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  • Jack of All Trades (I) (1908)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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Jack of All Trades (I) (1908)
Short | Short, Comedy
We open showing him securing a situation as a coachman, and after trying for several minutes to attach the horse with the head toward the carriage, he is readily bounced by the employer. The next scene is getting a job as an expressman, ...See moreWe open showing him securing a situation as a coachman, and after trying for several minutes to attach the horse with the head toward the carriage, he is readily bounced by the employer. The next scene is getting a job as an expressman, and after dropping a trunk two flights of steps, and through a ceiling and through a dining-room table, he is roughly evicted from the house; but this does not discourage him. He next tries his hand as a barber, which job he doesn't keep longer than it takes to throw him out. He next tries painting, and after painting everything in sight, from the bureau to a man dressing for an evening supper, he is again given his walking papers; and not yet discouraged, but next enters the employ of a paper hanger, and the way he tries to hang paper on a wall would make even the most gloomy scream with laughter; but the lady of the house does not scream. She boils with anger, and, grabbing poor Jack, she shows him the quickest way to the front door and unfortunately throws him on a butcher who is talking to the servant girl in front. Quickly picking himself up he spots an "ad" in the paper for an electrician. Though he has never turned his hand to this trade, he believes that it is simple enough for him to take a chance, not knowing that sometimes electricity gives shocks. He enters the office of a merchant to repair his phone, and happens to grab hold of a live wire; he makes everything lively around for a few minutes; the man of the office comes in and seeing such commotion being raised grabs hold of Jack, but unfortunately he also receives a shock and the two dance around for quite a while until they are parted from the live wires and Jack is again thrown out to hunt for another situation. This he quickly does and lands a job as a baker, and he happens to know as much about baking as a cat does about Sunday. The proprietor of the baker shop finds this out when he catches Jack kneading dough all over the floor. Again he is rudely thrown out of work. Bracing himself up for a last ordeal, he finds himself this time a plumber, another trade he knows nothing about. He is sent on a job to repair a leaking water pipe, and when it is finished it would take a dozen plumbers two weeks to get it back in order. The picture closes with the "Jack of All Trades" holding an umbrella over himself to keep off the flow of water which he has caused by his inexperience to come from the pipes. Written by Essanay advertisement See less
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Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
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Updated Jan 11, 1908
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Jan 11, 1908 (United States)

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