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

COMEDY. U. D. 3223. HONEYMOON ERS GO TO HOUSE Price, $43.20. KEEPING. Approximate Length, 360 feet. Smith and his wife decide upon a change of residence, which they accomplish in safety; but their troubles begin with the arrangement of furniture, pictures, etc., in their new domicile. With praiseworthy energy the Smiths set to work, but the various articles of domestic use and adornment will not adapt themselves. Everything that will break seems unaccountably to suffer by Smith's unskillful handling. His wife takes her turn in the management of affairs, with no better results. Recriminations and quarrels result, and the position is very strained, when a glance by each one into the hot, dirty and mortified face of the other reveals features so woebegone that mutual affection triumphs, and they agree to make the best of each other and their mutual discomfort. Order of Pictures: Smith arranges his removal and buys new furniture. The pantechnicon arrives at the flat and is unloaded. Husband and wife in their new home. Mutual congratulations. Planning the disposition of the furniture. A hanging jardiniere: a hook already fixed in the ceiling is just the thing. Smith mounts the table, but he is still too short to reach. Places a chair on the table, and mounts that, with dire result: Smith comes a cropper. Mrs. Smith thinks her husband stupid. She will hang the thing herself. But she doesn't. When Smith assists her to rise from the floor, both ruefully survey the fragment of pottery and the contents of a jar of goldfish, both of which are damaged beyond recovery. They agree to try the drawing room, but more smashed bric-abrac results, and it seems really a pity that they troubled to move at all. Smith says so. Mrs. Smith retorts, and a pretty quarrel takes place. Hot and ill-tempered, they next try the kitchen. A porter enters and demands the usual tip. Smith pays up, but the porter wants more — and gets it, in the shape of plates smashed over his pate by the irate Smith. Mrs. Smith suggests that her hubby's face would look the better for a wash. They proceed to the bath room, where, after cooling ablutions, marital serenity is restored. Smith will now arrange the bath room. He drives a nail, and regrets his impetuosity, for the spike pierces a water pipe and floods the room. The miserable couple in vain try every silly means to stop the flow, before the right one presents itself — to Mrs. Smith, of course. She flies to turn off the water. The portrait of a battered and plastered couple is presented the audience, and Smith's troubles are forgotten in the loving solicitude of his spouse. V. D. 3233. MB. SLEEPY HEAD. Price, $36.00. Approximate Length, 300 feet. The scene illustrates a comfortable home and the subject of our story in a drowsy and lascivious mood falling back upon a bed and going soundly asleep. The wife comes in upon him and he is aroused, assisted into his coat and started off to the office. On the train our hero goes to sleep and discommodes other passengers considerably. Finally he reaches the office and, after making a half hearted effort to do his work, relapses into the arms of Morpheus. A violent shock brings him to with a start, upsetting his desk. He is awkward and a drawback to himself in every undertaking. As a guest he is the cause of unmistakable anxiety to his host and, in disgrace, departs. Good detail throughout, and much innocent amusement is experienced. 128