum 135 00:10:54,750 --> 00:10:56,110 for my troubles. 136 00:10:56,490 --> 00:10:57,590 Bye, Uncle Jasper. 137 00:10:58,450 --> 00:10:59,630 Um, yeah. 138 00:11:00,050 --> 00:11:01,050 Bye. 139 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,720 Aunt Hattie, I need to speak with you frankly right away. 140 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,300 Oh, be frank by all means, but kindly wipe off your boots. I've just polished 141 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:22,099 the floor. 142 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:23,740 I've come to a very important decision. 143 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,000 I think that with all the weight of my affairs on your shoulders, I should have 144 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 more of a say in the way my trust is being administered. 145 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,380 I'd like to make a very small investment in something I believe strongly about. 146 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:37,300 Well, that's good. 147 00:11:40,140 --> 00:11:41,520 I've selected an investment. 148 00:11:43,630 --> 00:11:48,050 Would you like some advice in that area? After all, it is a very tricky 149 00:11:48,050 --> 00:11:50,650 business. You want to choose wisely. 150 00:11:51,790 --> 00:11:53,330 I'd like to invest in the arts. 151 00:11:54,830 --> 00:12:00,770 You don't mean silly things like plays and actors, do you? That's a sure way to 152 00:12:00,770 --> 00:12:01,790 fritter away your money. 153 00:12:02,110 --> 00:12:05,990 But you used to always lecture to us in the classroom about how Queen Elizabeth 154 00:12:05,990 --> 00:12:08,030 supported Shakespeare in the 16th century. 155 00:12:08,690 --> 00:12:11,590 You yourself have made your fortune by being a writer. 156 00:12:12,340 --> 00:12:13,340 That's true. 157 00:12:14,020 --> 00:12:15,620 Aunt Hetty, this is my destiny. 158 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,080 To help the people that I want to because I can afford to. 159 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,320 Tell you what. 160 00:12:23,580 --> 00:12:24,780 Let's draft a letter. 161 00:12:25,180 --> 00:12:26,180 You and I. 162 00:12:26,660 --> 00:12:27,660 Come on. 163 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,180 To your solicitors in Montreal. 164 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,020 They're sure to come up with a sound suggestion. 165 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:38,540 Aunt Hetty, my father left this for me to deal with ultimately. 166 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,520 And I honestly feel that I am old enough to... 167 00:12:42,010 --> 00:12:46,010 To know how to invest a small amount of my money, wisely and on my own. 168 00:12:46,290 --> 00:12:49,810 Yes, but, child, people might take advantage of your kind nature. 169 00:12:50,650 --> 00:12:54,210 That's why all requests for money from the trustees must come through me 170 00:12:54,210 --> 00:12:56,710 directly. But... Can't be too careful. 171 00:12:57,510 --> 00:13:02,270 The only truly safe place for your fortune is in property or in the bank. 172 00:13:02,510 --> 00:13:06,090 And take it from me, the Queen of England owns them both. 173 00:13:08,510 --> 00:13:09,510 Now... 174 00:13:10,290 --> 00:13:11,790 To your solicitors. 175 00:13:15,270 --> 00:13:16,270 Quiet! 176 00:13:17,590 --> 00:13:18,650 Quiet, please! 177 00:13:19,050 --> 00:13:20,450 May I have your attention? 178 00:13:23,250 --> 00:13:28,510 As you know, this is an open meeting to discuss the proposed intentions of the 179 00:13:28,510 --> 00:13:30,430 American, Mr. 180 00:13:30,670 --> 00:13:31,850 Harold Dunn. 181 00:13:32,550 --> 00:13:35,350 Mr. Dunn, you may take the stand. 182 00:13:40,460 --> 00:13:44,520 I understand you're all anxious to know what my plans are for the cannery. 183 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:50,080 My proposition to your lovely hamlet of Avonlea is to transform it into 184 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,080 Dunsville. 185 00:13:51,420 --> 00:13:54,140 The city of the future. 186 00:13:56,860 --> 00:14:02,040 The new and expanded cannery will operate with the working precepts 187 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,260 late by Mr. Henry Ford of the state of Michigan. 188 00:14:04,620 --> 00:14:09,240 As with Dunsburg, Pennsylvania, we have already shown that such a city plan... 189 00:14:09,530 --> 00:14:13,830 built to support an expanded cannery and other proposed automated factory plants 190 00:14:13,830 --> 00:14:18,590 in the area will work and is overwhelmingly beneficial to the local 191 00:14:19,170 --> 00:14:20,170 How beneficial? 192 00:14:20,930 --> 00:14:24,330 Beneficial for whom exactly, Mr. Dunn? I want to know what's going to happen to 193 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:25,330 me and mine, sir. 194 00:14:25,950 --> 00:14:29,110 My family depends on the cannery for three square meals on the table. 195 00:14:29,750 --> 00:14:34,110 I am a family man myself, sir, and there is nothing more important to me than 196 00:14:34,110 --> 00:14:37,850 the welfare of my loved ones, giving them a decent place to live, providing 197 00:14:37,850 --> 00:14:41,020 them. That means clothes on their backs and food on their table. 198 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:46,980 That is a new harbor for larger vessels and a railroad to transport goods and 199 00:14:46,980 --> 00:14:49,340 people. Dunsville means prosperity. 200 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,820 That's what my city of the future is all about. 201 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:59,620 It means affordable homes with running water and electricity, telephones and 202 00:14:59,620 --> 00:15:04,700 indoor plumbing, bringing the farming communities, every community, into the 203 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:05,700 20th century. 