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The Fable of the Prevailing Craze

Item number (ISN):

43801

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1914 ?

Item number (ISN):

43801

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Accession:

1979-0191

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1914 ?

Production company:

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

Production credit:

scenario, George Ade

Cast credit:

Charlotte Mineau, Wallace Beery

Description:

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This film begins with a view of a room. On the back wall is a sign reading "Dancing Lessons Crash". The teacher, Madame Cassell, and her pupil, an auto enthusiast, dance with some difficulty. The piano player provides the music. They stop and the pupil pulls a harmonica out of his pocket. He plays a few bars of something. The piano player picks it up. The teacher and pupil continue dancing. They stop dancing and the piano player points to the time. An intertitle reads: "Fifty Bucks for an Hour -- and she earned every Cent of it." The student pays the money. He asks the teacher a question. The intertitle reads: "The famous Hesitationer, One-Stepper and Tangoer, is invited to take the Air in his 200 H.P. imported Car." She accepts and they leave. She gets in to a car on a city street. An intertitle reads: "Speed Limit 8 miles an hour." There is a shot of them racing through town and the country, raising a cloud of dust on the dirt roads. The next intertitles say: "The Speed maniacs bumped right into the Majesty and Dignity of the Law. A Constable -- Billy Robinson". A short police officer flags them down. Madame Cassel gets out of the car, dances a few steps and shows him her card. The intertitle reads: "How do I know you are Madame Cassel? Why, she is the Durndest Dancer in the whole world!" The pupil pulls out his harmonica and Madame Cassell dances with the police officer.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

D-529

Notes:

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1. George Ade died in 1944.~2. One of the three films on the film reel.

Genre:

COMEDY

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

172874

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8103-0414

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

D-0529

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

172875

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8103-0415

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8103-0414

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

211041

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-7131

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Max. shrinkage:

2.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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