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Mesmerizing Moe
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Yankee Film Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released [?] 8 or 11? September 1911; in a split-reel with Faded Roses (1911). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Two jovial sportsmen, after a successful day of fishing, come upon old Uncle Moe, tight asleep with a fishing pole in hand. They decide upon having some fun with the old negro, removes his line from the water and attaching a large fifteen pound fish to his hook, they throw it into the pond. Uncle Moe is awakened by the jerk and is surprised when he pulls out a large fish. Chuckling with delight at his apparent success he goes to another part of the stream. As he leaves the spot the two jokers appear and detaching the big fish from the line, replace it with a very small one. When Uncle Moe returns with a very small fish he had caught at the other part of the stream and goes to put it on his line, imagine his surprise when he draws forth a small fish in place of the large one he had left there. Uncle Moe begins to imagine he is seeing things, and decides to change his location again. Taking the two small fish, he ties them together, examines them critically and drops them into the water, after having secured the end of the string to a rock. When he returns the jokers had already been at work and when he draws up the string he finds two fifteen pounders in place of the two little ones he had left there. Uncle Moe decides not to take any further chances, and shouldering the fish he hobbles toward his hut in the hills. This is more than the jokers bargained for and in order to obtain their own fish they are compelled to buy them.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: African-Americans - Fish - Fishermen - Fishing poles
Listing updated: 28 October 2022.
References: Tarbox-Lost pp. 50, 279 : Website-IMDb.
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