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Pimple’s Art of Mystery
Also known as Flivver’s Art of Mystery in the USA
(1915) England
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Fred Evans [Pimple]
[?] Piccadilly Film Productions? production; distributed by [?] Browne? / Released June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, on 7 January 1916.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Having nothing better to do one day, Flivver decides to visit a theater nearby and chances to see a very clever conjuring turn. He is greatly attracted by it and later on, receiving an invitation to spend the evening with his grandparents in order to celebrate their golden wedding, he decides to go to the conjurer and ask him to teach him his tricks. He is received very kindly by the professional, who advises him to buy his 5-cent book explaining every trick most minutely. Very much pleased, Flivver sets himself to work and on the night of the party he arrives at his grandfather’s house carrying a bag containing all the necessary paraphernalia. His relations are delighted when he tells them that he intends entertaining them all with some clever conjuring tricks. Alas, their joy is short-lived. Notwithstanding his careful attention to all the details given in the conjuring book, Flivver is met with failure and disaster with every experiment. In his attempts to copy the conjurer he only succeeds in injuring nearly every member of the party. He mashes his aged grandfather over the head, throws his fragile grandmother mercilessly upon the floor, puts a hat containing six or seven broken eggs on the head of his cousin, and throws a bucketful of water over his charming young sister. When the party have recovered sufficiently from their shock they take him by the heels and hurl him out of the front door. We see him sitting disconsolately on the pavement trying to collect his thoughts, and from the expression on his face one would imagine that the conjurer who sold him the book of tricks will have an unpleasant half hour next time he chances to come across Flivver’s path.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 November 2022.
References: Website-IMDb.
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