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One Busy Hour
(1909) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 279 feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: John R. Cumpson [Jim Smith], Herbert Prior [Hiram Greengage], Mack Sennett [a man in the store], Harry Solter [a man in the store], Charles Avery [a man in the store], [?] Edward Dillon?, [?] Robert Harron?, [?] Anita Hendrie?, [?] Charles Inslee?, [?] Florence Lawrence?, [?] Violet Mersereau?, [?] David Miles?, [?] Owen Moore?, [?] George Nichols?, [?] Anthony O'Sullivan?
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer and Arthur Marvin. / © 6 May 1909 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H126642]. Released 6 May 1909; in a split-reel with The Note in the Shoe (1909). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Jim Smith kept a grocery store and business got so quiet that his hardest work was to keep his clerks awake. He at length decided to sell out and inserted an advertisement in the paper to that effect. Old Hiram Greengage sees the “ad” and calls on Smith at his residence and promises to look over the store. Jim gets busy: gathering his friends, he gives each a dollar note with which to come to the store and make purchases while Hiram is there. Suddenly, mobs of customers are clamoring to be waited on and the efforts of Jim and the clerks are taxed to the limit. Things certainly look rosy for Jim, when Hiram leaves apparently satisfied saying he will let him know in an hour. Later Jim receives a note: “Dear Mr. Smith: Your store has all the business you claim, but I am too old to take charge of such a rushing business. Yours. Hiram Greengage.” Now wouldn’t it jar you?
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 22 May 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 41; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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