Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Messenger Boy's Mistake - 1903


Country: USA
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson (Messenger Boy)
Release Date: October 1903 (USA)
Production Co: Edison Manufacturing Company
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Genres: Short | Comedy | Romance
"Cholly" wishes to call on his best girl and sends her a large bouquet. To find out if the girl really loves him, he sends a note with the messenger boy requesting her to "wear this" if she does. The boy delivers the note and a package which the young lady opens and finds an old pair of trousers and other masculine wearing apparel. She becomes enraged. When "Cholly" comes she proceeds to give him instructions as to what to do in the future, etc., but before she finishes, the boy, having discovered his mistake, returns with the right box. "Cholly" hastily closes up the wrong one, hands it to the boy and kicks him out of the door. He then opens the right box and presents the bouquet himself. She wears the flowers, and things are now all right. Written by Edison Catalog.

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