Cheating the Piper (1920)

Original title

Jerry on the Job: Cheating the Piper

Directed by

Vernon Stallings

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

2.7 of 10 from 3 voters

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

This silent animated short reimagines the Pied Piper story. A piper uses his music to lure away the town's children and the cartoon characters must find a way to stop him.

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What happens

Cheating the Piper is a 1920 American silent short animated film by Bray Productions, and is one of the cartoons based on the comic strip Jerry on the Job since the series started in 1916. The film itself is loosely based on the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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