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Policy and pie / motion picture

Policy and pie / motion picture

description

Summary

The Captain gets a life insurance policy and gives it to his wife. In gratitude she makes him a pie. The Katzenjammer Kids play a trick on the Captain and sneak toads into his pie so that he would think his wife is trying to poison him.
Title appears in some sources as Policy & pie.
Copyright: no reg.
Duration: 3:31 (part 1) and 3:29 (part 2) at 22 fps.
Summary from J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress.
Based on Rudolph Dirks' comics.
Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1912-1939; Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation, 1900-1921; McIntire, J. Silent animated films at the Library of Congress, 1995.

date_range

Date

01/01/1918
person

Contributors

La Cava, Gregory, 1892-1952, direction, animation.
International Film Service.
AFI/Souder (Thomas) Collection (Library of Congress)
place

Location

create

Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain

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