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  • Sonny Jim at the Mardi Gras (1915)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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Sonny Jim at the Mardi Gras (1915)
Short | Comedy, Short
The fun starts when Sonny Jim hears his father reading of the thousands of children expected to enjoy the Coney Island's Mardi Gras parade on Saturday afternoon. He finds out from Mother Dear what a Mardi Gras is, and secretly determines ...See moreThe fun starts when Sonny Jim hears his father reading of the thousands of children expected to enjoy the Coney Island's Mardi Gras parade on Saturday afternoon. He finds out from Mother Dear what a Mardi Gras is, and secretly determines to go, anyhow, when she tells him she has a Mother's Meeting that afternoon. Sonny "breaks the toy bank," and with Lily, his little colored friend, starts for the big amusement park. There we watch them getting a splendid bird's eye view of the island, the new free municipal baths, the long stretch of crowded ocean beach, certainly the most popular beach in the United States, and the Mardi Gras parade, the biggest feature of the carnival. First come the past presidents of the Mardi Gras Association, well known businessmen, then the following beautiful floats: ''Army and Navy," "Peace," "Coney Island Life Guards," "Fairyland," "The States of Our Union," "The Landing of Columbus," "The Pilgrim Fathers," "The Boston Tea Party," "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and many others. After the parade, the wanderers enter Luna Park, and Sonny, after the exhaustion of his bank roll, finds all he has to do to get into any of the amusement is to say, "I'm Sonny Jim of the Vitagraph Company," and be is invariably escorted inside free of charge. At Steeplechase Park, another huge amusement place, his name also proves an open sesame, but Daddy and Mother Dear, nearly frantic, locate their lost son just as he and Lily are about to take a wild ride on the iron horses at Steeplechase. They march the pair home in a hurry, and Lily gets a spanking from her Mammy. Sonny Jim's father, however, has not the heart to chastise him when he promises to take him and Mother Dear along the next time he goes to the Mardi Gras. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Tefft Johnson
Writers
Elaine S. Carrington (story) (as Elaine Sterne) | Tefft Johnson (scenario)
Producer
Tefft Johnson
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Updated May 16, 1915
Release date
Jun 3, 1915 (United States)

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Bobby Connelly
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