Volume II: Filmography

GUIDERS

(Falstaff)

(Mutual Program)

August 15, 1916 (Tuesday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Cast: "Oscar and Conrad:" Claude Cooper (Oscar) and Frank E. McNish (Conrad); Louise Emerald Bates

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

Notes: 1. This was a left-over film, released on the Mutual Program, and made before Thanhouser affiliated with the Pathé Exchange, Inc. This and other left-over films were listed in the Mutual Program appearing in Reel Life, and synopses were printed. 2. The title was listed erroneously as Guides in a schedule printed in The Moving Picture World, August 13, 1916.

SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, September 2, 1916:

"Oscar and Conrad become 'gentleman guides' and decorate themselves as secret society emblems for reasons best known to themselves. Oscar gets a job as a 'guider' and Conrad goes along as an assistant. At the alligator farm a sleepy old codger took a liking to Oscar's trouser leg and managed to bite off a memento. Later, on the beach, Conrad started a flirtation with a strange girl, but fortunately for the Miss, she knew how to scream. A mile away the police reserves heard it and came on the run. The sea was the only means of retreat, and into it the badly scared 'guiders' sought refuge. Lifesavers, coming to the rescue of the fair maiden, pulled them into the boat. Fear of capture put new life into the fleeing men, who turned on these men in the boat and through them into the water. Then they all rowed to safety."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, August 26, 1916:

"A moderately entertaining comedy in which a couple of idlers get jobs as guides. They make failures in their first attempts, one of them getting into a pretty scrape by falling in love with a feminine adjunct of guider No. 2. This is very slight of plot, and cannot be strongly recommended as a laugh-giving comedy."

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