What the papers said
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15 April 1916The Florida Metropolis1 min
“Did you see Bill Burt and his banner in the Falstaff political speech-making scene taken near the Windsor Hotel, last Saturday? Well, even his friends did not know him, as he wore some ordinary glasses in place of those shelled affairs that usually adorn his sniffers.”
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- Director
- Claude Cooper
- Cast
- Al Bucky as bit part
- Tracey Hollingsworth as bit part
- William Sullivan as juvenile lead
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- Filmed in
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Bowers’ notes
This film was produced during the first and second weeks of April 1916 but, so far as is known, was never released. Bit parts in the film were played by Tracey Hollingsworth, who was best known in real life as the author of the “Flivers From Film Folk” column in the Jacksonville Florida Metropolis, and Al Bucky, a Jacksonville city councilman. Both were in a civic parade featuring black musicians, on Saturday, April 8, 1916. Claude Cooper, best known as an actor, directed the picture.
From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1916 →
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Making the Major a Mayor”. thanhouser.org/films/making-the-major-a-mayor/
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