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1912Thanhouser CompanyOne reelComedy

The Crazy Quilt

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Bowers’ notes

This film was shown at Germania Hall, New Rochelle, on the evening of Monday, April 15, 1912 at the Thanhouser Employees’ First Annual Entertainment and Ball. The Moving Picture News reported: “In the entertainment portion of the program, a number of non-released Thanhouser pictures were shown. One of them, which, by the way, caused a great deal of fun, screams of laughter ringing out through the building as it unrolled itself upon the screen. The title of this picture was The Crazy Quilt, prepared especially to get a laugh. In the title you were told that it was ‘joined by the new girl in the joining room;’ and, truly, it did its title proud, for positive and negative mingled with one another in the most astounding and ridiculous fashion—upside down, topsy-turvy, and every other way but the right way.”

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1912 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Crazy Quilt”. thanhouser.org/films/the-crazy-quilt/

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