204 00:15:06,570 --> 00:15:07,870 Bert, did you hear that? 205 00:15:08,250 --> 00:15:09,490 Indoor necessities. 206 00:15:09,690 --> 00:15:11,170 I hear a lot of talk, Clara. 207 00:15:11,510 --> 00:15:14,670 Can you imagine, Bert? Let's get indoor plumbing for our new home. 208 00:15:15,490 --> 00:15:16,490 What new home? 209 00:15:16,510 --> 00:15:20,430 The one we're buying when we sell the old one to Mr. Dunn. I'm not selling, 210 00:15:20,430 --> 00:15:21,430 I'm not buying anything. 211 00:15:21,750 --> 00:15:23,770 An outhouse is good enough for a pot. 212 00:15:25,330 --> 00:15:27,050 Let's try and keep our heads, everyone. 213 00:15:27,750 --> 00:15:30,690 After all, nobody gives away something for nothing. 214 00:15:31,010 --> 00:15:32,010 Good point. 215 00:15:33,730 --> 00:15:35,570 What's the catch, Mr. Dunn? 216 00:15:35,930 --> 00:15:36,930 No catch, sir. 217 00:15:37,310 --> 00:15:40,090 Certain properties will be needed to realize our goal. 218 00:15:40,450 --> 00:15:42,650 May I ask just why you picked Avonlea? 219 00:15:43,010 --> 00:15:45,570 Honestly, madam, the Nova Scotia properties were too expensive. 220 00:15:46,210 --> 00:15:51,350 So you think our land can be acquired more cheaply, is that it? 221 00:15:52,650 --> 00:15:55,170 This man will control the very life of the town. 222 00:15:56,130 --> 00:15:59,390 Well, you'll be renting your property back from him, shopping in his stores, 223 00:15:59,470 --> 00:16:00,590 buying everything from him. 224 00:16:00,910 --> 00:16:03,970 He'll run you out of business, Elvira. You too, Archie Gillis. 225 00:16:04,490 --> 00:16:07,600 Well, what... What properties are we talking about, Mr. Dunn? 226 00:16:07,820 --> 00:16:12,640 Take a good look at the plans here, depicting the high standard of daily 227 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,080 that can be yours in the city of the future. 228 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:21,920 Now, I know that you will all need time to think about my proposal, and I am 229 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:27,920 only too happy to leave offers with you and return in a month's time for your 230 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,960 decision. The brochure will give you all the details of the plans. 231 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,260 Please, come closer. 232 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:40,719 Good Lord. 233 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,920 What is that contraption plunk in the middle of my yard? That's company 234 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,640 headquarters. Well, according to this plan, that runs right through the middle 235 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,000 of my home, Mr. Dunn. Well, we are not without alternatives, but you will be 236 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,340 adequately compensated and a new modern home can be yours at the right price. 237 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,620 What's those buildings there? The main storage facilities. 238 00:17:02,820 --> 00:17:03,820 That's Green Gables. 239 00:17:04,020 --> 00:17:05,700 You're not going along with that, Mr. Harrison. 240 00:17:06,180 --> 00:17:08,140 Merle, a cutthroat, would roll over in her grave. 241 00:17:08,670 --> 00:17:10,130 I'd say yes if I were you, Harrison. 242 00:17:11,050 --> 00:17:12,250 It'd be a sweet deal for you. 243 00:17:12,510 --> 00:17:16,530 Oh, there are people who cannot be bought, Archie Gillis. And I ain't one 244 00:17:16,530 --> 00:17:19,170 them. Well, I can tell you right now that I'm ready to sell, Mr. Dunn. 245 00:17:20,130 --> 00:17:21,130 Need the money. 246 00:17:21,450 --> 00:17:22,348 How much? 247 00:17:22,349 --> 00:17:23,349 Cash in the barrel. 248 00:17:28,970 --> 00:17:32,170 You paint a rosy picture of this Dunsville. 249 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,680 But I'm quite sure that the reality won't bear much resemblance to the 250 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:44,060 Where are the people in it? Where are the open spaces, the orchards and 251 00:17:44,060 --> 00:17:50,180 wildflowers, the rows of farmer's fields? Miss King, my ideas may not be 252 00:17:50,180 --> 00:17:54,020 everyone's cup of tea, but believe me, they are for the good of the majority. 253 00:17:56,100 --> 00:17:58,040 Oh, they're not for my good. 254 00:17:59,180 --> 00:18:05,100 Well, all I've got so far is just a lot of hot air from Angus McCorky about the 255 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:08,000 sale of the cannery. How much does that cost you? 256 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:09,920 Sir, 257 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,860 I'm a woman of independent means, and I'm prepared to compensate you for your 258 00:18:15,860 --> 00:18:17,780 trouble so far. That is, buy it back. 259 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:21,460 Well, if you won't accept my offer, then I'll... 260 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:27,140 Then I'll get an injunction from the crown and I'll investigate you and this 261 00:18:27,140 --> 00:18:28,720 -called city of the future. 262 00:18:29,540 --> 00:18:31,860 Oh, I have the funds, Mr. Dunn, believe you me. 263 00:18:33,460 --> 00:18:34,700 I have the funds. 264 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:41,820 The king seems mighty eager to spend some money. 265 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,900 Plenty of royalties, my wager. 266 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:50,380 She'll need more than that to equal what Mr. Dunn is paying out. 267 00:18:51,210 --> 00:18:55,090 I wonder how many people would sell to Hattie King if she offered more money. 268 00:18:55,630 --> 00:18:57,730 Two bidders make for a better price. 