The Well Sick Man (1913)
- Directed by
- J. Searle Dawley
- Genre
- comedy 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.
How it feels
A businessman fires his daughter's suitor, who is one of his employees. The young man heads west, and the daughter tricks her father into a vacation in California. There, after a near drowning, the fired employee rescues her.
light-heartedplayfulromanticold-fashionedfast-pacedwhimsicalmildly contrivedsilent-era
What happens
The Well Sick Man è un cortometraggio muto del 1913 diretto da J. Searle Dawley. Un uomo d'affari, John Norwood, quando scopre che la figlia Marion è innamorata di uno dei suoi dipendenti, licenzia il giovane che allora parte per il West. La ragazza, non volendo rinunciare all'innamorato, convince il padre di aver bisogno di una bella vacanza e se lo porta in California. Lì, mentre sta per annegare, Marion viene salvata da un giovanotto che si rivela essere l'impiegato licenziato. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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A Serenade by Proxy (1913)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.