A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	John Troiano. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: John Troiano

American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and Kleine Optical Company. / Scenario by [?] Frank Marion and/or Wallace McCutcheon? Cinematography by A.E. Weed. / © 11 November 1904 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H52864]. Released November 1904. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The production was shot in Biograph’s 14th Street studio and in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on 21-22 October 1904. Biograph production number 2975. One of the first Biograph films to use intertitles.

Comedy.

Synopsis: A family moves to a house in the suburbs and encounters many trials.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive], and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Dogs - Children - Commuters - Neighborhoods - Parks - Transportation: Moving vans, Trains, Train stations - USA: New Jersey: Asbury Park

Listing updated: 7 October 2023.

References: Film viewing : Altman-Sound p. 20; Fell-History p. 39; Leyda-Before pp. 48, 49, 54-55, 58, 81, 119; Niver-Early p. 316; Niver-First pp. 80-81; Pratt-Spellbound p. ?; Robinson-Palace p. 125 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.