Revised list of high-class original motion picture films (1908)

COMEDY. her stock, when she discovers her loss. Comical expressions of dismay follow, and she returns in search of the missing eggs. The mischievous children have prepared for emergencies. They stretch a rope across the path, over which the woman trips and comes to more ignominious grief. "Open your mouth and shut your eyes." Baby indulges father with a sweet. He asks for another, and she slyly inserts a snowball into his mouth. A pretty picture. A snow man is next presented, and father, an enthusiastic photographer, poses mother in an adoring attitude with her arms around the frigid neck of the image. The children discover the proceedings from a balcony, and resent the fact that mother should thus waste the embraces which belong to them. They collect a quantity of snow, which they throw down upon the artist. Dance of joy on the balcony as the avalanche falls. Mother again poses, when the ridiculousness of the situation dawns upon her and she upsets the snow man upon the operator. A battle royal with snowball ammunition follows, in which mother and children attack father, who flies into the house. The children bombard the glass door, and an unusual and pretty effect is produced by the melting snow as it glides down the window pane. V. D. 3164. THE ARTISTS MODEL. Price, $58.08. Approximate Length, 484 feet. An artist sends a man after a suitable model for his studio. Taking the message to the model maker he receives the model and, with this mounted on his back, he starts back for the artist. On the way he stops for a drink, and several boys purloin the model. He goes to give chase, out as he has not paid for his drink he is detained, and after paying for the drinks he finds no trace of the boys. The latter have made away with the model and are playing a joke on the janitor of an apartment building. They push the bell, and, as he answers, they scamper off. Trying the same thing for the third time they set the model up in the corner near1 the door and run away. When the irate janitor appears he belabors the model with a broom. The inanimate object collapses and, overcome with fright, he calls his wife and together they carry the model away, thinking that the janitor has committed murder. They take the figure to a little square a short distance away and set it on a bench and then return to their home. Coming down the street are two figures, looking furtively in all directions. They espy what they deem a man dozing away on the bench. Cautiously drawing near from the back they attack the man, stab him in the back and go to search his clothes, when the deception is detected. Nothing daunted, they conclude to play a trick on some one else and, carrying the figure between them in an upright position, they pass on down the street. As they approach a corner they see an automobile coming along and, going out into the street, they drop the model in front of the car and jump. The car, of course, goes over the figure and immediately comes to a stop. Soon a crowd gathers and the occupants of the car, two of them, are roughly used. When the police appear they bustle off to the station. The motorists receive more severe treatment. Finally the magistrate detects that the figure is only a model and not human, and the men are released. but the complainants roughly handled and incarcerated. In the meantime the man seeking his model reports his loss to the police. The wreck is delivered and with this he now reports to the artist, who fairly raves as he views the sight of what is delivered to him. The man is lifted out of the establishment on the foot of the artist, all amazed at the turn of affairs, for which he is entirely faultless. 122