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  • Fooling Father (1912)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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Fooling Father (1912)
Short | Short, Comedy
Si Baker, the young farmer, is in love with Betty Collins. Old Collins, a farmer, of Beck Corners, has other plans for his daughter. A city friend of Collins has written him that he is sending his son Harold for a visit on his farm. This ...See moreSi Baker, the young farmer, is in love with Betty Collins. Old Collins, a farmer, of Beck Corners, has other plans for his daughter. A city friend of Collins has written him that he is sending his son Harold for a visit on his farm. This pleases Collins, who has hopes of getting Harold for a son-in-law. Mrs. Collins disapproves of trying to make the daughter marry a man she does not love. The mother favors Si Baker. Harold arrives at the farm, and in order to get him out of the way one evening (Si and Betty, to have a few moments to themselves), Si invites Harold to go with him on a coon hunt. Si puts a cat up in the top of a tree, then gets Harold to watch it (telling him it is a coon), while he runs to get some cartridges for the gun. While Harold is watching the tree, Si and Betty are spooning. Si bids Betty good-night, and goes home. Harold in the meantime has fallen asleep, and does not wake up until morning, when the cat jumps from the tree. Harold finds that he has been the butt-end of a joke. He finds a chance to get even, when he overhears Si and Betty planning an elopement and he at once informs the old man of their plans. While Harold is telling the old man of the elopement, he is overheard by young Collins, who immediately informs Si and Betty that the old man is on to their scheme. The affair is now laid before mother, who plans to outwit dad. Two dummies are made and dressed to represent Si and Betty. They are placed in a buggy and started down the road. Pa and Harold have been watching and seeing the rig going down the road, lose no time in mounting horses to start after the elopers. While Pa and Harold are chasing the dummies, Ma takes Si and Betty to the minister to be married. Father does not know he has been chasing dummies until the horse walks into the water. Father and Harold rush in the water, pull the dummies from their seats and after a good wetting they find their mistake. On arriving at the house father is surprised to find mother, Betty and his new son-in-law waiting for them. There is nothing left for father to do but to take the joke good naturedly, which he does after a while, and everybody is happy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Apr 6, 1912
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Apr 6, 1912 (United States)

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