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Philip Parmalee (left), Mabel Normand and Fred Mace.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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Dash Through
the Clouds
Also known as {A Dash Through the Clouds}
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 742 feet
Directed by Mack Sennett
Cast: Mabel Normand [?] [Josephine or Martha]?, Fred Mace [?] [Chubby or Arthur?, her suitor], Philip Parmalee [Slim, the aviator], Sylvia Ashton [Carmelita, Chubby’s Mexican flirtation], Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon) [Carmelita’s outraged Mexican boyfriend], Jack Pickford [the Mexican boy], Kate Bruce [the old Mexican woman], William J. Butler [the outraged Mexican who shoots through the door], Charles Gorman, Grace Henderson, Harry Hyde, J. Jiquel Lanoe, Alfred Paget
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Dell Henderson. Cinematography by Percy Higginson. / © 28 June 1912 by Biograph Company. Released 24 June 1912; in a split-reel with The New Baby (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in Culver City, California. Parmalee was one of the first aviators trained by Wilbur Wright.
Comedy.
Synopsis: Josephine is being courted by Chubby, a chewing-gum salesman, but she is more interested in airplane pilot Slim. Against the objections of Chubby, Josephine and Slim take a test flight together. The next day, Chubby is making his rounds and meets Carmelita. Her own suitor and her family is upset over the courtship. Chubby sends Josephine a note carried by a Mexican boy, and flees. Meanwhile, Josephine and Slim fly to the rescue. Now saved from harm, Chubby must watch Josephine fly away with Slim.
Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [16mm reduction positive]; in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive]; in the private film collection of Richard M. Roberts; and in the private film collection of Robert Arkus.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Animals: Horses - Aviation: Flying - Cactus - Chases - Mexican-Americans - Notes - Rescues - Street scenes - Transportation: Airplanes: Pilots - USA: California: Culver City - Weapons: Guns
Listing updated: 17 August 2014.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Fussell-Normand p. 246; Kerr-Silent p. 65; Niver-First pp. 161-163; Spehr-American pp. 1, 444 : Website-GEM; Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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