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Cartoons in a Hotel
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Raoul Barré
Cast: Andy Clark, Guido Colucci, Gladys Leslie, Julian Reed
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Raoul Barré. / Released 30 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Live action with animated sequences.
Comedy: Cartoon.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The film opens with a scene in a hotel lobby. Bobby, the bellboy, is busily engaged in a perusal of “The Grouch Chaser.” Mae, the telephone operator, is attending to everything but the switchboard. A travelling man enters and soon is telling a story. Bobby is apparently dissatisfied with the way in which the story was told and refers them to “The Grouch Chaser,” which contains a cartoon illustrating the same idea. “Tales of Silas Bunkum” is the first tickler. Silas tells his yarns in such a way as to hold the attention of all in the lobby. The salesman takes hold of Mae’s hand, and caresses it fondly. There is a large solitaire diamond on the hand. The hook is again referred to and Silas is seen to be the target for all kinds of fruit and vegetables. A crook, meantime, has entered and removed the ring from Mae’s finger, she being too absorbed in “The Grouch Chaser” to notice it. She discovers her loss later and accuses the salesman. The crook is unsuspected and goes to register. He is joined by the salesman, and they turn the pages of the book to “A Chip of the Old Block.” In this story an artist draws a girl and leaves the studio. The artist’s son enters and draws a picture of his father adjoining it. The drawings come to life and some funny situations are resultant. The salesman throws back, his head to laugh, and the crook tries to remove his scarf pin, but is caught in the act and turned over to the police. “Mr. Hicks in Nightmareland:” Hicks dreams he has a powder that will neutralize his wife’s irascibility and starts to blow the magical powder into the air upon returning home from a café. He wakes up to find that he is blowing into his wife’s face. Mrs. Hicks is thus irritated, and kicks Hercules into the waste basket.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Animation
Listing updated: 19 November 2022.
References: Everson-American p. 209 : Website-IMDb.
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