The Trick That Failed (1909)

Original title

The Trick that Failed

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man tries to use a trick to get what he wants. His plan backfires, leading to an unexpected outcome.

silent-eraarchaicsimpleunderstatedstaticstraightforwardrestrained

What happens

The Trick That Failed è un cortometraggio muto del 1909 diretto da David W. Griffith. Sceneggiato da Stanner E.V. Taylor, il film fu interpretato, nei ruoli principali, da Mary Pickford, Arthur V. Johnson, Anthony O'Sullivan e George Nichols. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.