| 00:01:30 90 |
pan of connecticut mansion upper class home
circa 1920s |
| 00:02:00 120 |
young woman dances while mother plays piano
circa 1870s |
| 00:02:40 160 |
cu stern father with mustache young woman and
mother embrace GIRL IS KICKED OUT OF HER HOME FOR MARRYING AN UNDESIRABLE old fashioned family values |
| 00:04:00 240 |
little girl embraces man's leg cu man in top hat
does tricks with cigar smoke blows out of his mouth |
| 00:05:00 300 |
death bed scene little girl kisses dying mother
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| 00:05:20 320 |
lonesome mother misses and longs for run away
child sentimentally goes through old trunk and holds doll |
| 00:06:00 360 |
ms man in top hat sits at card table and writes
letter hugs small child |
| 00:07:10 430 |
circus parade comes to town circus caravan
passes through small american town elephants pulling wagons carnes ext |
| 00:07:30 450 |
circus sideshow acts excited audience
hula dancers in sideshow trained elephant |
| 00:09:45 585 |
lion goes crazy in his cage
strong man acrobats |
| 00:11:35 695 |
sideshow barker does magic tricks ( early
footage of W C Fields performing his juggling act from his vaudeville days ) |
| 00:13:00 780 |
cu ballerina's feet dancing
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| 00:14:00 840 |
three card monte type gambling old army game
betting with walnut shells and peas |
| 00:16:00 960 |
ballerina girl attacked by man in tent
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| 00:17:45 1065 |
angry betters want their money back
riot or fight by angry spectators and circus people rumble brawl |
| 00:19:50 1190 |
comic fist fight
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| 00:22:25 1345 |
cu exterior of mansion
interior of circa 1920 mansion |
| 00:24:00 1440 |
stranded actors asleep at train station
cu telegram |
| 00:25:00 1500 |
girl orders hot dogs and cigar from food stand
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| 00:27:40 1660 |
couple jumps onto moving train
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| 00:29:00 1740 |
cu steam engine at water stop water tower
shots water onto passengers who fall of train slapstick wet scene |
| 00:31:25 1885 |
comedy scenes in old fashioned bakery
man warms himself in bread oven girl sleeps in large bread oven |
| 00:34:10 2050 |
girl shovels coal into bread oven man stuck in
hot oven comic scene man gets hot in oven extreme heat comedy slapstick scene man jumps around in pain in hot oven |
| 00:36:24 2184 |
cools his rear end in sink
scratches his head in surprise |
| 00:38:10 2290 |
entrance of carnival shots of carnival circa
1920s small town traveling carnival |
| 00:45:30 2730 |
young romantic couple lounge on grass love struck
couple embrace on grass romantic courtship scene circa 1920s |
| 00:48:49 2929 |
cu no trespassing private property sign
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| 00:50:15 3015 |
old man gestures for trespassers to leave
property |
| 00:52:00 3120 |
montage of carnival scenes
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| 00:53:20 3200 |
w.c. fields performs act on carnival wagon stage
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| 00:56:40 3400 |
romantic couple embrace snuggle girl strums
ukelele looks surprized when man kisses her |
| 01:01:20 3680 |
society dance in mansion
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| 01:02:50 3770 |
ladies dressing room
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| 01:03:00 3780 |
ms couples dancing foxtrot at society party
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| 01:04:50 3890 |
girl performs her ballet act at society party
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| 01:11:00 4260 |
grandmother has flashback to her daughters life
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| 01:13:00 4380 |
gamblers play card game old army game
three card monty gambling |
| 01:15:30 4530 |
tent falls in on people comic getaway scene
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| 01:19:00 4740 |
girl led to prison enters cell prison cell
empties contents of pocket |
| 01:22:45 4965 |
girl in prison cell through bars
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| 01:24:30 5070 |
courtroom scene judge enters everyone rises
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| 01:34:50 5690 |
cu men change flat tire
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| 01:36:50 5810 |
disrupted courtroom
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| 01:37:40 5860 |
fleeing girl chased by police climbs over fence
runs through streets in town chased on foot by crowd hides in tree speeding car comes to rescue |
| 01:40:00 6000 |
car chase
struggling girl captured |
| 01:45:00 6300 |
hysterical lady
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Specialty CollectionThis reel is currently not available for online viewing.
Year: 1925
Color: Black & White
Genre: SILENT FEATURE FILMS
Description: SIDE 1 00 00 00 SIDE 2 00 55 30 SILENT FILM STARRING W.C. FIELDS. WITH CAROL DEMPSTER, ERVILLE ALDERSON, ALFRED LUNT WARM-HEARTED COMEDY. FIELDS AS PROFESSOR EUSTACE MCGARGLE, A LOVABLY DISREPUTABLE CONFIDENCE MAN WHO BECOMES THE UNLIKELY GUARDIAN OF AN ORPHANED CIRCUS WAIF. INTENDING TO RETURN THE GIRL TO HER GRANDPARENTS, MCGARGLE LEARNS THAT HER WEALTHY & ESTEEMED GRANDFATHER IS A STERN JUDGE WHO HARBORS A DEEP CONTEMPT FOR SHYSTERS & SHOW PEOPLE. FASTER THAN A SUCKER CAN SAY "THREE-CARD-MONTE", MCGARGLE FINDS HIMSELF WANTED BY THE POLICE & & CHASED BY BOOTLEGGERS, WHILE TRYING TO PROTECT HIS CHERISHED SALLY, WHO HAS WON THE AFFECTION OF A SLUMMING SOCIALITE. SALLY SPRY, INNOCENT & HOT-TEMPERED DANCING GIRL WHOLLY DEVOTED TO HER CRIMINAL "POPPY". COMIC JUGGLING & DRY WIT OF W C FIELDS. FOSTER HOME, FORTUNES, CHASE SCENE, CARNIVAL, MISTAKEN IDENTITY, TRIAL, ESCAPE.