269 00:18:58,190 --> 00:19:01,050 You can't mean it, you layly bugle. Oh! 270 00:19:05,490 --> 00:19:09,790 Here's where Rose Cottage butts up against the Campbell property, which we 271 00:19:09,790 --> 00:19:14,530 know, and here is the King firm, and right here. 272 00:19:15,740 --> 00:19:21,000 It's the piece of land that Mr. Dunn is after for his railroad throughway. 273 00:19:21,260 --> 00:19:23,260 Is that all? Just that little square? 274 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,340 Janet, if you had anything substantial between your ears, you'd understand that 275 00:19:29,340 --> 00:19:32,440 that little square, as you call it, is crucial. 276 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:36,740 Without that little square, Mr. 277 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:42,940 Dunn would have to change the entire direction of the railroad, which would 278 00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:43,940 him a fortune. 279 00:19:44,250 --> 00:19:48,530 Oh, well, then why don't we charge him a fortune and sell him our little square? 280 00:19:49,390 --> 00:19:51,830 Janet, we don't want to sell our little square. 281 00:19:52,310 --> 00:19:55,650 Why ever not? It's just a little tiny piece of land. 282 00:19:56,290 --> 00:20:00,510 I think that's a good point. It's just a small bit of family property. 283 00:20:01,090 --> 00:20:02,390 What do you think, Jasper? 284 00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:09,270 Well, I think progress always entails a certain amount of controversy. 285 00:20:11,310 --> 00:20:16,230 Actually, I don't think that it's my place to... No, thank the Lord it's not 286 00:20:16,230 --> 00:20:20,190 your place, and I'll thank you, Jasper Dale, to keep your ideas to yourself. 287 00:20:20,950 --> 00:20:24,330 Harry, I asked Jasper for his opinion. 288 00:20:24,590 --> 00:20:26,250 I don't care about Jasper's opinion. 289 00:20:26,570 --> 00:20:27,570 Fine, then. 290 00:20:27,650 --> 00:20:30,990 Why, here's my opinion. I think we should sell. 291 00:20:31,450 --> 00:20:32,450 Olivia! 292 00:20:33,220 --> 00:20:35,320 Take and leave of your senses? 293 00:20:35,660 --> 00:20:39,440 What harm could it possibly do? At least we'd be making some kind of a 294 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,400 contribution to a more progressive community. 295 00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:44,160 Don't you see what you're agreeing to? 296 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,700 A railroad? 297 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,740 Running across our land? 298 00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:50,880 The noise, the smell, the commotion? 299 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,520 I would only run once a day. 300 00:20:53,940 --> 00:20:57,620 Janet, I must insist that you leave this to Hetty and Olivia and me. 301 00:20:58,320 --> 00:20:59,980 Oh, you insist. 302 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:01,440 You insist. 303 00:21:02,540 --> 00:21:04,820 I'm your wife, and my opinion means nothing. 304 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:10,020 I think you've both got blinkers on. You can't stand in the way of progress. 305 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,660 Olivia, I am deeply shocked at this betrayal. 306 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:18,740 And I can't help but feel that if your husband had done the right thing when 307 00:21:18,740 --> 00:21:24,020 Montgomery was born, you'd not be so desperate now to get out of our 308 00:21:24,020 --> 00:21:25,100 straits herein. 309 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,640 You don't know anything about our financial straits, and I'll thank you to 310 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:31,680 your opinions to yourself. 311 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,180 We're leaving. 312 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,720 Yes, I'm leaving too. 313 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:37,940 Janet, Olivia, simmer down. 314 00:21:38,580 --> 00:21:40,520 No, you simmer down. 315 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,900 Why can't you two control your emotions? 316 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,940 Just stack the tea things there, will you, dear? 317 00:22:11,659 --> 00:22:12,659 Very silent. 318 00:22:13,980 --> 00:22:15,820 Suppose you have an opinion too, do you? 319 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:17,840 My opinion? 320 00:22:18,740 --> 00:22:22,300 I think you're making life miserable for both Aunt Olivia and Uncle Jasper. 321 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,620 The way you attack him is absolutely insulting. He's her own husband. 322 00:22:26,380 --> 00:22:30,740 Sarah, I... And besides... If you're constantly asking people to think for 323 00:22:30,740 --> 00:22:33,160 themselves, don't be surprised if they don't always agree with you. 324 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,280 Felix, the White Sands Hotel is the only telephone line I can actively use to 325 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,540 make a private telephone call. 326 00:22:48,260 --> 00:22:51,200 I couldn't use the one at the general store. Everyone would hear. 327 00:22:51,820 --> 00:22:53,100 Felix, you have to help me. 328 00:22:53,380 --> 00:22:55,300 Why does it have to be so private? 329 00:22:56,910 --> 00:22:59,210 I thought Sarah or I won't help you. 330 00:22:59,810 --> 00:23:05,990 Look, I went ahead and I ordered a motion picture camera for Uncle Jasper 331 00:23:05,990 --> 00:23:07,510 the Thomas Edison Company in New Jersey. 332 00:23:07,930 --> 00:23:10,850 Really? How'd you ever get Aunt Hedy to pay for it? 333 00:23:11,250 --> 00:23:15,130 Well, I'm going to ask for the money from my trustees whether Aunt Hedy 334 00:23:15,130 --> 00:23:16,130 with it or not. 335 00:23:16,450 --> 00:23:17,930 I know I'm going to get in trouble. 