The net mender to the rescue.

This early Pickford short is barely 15 minutes long.  Pickford plays a net mender.  The movie opens with her sitting near the shore sewing a net.  Along comes a sailor and proposes marriage.  She accepts, and both seem happy. 

He is however, still attracted to his former flame and cannot stay away from her.  Her brother grabs his gun and decides to put an end to this fishing Romeo, for leading his sister on.  Can the net mender mend bridges and broken hearts as well as nets?

The only thing I got out of this film was that much of it was filmed outside.  Silent movies often did that in order to use the sunlight to light their movies.  Once bright enough lights were perfected, movies moved indoors and too often the studios became too lazy about filming outside, even when the scene took place there.  

Pickford started making movies in 1909 and averaged 50 movies a year for the next few years.  Granted these were all short films, but the young lady was dedicated to her work.  She became a film producer, and one of, if not the most, powerful females in Hollywood during the silent film era.

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