Mother's Boy (1911)

Directed by

Lewin Fitzhamon

Genre

silent film

Country

United Kingdom

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 young clerk steals office money to pay a gambling debt. His mother intervenes to keep him out of prison.

silent-eramelodramaticmoralistictendertensefamily-centric

What happens

Mother's Boy è un cortometraggio muto del 1911, diretto da Lewin Fitzhamon. Un giovane impiegato, per ripagare un debito contratto con un giocatore d'azzardo, ruba la cassaforte dell'ufficio. Si salva dalla prigione per merito di sua madre. (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.