336 00:23:19,650 --> 00:23:22,390 In here, there's a private telephone for the guests. 337 00:23:22,850 --> 00:23:24,030 You'll have to get the operator. 338 00:23:24,270 --> 00:23:26,150 Have you got the number? Of course. 339 00:23:26,620 --> 00:23:27,620 Stand watch. 340 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,660 Yes, I'd like the Montreal operator, please. 341 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,440 Yes, this is Miss Hette King. 342 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:45,960 K -I -N -G. 343 00:23:46,540 --> 00:23:52,600 I'm telephoning my solicitor, Mr. Edward Bartholomew of Bartholomew of Finlay 344 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:53,760 and Howe. 345 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:55,640 Here we are, your lady. 346 00:23:57,199 --> 00:23:59,100 It's Hetty King's latest effort. 347 00:23:59,540 --> 00:24:01,600 Where there's a will, there's a way. 348 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,960 It's all about a miserable old woman and her rich niece. 349 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,020 Wonder where she got that idea. 350 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,440 Let me see it. I just loved her last novel. We sold out all our copies. 351 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,680 The Curse of the Spinster's Fortune. 352 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:14,980 Really, Elvira. 353 00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:18,280 I'll get that telephone. 354 00:24:18,740 --> 00:24:22,160 Oh, no, you, Lily, it's not for us. One ring means someone's using it over at 355 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:23,160 the White Sands. 356 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaking of fortunes... 357 00:24:25,870 --> 00:24:28,970 What did you make of Hetty King's trying to vie with Mr. Dunn's offer? 358 00:24:29,350 --> 00:24:31,670 Really? Hetty? What did she say? 359 00:24:31,890 --> 00:24:34,130 She said she'd buy him out. That's what. 360 00:24:34,530 --> 00:24:36,510 Oh, Jasmine, it's all a lot of bluster. 361 00:24:37,010 --> 00:24:40,230 Hetty King, even with all her royalties, doesn't own that kind of money. 362 00:24:40,490 --> 00:24:42,330 No, but her niece does. 363 00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:44,190 Sarah Stanley. 364 00:24:44,850 --> 00:24:47,590 She's got bushel baskets full of it. 365 00:24:49,130 --> 00:24:53,210 Oh, um, would you let me borrow that book after you're done with it, Rachel? 366 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,480 Think of it. 367 00:24:55,740 --> 00:25:02,100 Let me have another look at a pivotal section here right near the end 368 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:07,080 where the old woman steals the fortune of the young girl. 369 00:25:07,420 --> 00:25:10,600 Oh, no, Eulalie. Hang up. It's the White Sands again. 370 00:25:16,860 --> 00:25:18,620 You speak to Mr. 371 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:23,330 Bartholomew. I have an urgent business matter that requires... Immediate 372 00:25:23,330 --> 00:25:24,330 attention. 373 00:25:25,050 --> 00:25:27,470 The funds will be wired right away. 374 00:25:28,090 --> 00:25:29,090 Good. 375 00:25:29,650 --> 00:25:30,770 Right you are. 376 00:25:31,310 --> 00:25:32,310 Good Lord. 377 00:25:33,270 --> 00:25:34,710 Hang up, you lady. 378 00:25:34,910 --> 00:25:37,550 It's a sin to listen in on someone else's call. 379 00:25:39,730 --> 00:25:42,170 You won't believe what I just heard. 380 00:25:42,530 --> 00:25:44,730 You're pale as a ghost, you lady bugle. 381 00:25:45,070 --> 00:25:49,250 It was Hattie King ordering up funds from Sarah's trust. 382 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,640 An urgent business matter, she said. 383 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:55,240 You know how life imitates art? 384 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,140 She just did it. 385 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,320 Are you sure it was Hetty? 386 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,940 I ought to know that voice, Elvira Lawson. 387 00:26:02,180 --> 00:26:06,840 I'm telling you, Hetty King is going to use those funds to buy up this town and 388 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,600 sell it back to Mr. Dunn. No two ways about it. 389 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,860 Who would have thought it possible? 390 00:26:12,460 --> 00:26:15,140 Judas, in our very midst. 391 00:26:19,530 --> 00:26:25,450 The funds will be wired to the Thomas Edison Company, New Jersey, on behalf of 392 00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:28,110 an order in the name of Jasper Dale. 393 00:26:29,290 --> 00:26:31,330 Thank you kindly, my good man. 394 00:26:41,490 --> 00:26:43,050 Oh, hello, Sarah. 395 00:26:43,410 --> 00:26:46,470 The postmaster asked me to deliver this to you. 396 00:26:47,290 --> 00:26:48,590 Seems to be from the Edison Company. 397 00:26:49,350 --> 00:26:50,910 Very, very kind of you. 398 00:26:56,670 --> 00:26:57,670 Kind of you. 399 00:27:00,450 --> 00:27:02,170 Dale received your letter. 400 00:27:02,670 --> 00:27:05,670 You proposed theories to our attention. 401 00:27:07,830 --> 00:27:08,830 Free? 402 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,580 Motion picture camera, Jasper, that's impossible. 403 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:16,780 Absolutely. No, the letter says they received my correspondence about the 404 00:27:16,780 --> 00:27:21,100 and, quote, they say, it is your scientific obligation to conduct these 405 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:25,040 experiments to improve any frailties in our original camera invention. 