The Curtain Pole

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing…

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing…

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year’s Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very…
Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses’ residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch ‘the acting bug’ in this split-reel subject.

Harry’s rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry’s wife has to play the part of the housekeeper so Uncle doesn’t discover the truth.
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn’t stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his…

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs…