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Helping John (1912)

Helping John poster
Directed by
Bannister Merwin
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short silent comedy from 1912. It follows a person named John who gets some help from friends or neighbors, leading to minor humorous situations.

lightheartedplayfulbrisksimplemildly amusingnostalgicstraightforwardearly-cinema

What happens

Helping John is a 1912 short American silent comedy written Bannister Merwin, directed by Harold M. Shaw, and produced by the Edison Company at its main studio in New York City, in the Bronx. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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