The Maid's Stratagem (1912)

Directed by

Frederick A. Thomson

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

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.

More films like this

How it feels

A maid uses a clever trick to achieve her goal. The film is a short silent movie from 1912.

shortsilentlightplayfulbrisksimpleold-fashioned

What happens

The Maid's Stratagem è un cortometraggio muto del 1912 diretto da Frederick A. Thomson, un regista canadese che aveva cominciato la sua carriera di regista nel 1910 alla Vitagraph dirigendo Helene Costello. Il film fu una delle ultime interpretazioni di John R. Cumpson che sarebbe morto l'anno seguente, il 15 marzo 1913 a 46 anni. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• There's Many a Slip (1912)
• The Dummy Director (1912)
• Lessons in Courtship (1912)
• The Manicurist (1912)
• To Err Is Human (1912)
• A Gay Deceiver (1912)
• The Recoil (1912)
• The Impostor (1912)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.