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

COMEDY. TJ. D. 3144. MY WIPE'S BIRTHDAY. Price, $33.60. Approximate Length, 280 feet. A comic film with a decided moral. Hubby leaving home, is called back by his wife, who reminds him that this is her birthday. She furnishes money for purchases to celebrate the occasion. He celebrates, in a manner not contemplated, and then buys flowers. Further celebrations: drinks round with all comers. Full up, he departs, in jovial mood. He purchases an iced and decorated cake at a pastrycook's and, with this, the flowers and his potations, he has quite as much as he can carry. He meets a lady; casually shows her his cake. She resents the liberty, seizes the cake and ices his face with the sticky decoration. Beggars by the roadside are next greeted by the roysterer. He familiarly chucks the old beggar woman under the chin. She objects and belabors him, finally jumping upon his prostrate form. Fishing scene at the riverside. Angler, jovially accosted, loses his temper and throws the toper into the water. A stoneyard offers temptations. The reveler spreads his outer garments to dry and himself goes to sleep. His clothes are stolen. Very lightly clad he seeks his home and spouse, where he receives well-merited chastisement at her hands — which clutch a broom. The inebriate hubby is first unmercifully thrashed, and then dragged under the water tap, where he is copiously drenched. The incident closes with the picture of a still jolly celebrant drinking his wife's health in a less heady liquid supplied by the Water Works Company. U. D. 3216. ELECTRIC BATTERY. Price, $34.44. Approximate Length, 287 feet. Highly amusing throughout and certain to make a hit everywhere. Several boys purchase a medical battery and then go out to have some fun with it. The experiments they undertake are unique and the results are bound to touch the humorous chord of even the most eccentric. The scenes illustrated are as follows: Purchase of battery. Trial in the library at home — one of the boys shocked by the trick of the other. Application of current to bench on which tramp is sleeping — humorous antics of the latter as the current passes through him. Battery attached to a carriage, and the subsequent occupants, as well as coachman, experience a lively time throughout the entire trip. Current applied to kitchen utensils, and cook gets a severe shock — boys scamper off in haste with cook in pursuit. A young lady seated on a cane chair finds the seat most uncomfortable after the boys apply the current to it. Next a painter is precipitated to the ground from his ladder by the current applied to his perch. The boys now repair to the house and, entering a room on the second floor, attach the electrodes to the knob of the door, from the inside, so that the first person touching the knob with the intention of entering is held there by the current and yells with pain. Subsequent visitors rush up the stairs and, desiring to lend assistance, take hold of the unfortunate man and soon form a long string down the staircase, all shouting and yelling until the boys turn off the current, when they make their exit in haste. They now enter the garden and attach the current to the nozzle of the hose, but are observed by the father. When the gardener takes hold of the hose he goes through some queer antics, and father comes to the rescue and, bringing up the boys, he holds them while the flow of water is directed on the miscreants. 129