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Mabel Normand (center).
Frame enlargement: Silent Era low-res collection. |
Dash Through the Clouds
AKA {A Dash Through the Clouds}
(1912) American
B&W : Split-reel / 742 feet
Directed by Mack Sennett
Cast: Mabel Normand [Josephine], Philip Parmalee [Slim, the aviator], Fred Mace [Chubby], Sylvia Ashton [Carmelita, Chubby’s flirtation], Jack Pickford [Mexican boy], Kate Bruce [old Mexican woman], William J. Butler, Eddie Dillon, Charles Gorman, Grace Henderson, Harry Hyde, J. Jiquel Lanoe, Alfred Paget
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Dell Henderson. Cinematography by Percy Higginson. / © 28 June 1912 by Biograph Company. Released 24 June 1912; in a split-reel with The New Baby (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in Culver City, California. Parmalee was one of the first aviators trained by Wilbur Wright.
Comedy.
Synopsis: Josephine is being courted by Chubby, a chewing-gum salesman, but she is more interested in airplane pilot Slim. Against the objections of Chubby, Josephine and Slim take a test flight together. The next day, Chubby is making his rounds and meets Carmelita. Her own suitor and her family is upset over the courtship. Chubby sends Josephine a note carried by a Mexican boy, and flees. Meanwhile, Josephine and Slim fly to the rescue. Now saved from harm, Chubby must watch Josephine fly away with Slim.
Survival Status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].
Keywords: Animals: Horses - Cactus - Chases - Flying - Mexicans - Notes - Street scenes - Transportation: Airplanes: Pilots - USA: California: Culver City - Weapons: Guns
Listing updated: 29 May 2008.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Fussell-Normand p. 246; Kerr-Silent p. 65; Niver-First pp. 161-163; Spehr-American pp. 1, 444 : Website-IMDb.
Home Video: DVD.
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