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Winnie’s Acting Dummy

Reel Number: 221433-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1910s

Country: USA

Location: California,Los Angeles

TC Begins: 19:17:52

TC Ends: 19:22:23

Duration: 00:04:31

Winnie’s Acting Dummy MCU woman appearing to throw man out; pull back to see she’s practicing on a dummy. Man watches from other room, she carries dummy out door; he picks up newspaper w/ headline “Link Woman ...Murder Of...” He grabs hat. She walking past gardener to convertible w/ dummy over shoulder, throws it in & drives off. Man puts on coat runs out of room; outside to gardener sleeping on rake, knocks rake & man falls down. Whistles for cab & drives off. 19:18:41 Arrives at hotel & runs in; clerk stops him from going up stairs & throws him out knocking ladder out from under man working on awning. Man dangles until ladder put back. First man crawls back in & up stairs, slips & rolls down inside the rug. Again thrown out; this time across street & knocks man over in mud. Woman out of hotel, into car & drives off as man tries to stop her; again hails cab. 19:20:00 Woman arrives home & takes bag into house. Gardner scratches head, calls policeman. In house four “our gang” type kids sitting reading, she leaves & they get up to see what’s in bag. CU Red Ink. Cop into room. Man arrives in cab, runs into house. Cop bumps into woman. Man picks up bag, starts to leave & policeman w/ pistol points. Man w/ sack bumps into man at corner of building. Man w/ sack, now w/ manniquin leg dangling & red ink spills walks on leaving trail. Cop follows. Man hides behind fence, runs off when people notice. Into police station. 19:21:36 Man in street picks up mannequin leg on sidewalk. Woman out carrying bag. They watch man put leg under woman putting on make up by car. She turns around, leg falls to ground & she throws it away; returns to putting on make up, man goes over & grabs leg which proves to be real. They run off. Silent movies; Slapstick Comedy; Violence; Oddities; Gags; Romance; Mistaken Identity;

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