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HISTORICAL FILMS

1973-0275

Film

Her First Biscuits

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1909-04-20

1909-06-17

Biograph Company

director, D.W. Griffith; scenario, Frank Woods or D.W. Griffith; photography, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer

John R. Cumpson, Marion Leonard, Florence Lawrence, Anita Hendrie, Arthur Johnson, Flora Finch, Harry Myers, Mack Sennett, Owen Moore, Mary Pickford

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Biograph Company

A young woman (Marion Leonard) cooks biscuits for the first time. She removes them from the oven, puts them on a plate, and presents them to her husband (John R. Cumpson). The results are so dire that he tries to throw them out of the window when she is not looking. Presently he leaves for his office, a theatrical booking agency, where he suffers violent stomach pains. She follows him to his office and drops off a box of her biscuits. The film then cross cuts between the office, where various and sundry actors seeking work (one is a ten-year old played by Mary Pickford) eat the biscuits and suffer for it, and the home, where three tradesmen help themselves and suffer a similar fate. The actors then follow the couple home where they find the tradesmen comatose. Belatedly she tries the biscuits herself then throws them in the air to general applause. <5mn 37s>

Silent

COMEDY

Open

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V1 2005-04-0016

Copyright expired.

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Copyright has expired on all titles except the D.W. Griffith material.~Assuming director D.W. Griffith to be the creator, the D.W. Griffith material should be clear of copyright restrictions January 1, 1999: Griffith died in 1948.~Kemp Niver died in 1996.~Historical Films is now defunct.