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Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:38 pm
by Curt A
Silent film about a couple trying to buy a gramophone and keep within their budget...
https://archive.org/details/5842_141111 ... ns_for_Two
Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:05 pm
by Wolfe
Cute picture, if a little bit rambling, even for a one reeler.
Elinor Field (who played the wife in the picture) lived until 1998.
Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:58 am
by Lucius1958
Interesting: at least one machine looks like an Edison A/B-150... but those would have been a bit outdated by 1917/18, when I presume the film was made...
Bill
Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:56 am
by fran604g
Lucius1958 wrote:Interesting: at least one machine looks like an Edison A/B-150... but those would have been a bit outdated by 1917/18, when I presume the film was made...
Bill
Definitely an A/B 150. It's appears to have been played using a Kent type of lateral adapter, too.
Best,
Fran
Re: Beans For Two... Saving for a gramophone
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:10 pm
by Lenoirstreetguy
Very cute film indeed and I'm glad Curt A posted the link! But I think it's missing the very last bit: she says " I know what!" about the phonographs and then we never see how they managed to dispose of one of the machines .
But I love pre-1920 silents, and more seem to surfacing all the time.
Jim