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[The Trading Stamp Mania]
Also known as The Trading Stamp Mania in the USA
(1911) France
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Charles Arling [Mr. Billy]
Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes production; distributed by Compagnie Genérale des Établissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA on 5 April 1911.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Mrs. Billy kisses Mr. Billy good-bye and he leaves for work. Immediately after his departure Mrs. B. looks up her trading stamp books and finds that she has several pages left to fill. Also she notices that the big stores are giving double stamps in the morning. Consequently, Mrs. B. starts on a round of stamp collecting that would get most households to sit up and take notice. At 12 o’clock Mr. Billy returns. Mrs. Billy is still absent, so the lonely representative of the strong sex starts in to get his own lunch. In the midst of it he is interrupted by a call at the bell and goes to open the door, admitting a boy with about fifty bundles. While he sits down to examine these, the kitchen is flooded and when he returns he finishes his lunch knee deep in water. This gives him a cold and he promptly goes to bed, where Mrs. B. finds him when she returns. She then goes for the doctor, but finding that he gives double stamps for morning calls, postpones the trip for the next day, while poor little Billy lies in bed sick. After the doctor’s visit the next day, Mrs. Billy has only one page left to fill, so she buys a coffin at an undertaking establishment where they give stamps. Then she goes to a premium parlor and gets in return for all her books the loveliest little lamp that ever sold for 98¢. This she brings home and promptly lights. Of course, the fool thing explodes and the whole house is set on fire, poor Billy dancing an accompaniment with the playing of the hose in his bare feet. In the midst of all the confusion Mr. Solemncoly, the undertaker, enters with the coffin. The result can be better imagined than told. Anyhow, Mrs. Billy never saved another stamp.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Listing updated: 11 October 2023.
References: Lahue-World p. 8 : Website-IMDb.
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