The Dawn of Understanding [SEP] cast member
The Dawn of Understanding
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent comedy Western film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph. It is based on the short story "The Judgement of Bolinas Plain" by 19th century western writer Bret Harte.
Plot.
In 1849, the Silas Prescott (Williams) and his family travel west to the California gold fields by prairie schooner. Along the difficult
point in a chart cast for dawn, is the "anticulmination" of the Sun, or the Imum Coeli, which is Latin for the "bottom of the sky." This is the last of the four "angles."
The angles are crucial to the understanding of the meaning of the sky map to the individual or event for which it was cast. There are no more individual points in chart. Much has been made by astrologers (deriving from the Theosophical tradition that is closely linked to much of modern