406 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:27,060 Unquote. 407 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:28,940 Jasper, that's wonderful. 408 00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:34,660 Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky day. Imagine an Edison omnibus portable 409 00:27:34,660 --> 00:27:35,740 picture camera. 410 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,740 It'll take a bit of time, won't it? 411 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,440 I'll have to test it and change the camera. Oh, Jasper, now don't you worry 412 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:45,660 about our own problems. 413 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,420 This is the opportunity of a lifetime. 414 00:27:48,780 --> 00:27:50,040 You've got to do it. 415 00:27:50,260 --> 00:27:52,440 I'll manage financially. We'll be fine. 416 00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:54,380 Yes. 417 00:27:54,660 --> 00:27:55,820 Too good to be true. 418 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,100 All right. 419 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,280 Sarah, could you get Montgomery's nappies for me? 420 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,660 What's the matter? Have you had enough of that? 421 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,440 An Edison omnibus motion picture camera. An Edison omnibus motion picture 422 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:13,440 camera. 423 00:28:43,150 --> 00:28:45,690 I used to love that lullaby when you were a baby, Sarah. 424 00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:49,210 Your mother used to sing it to you all the time. 425 00:28:49,650 --> 00:28:50,650 She did. 426 00:28:51,750 --> 00:28:54,570 I can't remember. 427 00:28:55,990 --> 00:29:02,930 I know I was only three when she died, but sometimes I lay awake at night and I 428 00:29:02,930 --> 00:29:06,390 try to remember the sound of her voice. 429 00:29:08,170 --> 00:29:11,290 If only I could just hear it in my head. 430 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,660 It frightens me sometimes. 431 00:29:20,340 --> 00:29:26,120 There are pictures, but... I can't really remember what she looked like. 432 00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:29,740 Well, there she looked just like you. 433 00:29:31,780 --> 00:29:34,320 You won't think I'm silly if I tell you something? 434 00:29:35,220 --> 00:29:36,280 No, tell me. 435 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,820 Sometimes... I just wish I could see her just one more time. 436 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,250 Just... Just hear the sound of her voice. 437 00:29:49,730 --> 00:29:50,890 And see her face. 438 00:29:53,510 --> 00:29:55,950 There's so much I always wanted to know about her. 439 00:30:07,370 --> 00:30:09,590 He's working for the Thomas Edison Company. 440 00:30:11,030 --> 00:30:13,150 He's perfecting an invention for them. 441 00:30:16,010 --> 00:30:17,810 doing motion photography experiments. 442 00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:19,850 Out of my way! 443 00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:31,730 Jasper, get out of the road. 444 00:30:32,130 --> 00:30:34,090 Just need a minute, just need a minute. 445 00:30:34,390 --> 00:30:37,250 Well, I haven't got all day to wait for you and your infernal invention. 446 00:30:37,530 --> 00:30:39,030 I'm working for the Thomas Edison Company. 447 00:30:39,910 --> 00:30:40,910 Jasper working? 448 00:30:41,090 --> 00:30:43,110 Not really my invention. 449 00:30:44,210 --> 00:30:48,490 They've asked me to experiment on one of theirs. Well, that's all well and good, 450 00:30:48,550 --> 00:30:52,810 but I've got a business to run. Now I want you and it out of the way. If we 451 00:30:52,810 --> 00:30:54,730 could hear if he calls me, please. 452 00:31:02,050 --> 00:31:03,330 The road is yours. 453 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,420 Take them, Mr. Dunne, and you can shove them down your parchment water faucet. 454 00:31:33,380 --> 00:31:35,060 What do you want? There it is. 455 00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:45,520 Get that contraction out of my face, Jasper Dale. 456 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,640 Move the arm. Move the arm more. 457 00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:52,640 I'll move the arm for you in a minute, I'll tell you. 458 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:53,880 Good. 459 00:32:09,870 --> 00:32:11,050 What do you think you're doing? 460 00:32:11,290 --> 00:32:13,010 Motion picture, Eddie. 461 00:32:14,210 --> 00:32:15,450 Motion picture? 462 00:32:15,990 --> 00:32:21,370 Experiments in motion, hence the laundry for the Edison Company, New Jersey. 463 00:32:22,930 --> 00:32:29,650 You mean to say that somebody has hired you to make a moving 464 00:32:29,650 --> 00:32:32,290 picture? Not hired, exactly. 465 00:32:33,330 --> 00:32:34,830 Conducting research. 466 00:32:35,270 --> 00:32:39,210 I see. So you're making a moving picture of my... 467 00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:41,370 Laundry line and for nothing. 468 00:32:41,930 --> 00:32:45,770 It's the motion that I'm interested in. 469 00:32:46,150 --> 00:32:47,550 Oh, Jasper, dear. 470 00:32:47,830 --> 00:32:49,330 Are you duck -raving mad? 471 00:32:50,150 --> 00:32:53,690 Just keep doing what you're doing. I won't be in the way. 472 00:32:54,150 --> 00:32:56,750 Oh, you most certainly will not. Have you stopped? 473 00:32:58,210 --> 00:32:59,210 What's the matter? 474 00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:01,190 Don't just stand there. Help me. 475 00:33:03,610 --> 00:33:06,310 May I have escaped your notice, Jasper? 