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Jimmy Minds the Baby
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released 13 April 1911; in a split-reel with The Bungalow Craze (1911). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? One afternoon father and mother confided the baby to Jimmy’s care and set off for the matinee, with explicit instructions that their first born guard the baby with his life. The push cart rolled along, propelled by Jimmy, to the stage door of the very theater where mother and father were watching the show. The second act was in progress. The property man was having a slight altercation with the stage manager regarding a rag child which the heroine must perforce carry on the stage and suffer in a snowstorm made of paper. Jimmy, loitering near the stage door, was easy prey for the property man, who gave him twenty-five cents and a position in the wings to watch the show. Heroine enters with child, villain enters from opposite side of stage. Heroine exclaims, “My husband!” He scorns her; she pleads; he is heartless. The wife then presents the baby and says, “For the sake of our child.” The cruel husband takes the child, throws it in a snowdrift and leaves wife to her fate. Just about this time father and mother recognize their youngest born, leap on the stage and save him from the paper snow. Father sees Jimmy in the entrance. Father exits. Jimmy is placed across father’s knee in the traditional way, and warmed up, just because father is bigger than Jimmy.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 30 December 2024.
References: Lyons-American p. 218 : Website-IMDb.
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