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The Lost Collar Button; or, A Strenuous Search
(1906) United States of America
B&W : 430 feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / © 19 March 1906 by The Vitagraph Company of America [H74652]. Released March 1906. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From Charles Urban promotional materials] A young man dressing hurriedly for an appointment with his young lady, loses his collar button, and his vain efforts to recover it are shown during which he pulls his apartments to pieces as he searches under furniture and carpets, etc., assisted by his landlady. As the delay increases his best girl calls him up on the phone, and her remarks, reproduced on the film, are exceedingly amusing. Rushing madly from the house, fully dressed minus the stud, he encounters on the steps a tradesman’s messenger, round the street corner a photographer, a vendor of clay images and others, all of whom he brings to grief in his headlong flight. Pouncing on an itinerant vendor of studs he wrecks his display in helping himself. Still running he makes wild efforts to fasten the intractable collar with the new button, but only arrives at the lady’s house, in time to see her depart on the arm of his rival.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 December 2023.
References: Slide-BigV p. 173 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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