[1] In Indiana in 1893, Katherine Comstock discusses with her neighbors Margaret and Wesley Sinton about her child who is due.

Katherine's husband Robert is walking back home that night and takes a path through the Limberlost swamp, but he gets tripped up and falls into a pool of quicksand.

Later, after the birth of the child, who has been named Elnora, Wesley and Margaret are seen with the baby, discussing how sad it is that Katherine dislikes her newborn daughter.

Elnora tells her mother that she is going to high school, though Kathrine initially refuses, wanting her daughter to stay home and do chores.

On her way to school, Elnora stops by the Limberlost swamp at a tree, where inside she has been storing some of her belongings, including a moth collection.

When Elnora heads to school for her second day, she catches a young boy named Billy attempting to steal from someone's home.

On her way home, Elnora encounters Billy again, who tells her that his dad is too sick, that he won't move or talk.

In June 1913, Elnora is seen writing a letter to Phillip, letting him know that she has saved up enough money to pay for college, and that she no longer needs his help as he had once promised to her.

Katherine heads to Mrs. Parker's house to find Elnora, and begs her for forgiveness for treating her so terribly over a man who never loved her like she had thought.

The next day, Phillip goes to the Comstock house to tell Elnora that he and Edith have ended their engagement, and wishes to have a relationship with her instead.

Their announcement also included that Eddie Nugent, Gigi Parrish, Barbra Bedford, and Betty Blythe were signed for the film and that W.T.

We sprinted through that feature-length juvenile masterpiece in five days flat, something of a record even in my book.”[6]The world premiere of the film was set for the week of September 15, 1934 at the Broadway Portland.