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The Old and the New
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Edward Cecil [the bookkeeper], Kate Bruce [the bookkeeper’s wife], Curtis Cooksey [the efficiency expert], Isabel Rea [the expert’s sweetheart]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 4 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The young efficiency expert, home from college, enters his father’s office and begins to demonstrate his methods. “You need a vacation, dad,” he urges, and sends his father off with the assurance that he will look after the business. His first act is to discharge the bookkeeper, a fiddling old fellow who couldn’t recall the combination of the safe without looking up his records. The old man, disconsolate, goes home, tells his anxious wife he has been granted a holiday, and sits down sadly to think things over. Meanwhile the young man’s sweetheart learns what he has done and pleads for the old employee. But the expert tells her she mustn’t bother her pretty head about business, and he’ll take her to lunch. While he is still in the inner office, she playfully enters the vault. He comes out and locks the vault, then misses her and makes inquiry. In panic, he forgets the safe combination, then rushes to the bookkeeper’s home just in time to save the despondent old man from suicide. He goes eagerly to the office to rescue the imprisoned girl, but cannot recall the combination, and his memorandum is destroyed. Instinct, however, still lingers in his sensitive fingertips, and the vault door is opened, none too soon to save the girl’s life.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 22 May 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 3; Tarbox-Lost pp. 237, 279 : Website-IMDb.
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