Balked at the Altar (1908)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

12 min

Rating

3.3 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to get married but things go wrong at the altar. The short film shows the comic mishaps that prevent the wedding from happening.

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What happens

Balked at the Altar is a 1908 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress. The film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company when it along with many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at the beginning of the 20th century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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