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

COMEDY. U. D. 3218. THE UNLUCKY TROUSERS. Price, $33.60. Approximate Length, 280 feet. A very amusing subject. Our hero goes out for a social evening and, during the course of the social events, he relates a funnystory, which he deigns to illustrate, and in this he has the misfortune to tear his trousers. Very much annoyed he endeavors to cover his misfortune and, when opportunity affords, he slips away and, securing the services of a boy, sends the trousers out to be mended. The boy takes the trousers home, and his mother mends them, but when she leaves the room the boy indiscriminately cuts off a piece from each trouser leg. Upon returning with the trousers he is rewarded and the garment is donned without further examination. Returning to the company he is jubilant because the damage has been repaired, and when later the other guests notice his new plight and he is made aware of it, he is overcome with humiliation and all confused and, unable to offer apologies, he makes his exit. U. D. 3213. COMRADES' RATIONS. Price, $38.40. Approximate Length, 320 feet. This is a very amusing subject and will produce untold wholesome merriment. A raw recruit is instructed to carry the rations for a number of his comrades. On the way he becomes enamored with a damsel going in an opposite direction, and he turns about and follows her. Coming up with her, he is about to speak, when he trips upon an obstruction in the street and, falling, scatters the rations over the street. He hurriedly gathers them up, as well as he can, and scampers on. Finally reaching quarters the almost famished comrades are about to eat when they find all sorts of rubbish mixed with the food. The recruit is censured by the superior officer and a new supply of rations ordered for the men. U. D. 3219. MISADVENTURES OP A STREET Price, $36.84. SINGER. Approximate Length, 307 feet. A squalid attic room is shown, and from the scant furniture visible we see that this serves as living and sleeping room. The husband is scantily attired and munching on a scant supply of food set before him as breakfast. The wife, a woman of strong temperament, is relieving her mind of excess pressure and, from the rapid fire method employed, we see that the masculine contingent is in mortal dread of his avowed helpmeet. Hastily donning an old silk hat and a coat he snatches his guitar and is off, following the vocation of street singer. This morning he meets with ill success and one would not be surprised that he be discouraged, but nothing daunted, he goes on, despite his discouraging experiences and pockets insult and humiliation, and when at last evening comes he is obliged to slink home with nothing to show for his day's efforts. The experiences of the day are manifestations of love as compared with the ordeal he must go through as he enters his domicile and reports his ill success. He assumes the defensive, however, and we see him making strenuous efforts to shield himself. In the melee that follows, what little furniture was apparent is demolished. U. D. 3167. SERVANTS' REVENGE. Price, $68.04. Approximate Length, 567 feet. An amusing as well as a pathetic subject, well rendered and of excellent photographic quality. A physician leaves his home to make the rounds of his patients and, having evidently forgotten something, returns un 123