Her Crowning Glory - 1911

Country: United States

Language: English

Stars: John Bunny, Flora Finch and Helene Costello

Release Date: 12 September 1911 (USA)

Production Co: Vitagraph Company of America

Runtime: 14 min (19 fps)

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Plot Keywords: Nurse | Governess | Widower | Sister | Jealousy  | Cigar Smoking | Marriage Proposal | Haircut | Spanking

Genres: Comedy | Short 

A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse. A widower has been bringing up his young daughter with the help of a nurse. The widower's sister, though, considers the child to be spoiled and undisciplined, so she insists on hiring a strict governess for the girl. When the governess arrives, both the daughter and the nurse dislike her, but the father is captivated by the governess's long, wavy, chestnut-colored hair. When the father asks the governess to marry him, the nurse and the daughter realize that they have to act quickly.

Trivia

One of the 50 films in the 4-disk boxed DVD set called "Treasures from American Film Archives (2000)", compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 18 American film archives. This film was preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. This version has a piano music score and runs 14 minutes. Only 4 of John Bunny's 162 films are known to have survived. 

The Totville Eye - 1912

Country: United States

Language: English

Director: C.J. Williams

Writer: Bannister Merwin (scenario)

Stars: Walter Edwin, Yale Boss and Robert Brower

Release Date: 27 November 1912 (USA)

Production Co: Edison Company

Runtime: 14 min

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Short | Comedy

A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away. Scotty and his young helper Sammy do the printing for the local newspaper, The Totville Eye. Scotty has ideas for improving the paper, but his stodgy editor refuses to change anything. When the editor is called away by a family illness, Scotty is left in charge. He soon puts Sammy to work as a cub reporter, and the stories in the paper's next edition are quite a bit different from its usual content.

Connections

Edison: The Invention of the Movies (2005) (Video). The entire film is included on the DVD 

The Struggle - 1913

The Struggle

(1913) American

B&W : Two reels

Directed by Jack Conway and Frank E. Montgomery (Frank Montgomery)

Cast: Princess Red Wing, J. Barney Sherry, Jack Conway, Edna Maison, Elmer Morrow, Francis Ford, Richard Stanton

New York Motion Picture Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [101-Bison]. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Scenario by William Clifford. / Released 23 September 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm positive].

Keywords: Chases - Transportation: Stagecoaches

Listing updated: 9 March 2011.

References: ClasIm-224 p. 42 : Website-GEH; Website-IMDb; Website-NFPF.

This review was extracted from the site Silent Era: http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/Struggle1913-3.html

Thirty Days at Hard Labor - 1912

Country: United States

Language: English

Director: Oscar Apfel

Writer: O. Henry (story)

Stars: Robert Brower, Mary Fuller and Harold M. Shaw

Release Date: 9 January 1912 (USA)

Production Co: Edison Company

Runtime: 16 min

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Short | Comedy

Jack and Beatrice meet and fall in love, but Beatrice's father objects, because Jack's family is wealthy, and Jack has never had to work for a living. He makes Jack sign an agreement that he will make a living with his own hands for thirty days, to prove himself, before he sees Beatrice again. Jack's first attempts at manual labor are failures, but he finally finds an unusual job at a restaurant that gives him hope of fulfilling the agreement.

Trivia

A copy of this film survives at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Connections

Edison: The Invention of the Movies (2005) (Video) - The entire film is included on the DVD  

Ten Dollars or Ten Days - 1924

Country: United States

Language: English (intertitles)

Director: Del Lord

Writer: John A. Waldron (titles)

Stars: Ben Turpin, Harry Gribbon and Irene

Release Date: 6 January 1924 (USA)

Production Co: Mack Sennett Comedies

Runtime: USA: 20 min

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Plot Keywords: Repetition In Title | Number In Title

Genres: Comedy | Short

In part because of a bad night of sleep, a soda clerk at a department store is having a bad day at work, which negatively affects his relationship with a pretty cashier, to who he is attracted, and a ribbon clerk, who is also attracted to the cashier. The next morning, the cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing. The soda clerk is charged and imprisoned, with the cashier being released. Certain parties come into possession of important evidence both about the robbery and the nightwatchman's disappearance. They need to get this evidence to the proper authorities for justice to be served, which ends up not being the easiest of tasks for anyone involved.  

A Grocery Clerk's Romance - 1912

Country: United States

Language: English

Director: Mack Sennett

Stars: Ford Sterling, James C. Morton and Gus Pixley

Release Date: 28 October 1912 (USA)

Filming Locations: Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA

Production Co: Keystone Film Company

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Short | Comedy

Trivia

Released as a split reel along with the comedy At Coney Island. 

Fired Again - 1920

Country: United States

Al St. John in Fired Again from 1920. Probably a re-release of Ship Ahoy, also from 1920.