476 00:33:07,750 --> 00:33:08,750 Was it you? 477 00:33:09,879 --> 00:33:15,840 Once you waste your time tinkering with that toy, some of us are trying to 478 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,540 preserve our homes and our farms and our very way of life. 479 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:21,520 Thank you, dear. 480 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,720 I will not have my foundation garments in a motion picture. 481 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,100 Not for Thomas Edison, nor anyone else for that matter. 482 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,760 So just be gone with her. Gone. 483 00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:37,700 Don't let me catch you skulking around here with that thing. 484 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:38,960 Gone. 485 00:33:41,639 --> 00:33:44,860 dying. I don't care if it's for the Queen of Sheba. 486 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,700 I'd not let her peruse my laundry either. 487 00:34:02,980 --> 00:34:05,600 Don't look at me, my boy, just act naturally. 488 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,280 I want to see your arm moving back and forward. 489 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:22,940 Would Miss King please clear the picture? 490 00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:27,600 Oh, Jeff, for goodness sakes, shut off that ridiculous contraption. 491 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:29,520 Don't! 492 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,320 Stop it! 493 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,080 Well, Ed, you're pestering the entire community. 494 00:34:36,699 --> 00:34:38,639 He isn't bothering anyone, Aunt Hattie. 495 00:34:38,860 --> 00:34:39,960 Well, he's bothering me. 496 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:44,760 Let go, Clara! 497 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000 Clear! 498 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:51,560 Clear! How can you begrudge me one small convenience? 499 00:34:51,940 --> 00:34:57,440 We are not living in a Dunsville home, so we are not needing a Dunsville 500 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,440 contraction. 501 00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,780 Come on, Bert. 502 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:01,880 What's wrong with a new home? 503 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,420 Stay out of this, Archie. 504 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,780 from that infernal contraction, aren't you, Gillis? You are responsible for 505 00:35:20,780 --> 00:35:23,120 this, Bert. Don't blame Bert Potts. 506 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,900 Blame Hattie King. 507 00:35:25,460 --> 00:35:30,000 She's the one that's responsible for this whole town going berserk. I beg 508 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,980 pardon? She's in cahoots with that despicable Mr. 509 00:35:34,220 --> 00:35:37,920 Dunn. She's stealing money from Sarah's funds to help Mr. 510 00:35:38,140 --> 00:35:39,940 Dunn buy up Avonlea. 511 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,060 You lilly -biggle, that is a bald -faced lie. 512 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,500 Why ever would you dream up such errant nonsense? 513 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,920 All here in your latest novel. The rich niece, the forgery. 514 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:52,780 Deny that if you can, Hattie King. 515 00:35:53,340 --> 00:35:56,000 Don't be ridiculous. It's a novel. 516 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,940 A novel. I made it up. 517 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,420 You didn't make up that telephone call I heard. 518 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:02,800 What telephone call? 519 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,340 I know what I heard. 520 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:09,360 Oh, Wager, somebody ought to get a constable. I listened in on the line, 521 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:14,300 heard you tell Sarah's solicitors that you needed to borrow money from her 522 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:15,300 trust. 523 00:36:15,660 --> 00:36:19,180 Excuse me, but Hedy King is as honest as the day is long. 524 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,940 Oh, thank you, Jasper. Aunt Hedy, listen to me. 525 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,360 It's my fault. 526 00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:26,540 I made that telephone call, and I pretended to be you. 527 00:36:26,780 --> 00:36:28,300 I imitated your voice. 528 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:33,880 I just needed to get the money for that motion picture camera for Jasper. 529 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:37,940 I just thought he should be able to do what he wanted, and I wanted you and 530 00:36:37,940 --> 00:36:39,040 Olivia to stop arguing. 531 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:41,680 Am I? 532 00:36:43,140 --> 00:36:44,140 No, this isn't. 533 00:36:44,330 --> 00:36:45,350 Fine kettle of fish. 534 00:36:45,750 --> 00:36:47,430 You won't get away with this, heavy king. 535 00:36:47,930 --> 00:36:51,330 Now, listen here, you layly bugle. That's quite enough of that. 536 00:36:51,970 --> 00:36:55,470 If you must know, Sarah herself did the damage. 537 00:36:55,810 --> 00:37:01,010 She just told me so, and I'm... Oh, I am shocked and appalled. 538 00:37:01,250 --> 00:37:06,950 Just as she imitated my voice and wheedled funds from her solicitor so she 539 00:37:06,950 --> 00:37:10,810 buy that brother -in -law of mine a camera of all things. 540 00:37:13,290 --> 00:37:16,230 Working for Thomas Edison, my auntie. 541 00:37:19,410 --> 00:37:23,410 Hey, a good money for one of Jasper Dale's inventions. 