Volume II: Filmography

SNOW STORM AND SUNSHINE

(Falstaff)

February 10, 1916 (Thursday)

Length: 1 reel (1,000 feet)

Character: Comedy

Director: William A. Howell

Assistant director: William Sullivan

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cameraman: George K. Hollister

Cast: Riley Chamberlin (constable), Walter Hiers (tramp)

Locations: New Rochelle and Jacksonville

Notes: 1. This film was started in New Rochelle and completed in Jacksonville, Florida, and was the first Falstaff picture finished in the South. 2. The first word in the title appeared as Snowstorm in some notices.

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, February 5, 1916:

"To be arrested for fighting is not an unusual thing, but causes alter cases. Weary Willie in this case is standing in an orange grove in the sunny South, throwing oranges at a man in the Arctic region, who in turn is pelting Willie with snowballs. The law of compensation works out, for the frigid man sucks the luscious oranges while thirsty Willie in Florida fairly drinks the snowballs. But this only happens until the law gets Willie. The law is said at times to be peculiar, but it was never as peculiar as its particular minion, for as constable he pinches Willie, as judge he tries him, and as jailer he jugs him, thus falling victim to these three graces. This looks bad for the knight of the road until his strange fate leads him again into adventure which helps him make good his escape. He goes back to the zero climate, and just as his star threatens to ascend he finds himself right where he fell asleep at the beginning of our story, shivering alongside of a brother tramp in the cold, cold blasts of a stormy winter."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, February 19, 1916:

"A comedy number, relying more on pictorial effects than plot. Two tramps witness a young man taking a bath amid snow and ice. This is the best feature; it has been done before, but is astonishing and unusual. The contrasting scenes are taken in the South. A fairly strong novelty."

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