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Her Terrible Ordeal

Item number (ISN):

22467

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1909

Item number (ISN):

22467

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY / MUSÉE NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE

Accession:

1978-0226

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1909

Release date:

1910

Production company:

Biograph Company

Production credit:

director/scenario, D.W. Griffith; photography, G.W. Bitzer

Cast credit:

Florence Barker, George Nichols, Owen Moore, Charles Craig

Description:

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Short film about a secretary who gets locked in the office safe. It begins with scenes of the secretary and a male employee arriving at the office, the arrival of Jack Curtis, the son of her boss, at the office to see her, and the arrival of some men at the office of [Lynwood] Park. Cut to scene back in the office, where Jack holds her hands. The boss, Mr. Curtis, arrives, more men arrive and the office gets busy. The boss leaves but forgets his pocket-book. Jack hastens after him to return it. Meanwhile, a peddler enters the office while the secretary is alone, pushes her into the large safe and locks her in. Jack returns to find the office empty, and realizes she is trapped in the safe. He does not know the combination. She pounds on the door. Jack panics. He runs out to find help. Meanwhile the secretary is becoming despondent and weak. Jack goes to the train platform to find his father, can't find him and sends a Western Union telegram to the conductor of a recently-departed train to tell his father that he needs to get off the train to deal with an urgent matter. Meanwhile the father returns to the office, does not realize anything is amiss and gets some forgotten papers and leaves. Jack gets a reply that there is no Mr. Curtis on the train. The action returns to the office, where another man is admiring himself in the mirror. Jack returns and tries to get into the safe. Jack finally finds his father. Jack and his father return and free the secretary, she passes out and they revive her. <10mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

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1. Head title states: Copyright 1909, Biograph Company, New York.~2. Heavily scratched at start.

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Vault ISN:

19565

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4141

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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