Learning to Be a Father Filming Locations

Captain Silas Tugg, of the schooner Helen, is a hater of women and all their doings. He has forbidden his mate, Tom Burns, to marry. Tom tells his sweetheart of his captain's crustiness. Tugg won't listen to a word of their marriage, nor allow sweethearting on the vessel. The second mate, Jim Fing, a married man with three young children, is not afraid of Captain Tugg. He brings his wife and family aboard on Sunday. Mrs. King, in her matronly way, promptly places the children in the most sacred place in the cabin, gives her baby the most sacred thing of all, the Sextant, to play with, and proceeds to clean up the cabin. Captain Tugg comes in roaring wildly, tries to get rid of Mrs. Fing, but is himself captured by the baby. Finally he calls the cook, and astonishes him by ordering to prepare all sorts of sweetmeats for the children. The cook is horrified at the change in his master, and attempts, with dire results, to take the baby away from the captain. "Mind the pots; babies are not in your line," says the captain. His mate, Burns, sees this and calls his sweetheart. "What a pity the skipper hasn't a child of his own," says the mate. Influenced by this, Captain Tugg secretly goes to a foundling establishment, and, after ramming his way through, left with a fourteen-months' old baby. Knowing nothing of babies, the captain gives the new caller his own room, and orders the cook to do his level best to provide dainties. The baby absolutely refuses to do anything but squall. A council of war on the part of Captain Tugg and the cook results in nothing but the cook finally losing his temper. Captain Tugg then consults his second officer, the married man, who promptly provides first aid for a hungry baby, in the shape of a warm bottle, which is performed in the admiring presence of the captain, the mate, the cook and three sailors through the skylight above. The baby, once asleep. Captain Tugg goes into the cabin, still marked from the visit of Mrs. Fing and her babies, picks up the Sextant, the most cherished emblem, and gives to baby in token of complete surrender. He then proceeds to an employment office and engages a middle-aged woman as nurse. The nurse promptly takes possession of the ship. At this point, Edith Wild, the mate's sweetheart, makes it a point to come to the captain and put it up to him that she will not allow Burns, the mate, to sail on a ship so strangely inhabited. This maneuvering worked, and the captain finally consults the cook, whose idea is: "Get rid of babies and the woman; old times are best." The nurse overhears this and protests for her protege, and the only way that the captain sees out of it is to marry the nurse, which he promptly does. The cook, to get revenge, then takes the part of the mate and his sweetheart, and when the minister comes aboard to marry the captain and the nurse, with the baby in the nurse's arms. Wild and Edith also step in as bold as brass.