The Next Generation (1913)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1913-10-25
Director: L. Rogers Lytton
Writers: Sarah H. Starr
Language: None | English
Stars: Harry T. Morey , Edith Storey , Charles Eldridge , Rose Tapley , Leo Delaney
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Next Generation (United States of America) , The Next Generation
Plot: Vincent Strong, who is acknowledged to be the greatest living ship-designer, is terribly jealous of his reputation. He is considerably annoyed when his brother apprentices his son to him and asks him to make him as great as himself. Nonetheless he takes Carl into his office and gives him every opportunity to learn. Before long Vincent Strong realizes that Carl is determined to be as great a craftsman as himself, if not greater. He becomes uncontrollably jealous, the more so when he realizes that Janice Barnes, the daughter of the president of the S.S. Company, and with whom he is in love, prefers Carl to himself. So egotistic is he that he neglects his invalid wife, who dies while he is courting Janice at a dance. Carl sees Strong's design for a new ship which Barnes is building. He notices that it contains a serious flaw. He tells his uncle of this and shows how the mistake may be covered. Strong tells him that he is an ingrate and impudent upstart. The ship is built in accord with the faulty drawings. Carl rushes into a directors' meeting of the company and tells of what he has discovered. But they will not heed his warning. The ship is launched and Vincent sails with her on her maiden trip. Barnes calls another directors' meeting and Carl tells them that the ship will never reach port, convincing them that he is right. With drawn looks the white-haired directors sit around the office table and, thinking of the thousands of passengers who will perish, all because one man could not master his egotism, and they were blind to the truth. When three days out a terrific tremor is felt by those on the vessel and she founders quickly before all the life-boats can be gotten away from her, taking the panic-stricken passengers down with it, including Vincent Strong. At that very moment Carl is signing a contract to become head ship-designer for the company, and he obtains consent to marry Janice. The next generation has triumphed.
IMDB:tt0223795