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HIS WEDDING MORNING (Great Britain, 1908)
The misfortunes of a bridegroom on his wedding morn. He falls into a waterbutt, is nearly arrested as a tramp, bumps into a sweep and is covered with soot, and is eventually beaten, on his arrival at church, by the bride's enraged father. On his return home, he sees from the calendar that it is Friday, the thirteenth of the month.
production : Cricks and Martin.
Positive, one reel, condition : Good.
HOBOKEN TO HOLLYWOOD (America, 1918)
A 16 mm. copy of a slapstick comedy in three parts involving a journey by
motor car to Hollywood.
production : Unknown.
Positive, 2 co ft. condition : Fairly good. donor : Harry Price Esq.
HOTEL MIX-UP (America, 19 14)
One of the earliest films of Chaplin. He plays the part of an inebriate who becomes involved in a series of domestic tangles in a hotel. (Issued in America under the title MabeV s Strange Predicament).
production : W. H. Productions Co. Directed by Mack Sennett, with Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, and Chester Conklin.
Positive, one reel, condition : Fair. donor : Harry Price Esq.
HOW FOOLSHEAD PAYS HIS DEBTS (Italy)
Foolshead, badgered by creditors, escapes them by tricks of disappearance and fading through doors and walls. He gets into a magic bag which moves mysteriously of its own accord. The creditors chase the bag through the streets but it always eludes them. Two tourists buy the bag from Foolshead and get into it. The creditors catch it, and turn out the two tourists whom they beat. The tourists then turn round to beat Foolshead but he has half-faded into a wall. The film closes with an enlarged view of the tourists trying in vain to beat a diaphanous Foolshead.
production : Italia.
Positive, one reel, condition : Fair; complete, but worn.
HOW THE TRAMP GOT THE LUNCH (America, 1909)
A tramp, failing to win a share of the workman's lunch by good-humoured persuasion, pushes him into a barrel and rolls him down the hill. The barrel's career, however, is stopped by a friend of the workman and the two return to punish the tramp.
production : Edison.
Positive, one reel, condition -.Poor. on loan from : Fownley Searle Esq.
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