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The Sunbeam
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Ynez Seabury [Little Sunbeam], Kate Bruce [Sunbeam’s mother], Claire McDowell [the spinster], Dell Henderson [the bachelor], Adolph Lestina [the first health inspector], Joseph McDermott [the first policeman], Charles Hill Mailes [the janitor], Marie Newton [one of the children in the tenement hallway], Mabel Taliaferro, Priscilla Dean [a woman in the tenement hallway], John T. Dillon [a policeman], Gladys Egan [one of the children in the tenement hallway], Edna Foster [the child with a cap in the tenement hallway], W. Chrystie Miller [the old man in the tenement hallway]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by George Hennessy. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 26 February 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? In a tenement boarding-house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing that the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him, followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet-fever-quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor’s door. The police, unaware that the sign is a prank, enforce the confinement. But aided by the sweet disposition of the toddler quarantined with them, the icy relations between spinster and bachelor begin to thaw, . . .
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 17 December 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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