The Fable of the Toilsome Ascent and the Shining Table Lamp (1917)
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Elsewhere
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How it feels
A silent short film from 1917. It follows a character who tries to climb to success and encounters a shiny table lamp. The story uses this object to teach a lesson about striving and reward.
lightheartedmoralisticwhimsicaldatedsimplequietplayfulsatirical
What happens
The Fable of the Toilsome Ascent and the Shining Table Lamp è un cortometraggio muto del 1917 diretto da Charles J. McGuirk che firma anche la sceneggiatura tratta da una storia dello scrittore George Ade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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