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  • Cheap Transportation (1914)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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Cheap Transportation (1914)
Short | Comedy, Short
Emil Schultz, stranded in a small hamlet, receives a telegram from a motion picture company in Florida, offering him a position providing he pays his own transportation, but Emil has not the necessary currency to buy a doughnut. Strolling ...See moreEmil Schultz, stranded in a small hamlet, receives a telegram from a motion picture company in Florida, offering him a position providing he pays his own transportation, but Emil has not the necessary currency to buy a doughnut. Strolling out into a field, where a farmer is dynamiting, Emil sits on a stump end gets blown high in the air. Landing in the water, he is picked up by a dredge mud bucket and dumped on a scow. The foreman of the dredge discovers Emil and kicks him back into the river. He is then picked up by the anchor of a big ship bound for Florida. The mate finds him and puts him to work scrubbing the deck. But at this his artistic nature revolts. Sneaking down into the hold of the ship, he breaks open a box and crawls in. The ship carpenter nails up the box and Emil is closed inside. The ship arrives at Jacksonville, the box, with Emil still inside, is dumped on the wharf. The following day an expressman carts it away and proceeds to rush it to its destination. He is pursued by a bicycle cop, but refuses to stop. Emil, inside the box, receives the benefit of the bullets from the pursuing cop's revolver. The driver eludes the cop, but in so doing drops the box on a railroad track and drives on, not noticing the loss. A fast freight comes along, hits the box and sends it hurtling in the air; it splinters to pieces and Emil falls out in front of a racing automobile, but is picked up by the bumpers and carried off at a mile a minute. He is then rushed off and falls under the car. After being dragged for a mile, the car is stopped and he is pulled under the rear and kicked off, but he is happy when he finds he is in front of the picture studio. Dashing inside, he runs up to the director, shows his telegram, only to learn the position has just been filled. Emil faints and is picked up and dumped into the river. Undaunted, he starts swimming back to New York. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Nov 17, 1914
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Nov 17, 1914 (United States)

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