542 00:37:26,730 --> 00:37:29,030 Uncle Jasper, I'm sorry. 543 00:37:53,610 --> 00:37:56,790 I thought it would be better for everyone if you two stopped arguing over 544 00:37:56,790 --> 00:38:01,010 Jasper. See now what your planks and schemes have brought you to. 545 00:38:01,430 --> 00:38:02,990 Oh, and not just you, my girl. 546 00:38:03,750 --> 00:38:10,230 Why, the humiliation to have had my character impugned and maligned by that 547 00:38:10,230 --> 00:38:12,870 eulalie bugle of all people. 548 00:38:14,410 --> 00:38:19,410 Jasper Dale running amok there with his silly hammer. 549 00:38:20,150 --> 00:38:21,470 You enjoy fighting. 550 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,380 I think Uncle Jasper's clever. He's very clever. And he should be able to 551 00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:29,480 experiment and try out all of his new wonderful ideas. 552 00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:31,980 He should be able to make important discoveries. 553 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,020 Aunt Hattie, he deserves our support because we can afford to give it to him. 554 00:38:37,020 --> 00:38:38,020 support? 555 00:38:38,140 --> 00:38:39,140 That'll be the day. 556 00:38:40,220 --> 00:38:41,960 Now, you listen to me, Sarah Stanley. 557 00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:48,780 If you ever converse with your solicitors again, ever, without my 558 00:38:48,780 --> 00:38:49,780 shall... 559 00:38:51,220 --> 00:38:54,040 Well, I'm not sure what I'll do, but it'll be dramatic. 560 00:38:54,740 --> 00:38:56,080 Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. 561 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,920 If you don't stop picking on Jasper, I'll leave you and I'll go back to 562 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,100 and I'll live with Danny Louisa. 563 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:10,860 You have a kind heart, child. I know 564 00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:11,799 that. 565 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,560 It's just the machinations of your brains I worry about. 566 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:19,720 I'm sorry. I know I'm too wound up about this. It's just I'm afraid. 567 00:39:20,540 --> 00:39:22,100 Afraid for all of us. 568 00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:25,320 Oh, Evan, they can't change it, mustn't they? 569 00:39:25,660 --> 00:39:26,880 I won't let it. 570 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:31,820 May I come in? 571 00:39:32,340 --> 00:39:33,880 Well, I'm not stopping you, Emma. 572 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,840 Did Jasper return the cameras I told him to? 573 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,060 Oh, Eddie, Jasper is so despondent. 574 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:48,440 He spent so much time and energy and he is so close to a breakthrough on 575 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,580 improving that camera. 576 00:39:50,510 --> 00:39:53,210 Won't you let him keep it just to finish his work? 577 00:39:54,330 --> 00:39:55,650 Perhaps I don't understand. 578 00:39:55,950 --> 00:40:02,230 I take it you refuse to help save our land from Mr. Dunn, and yet you want me 579 00:40:02,230 --> 00:40:06,910 now to help out Jasper. Why on earth would I say yes to that request? 580 00:40:07,250 --> 00:40:11,810 Eddie, I didn't mean to go against family wishes. I was only being contrary 581 00:40:11,810 --> 00:40:12,810 oppose you. 582 00:40:13,170 --> 00:40:15,810 I was trying to defend Jasper. 583 00:40:16,910 --> 00:40:18,830 Oh, Eddie, you just don't understand. 584 00:40:19,090 --> 00:40:20,990 Jasper... is devastated. 585 00:40:21,710 --> 00:40:26,470 And you know he really believes all those awful things you have said about 586 00:40:27,150 --> 00:40:30,690 Aunt Hetty, you can't force him to take back that camera. 587 00:40:31,730 --> 00:40:33,570 It's my money and I want him to keep it. 588 00:40:33,990 --> 00:40:37,550 If you don't apologize immediately, I'm packing my bags for Montreal. 589 00:40:40,770 --> 00:40:44,730 And Mr. Edison wasn't really interested in my theory. 590 00:40:47,010 --> 00:40:49,250 What a fool I was for thinking that he might be. 591 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:57,200 And after this, everyone is now convinced that your father is a 592 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,160 crackpot. 593 00:41:00,460 --> 00:41:02,440 Maybe I am. 594 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:06,040 Maybe I am. 595 00:41:07,940 --> 00:41:11,600 But I wanted to do this for you ever so much, my son. 596 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,360 And as I was making these pictures all through the town, I knew that I could 597 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:16,720 make a real motion picture. 598 00:41:18,140 --> 00:41:19,280 Before it's all lost. 599 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,420 A real recording. Something to remember us by. 600 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,200 The way we looked. 601 00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:28,600 The way we laughed. 602 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,900 The way the whole town lived. 603 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,780 I want very badly to give that to you. 604 00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:42,920 Something that you could show your son. 605 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:44,700 One day. 606 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,840 Something that your children would treasure. 607 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,620 Sometime when we're dead. 608 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:53,420 I've let you down, miss. 609 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,360 Eddie. 