Volume II: Filmography

SNAPSHOTS

August 24, 1915 (Tuesday)

Length: 2 reels

Character: Drama

Cast: Justus D. Barnes (Henry Spear, editor), Grace DeCarlton (Rosalie, his daughter), Ethyle Cooke (Aunt Marie), Leland Benham (Dicky, her son), Harris Gordon (Mansfield Hite), Arthur Bauer (George Waite, banker), Ernest Howard (Charles Sibley, cashier), John Lehnberg

Location: Some scenes were filmed in Central Park, New York City

Notes: 1. This film was advertised as a drama, but in most printed trade schedules it was listed as a comedy. 2. A "M. Howard" is listed in the cast in Reel Life, August 21, 1915. It is presumed that Ernest Howard was intended. (Also see note under The Picture of Dorian Gray, July 20, 1915.)

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, August 21, 1915:

"George Waite, banker in a small town, steals the funds entrusted to him. He is abetted by Charles Sibley, the cashier, who bargains, in return for a share of the spoils, to flee to South America, thus accepting the blame of the theft. The only person who suspects the banker himself of complicity is Henry Spear, editor of the local paper. He attacks Waite in his columns. Waite sends to him an emissary with false expressions of sympathy. Spear has no notion that this man comes from the banker. He accepts from him some money and gives in return a promissory note, which really empowers the banker to seize Spear's establishment and business at any time he may desire. Rosalie Spear goes to New York to visit her Aunt Marie. Meanwhile, Waite receives a letter from Sibley, telling him that his accomplice is in New York, and that unless the banker meets him there the following day, he will confess to the police. Rosalie and her little cousin Dicky walk in the park and take snapshots. They exchange cameras by accident with a young Westerner, Mansfield Hite. When the films are developed, Hite goes in search of the girl whose picture her little cousin had taken. He finds Rosalie. Another snapshot in the camera, taken by Dicky, shows the banker giving his accomplice hush money in the park. This is sufficient evidence to save the editor, and bring the guilty bank robbers to justice."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, August 28, 1915:

"A very pleasing two-reel number in spite of some unevenness of photography. The events of the second reel in particular are brightly pictured and the situations contain considerable originality. In the first reel the bank president is shown looting the bank and casting the blame on the cashier, who has presumably gone to South America. Later a small boy accidentally photographs a pair in Central Park near Cleopatra's Needle. The love story is ingeniously handled. In spite of some minor faults this is better than the average production and leaves a pleasant feeling with the observer."

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