The Meeting (1917)

Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy Bobby Connelly and the grumpy Captain BarnacleWilliam Shea This seems to be the first film in a shortlived Captain Barnacle series that Vitagraph started at the beginning of 1917 Young Bobby Connelly was one of the first star child actors and his character Sonny Boy links the two series he did for Vitagraph the Sonny Jim series from 1914 to 1915 and the Bobby series in 1917