610 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:02,440 Olivia's not here. 611 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:10,180 Yes, well, I... I'm not here to see Olivia. I'm here to speak 612 00:42:10,180 --> 00:42:12,480 with you, Jasper. I know what you're going to say. 613 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,480 I've already packed it up straight there under your nose. 614 00:42:20,310 --> 00:42:26,210 Jasper Dale, I... I realise we are not all cut out of the same cloth. 615 00:42:26,790 --> 00:42:31,490 No, you are who you are and will do what you do, and that's that. 616 00:42:32,730 --> 00:42:39,650 But maybe you and your newfangled 617 00:42:39,650 --> 00:42:46,430 motion picture, maybe just the thing to save my Avonlea from the 618 00:42:46,430 --> 00:42:47,910 dreaded Dunsville. 619 00:42:49,980 --> 00:42:51,380 You lost me. 620 00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:55,100 We're going to finish your darn moving pictures. 621 00:42:55,620 --> 00:42:59,460 And we'll show them to you at the next town meeting. 622 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,620 Say a change is inevitable. 623 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:04,940 Well, then, let's change their mind. 624 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,880 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for returning this evening in such large 625 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:17,900 numbers. I am pleased to know that so many of you wish to see the world as I 626 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:19,860 heading into a bright future. 627 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:21,100 Make no mistake. 628 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:26,480 What I offer you will raise the standard of living of every man, woman, and 629 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:27,480 child. 630 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:34,980 My associates here will circulate amongst the crowd to collect the signed 631 00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:36,040 by all vendors. 632 00:43:36,580 --> 00:43:43,240 Oh, most eloquent, Mr. Dunn, but first, perhaps you'll let us state our 633 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:44,240 case. 634 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,320 But of course. 635 00:43:47,140 --> 00:43:49,500 It would be a pleasure. The floor is yours, Miss King. 636 00:43:55,420 --> 00:43:55,820 What 637 00:43:55,820 --> 00:44:12,440 is 638 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,360 this? Oh, just an experiment. 639 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:53,520 This is Avonlea. 640 00:44:54,100 --> 00:45:01,080 This is the Avonlea I know, with all its many inhabitants, of whom I'm history 641 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,380 proud to say I'm one. 642 00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:09,000 We are farmers, true. 643 00:45:09,540 --> 00:45:16,000 One and all, we come from noble, hearty stock, Scottish, English, and Irish. 644 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,520 We are proud and God -fearing. 645 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:26,720 Too, I believe that good fortune has shone on us, making this island our very 646 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:27,720 happy home. 647 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,780 And you may be sure that life here isn't all work and no play. 648 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,000 likes its drama. 649 00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:14,940 And we do it, too, with plenty of zip and enthusiasm. 650 00:46:18,780 --> 00:46:25,660 I like to think of us as one large family, and like true family members, 651 00:46:25,820 --> 00:46:28,040 we don't always get along. 652 00:46:43,630 --> 00:46:50,630 We do care a great deal for one another, and one day when we grow old and 653 00:46:50,630 --> 00:46:56,530 bid adieu to this fair earth wonder, hope there'll be others to take our 654 00:46:56,530 --> 00:47:00,630 and feel as passionately about Avonlea as we do. 655 00:47:00,870 --> 00:47:06,570 Why, someday the images you see may be all that's left of the town we love so 656 00:47:06,570 --> 00:47:07,570 dearly. 657 00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:39,160 than I was supposed to be. 658 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,140 Little left to tell of our simple existence. 659 00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:49,260 But then perhaps this moving picture will speak to those who come after of 660 00:47:49,260 --> 00:47:56,100 we P .E. Islanders grew up, lived, married, and died here at the beginning 661 00:47:56,100 --> 00:47:57,380 of the 20th century. 662 00:47:59,020 --> 00:48:05,580 Which is why we have chosen this way to record for all time our response 663 00:48:05,580 --> 00:48:08,930 to... Mr. Dunn's offer to buy up our town. 664 00:48:20,110 --> 00:48:26,030 So, when you look around you at the haunted hill, 665 00:48:26,190 --> 00:48:32,050 at the homestead lights, at the fields tilled by the dead and gone who love 666 00:48:32,230 --> 00:48:34,150 you will say... 667 00:48:35,210 --> 00:48:36,450 Why, I've come home. 668 00:48:37,870 --> 00:48:38,870 Life. 669 00:48:40,090 --> 00:48:46,190 We're lucky enough to live each moment of every day and... Jasper Dale has been 670 00:48:46,190 --> 00:48:52,630 fortuitous and ingenious enough to capture that we and future 671 00:48:52,630 --> 00:48:55,290 generations... We know it. 672 00:49:06,730 --> 00:49:10,390 Thank you, Miss King. If that is the end of your presentation, then my 673 00:49:10,390 --> 00:49:13,030 associates will now pick up the signed offers. 674 00:49:13,470 --> 00:49:15,070 Cash on the barrelhead.