Harry Watson

A vaudeville style comedy/musical short about a couple that gets engaged and their fighting families.

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Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

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Ambitious press agent Jack Murray introduces two of his clients, Follies dancer Mabel Vandegrift and prize fighter Joe Cain, to each other and they fall in love. After Brock Morton, the owner of the show, says that he will bring down the curtain on the show in the middle of opening night unless Mabel renounces Joe, the latter goes on the stage and announces that, in spite of his prior refusal, that he will fight the English boxing champion. With the money he gets from boxing promoter Tex Rickard, he buys out Morton and the show goes on. Prior to the fight, Morton dopes Joe, but he is brought around so that he is able to fight and eventually wins the match. Joe's father comes east and then brings Joe and Mabel back west with him. A lost film.

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An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

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Musty Suffer, finding a meal ticket, resolves to take a vacation while eating is free. The café owner, however, discovers Musty’s face does not compare with the photograph on the ticket. Musty goes out to have it altered, thinking less of the face than he does of the meal ticket. He is completely recast in a steel foundry and returns to enjoy the free meals only to find that the restaurant has closed.

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Musty applies for a job as office boy, but is turned down because he is too old. He visits a doctor to get some elixir of youth, but drinks too much and is reduced to a sprightly two-year-old.

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Musty suffers from sleeplessness and consults a quack doctor, who administers "Starlight Sleep."

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Musty Suffer gets married.

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Musty becomes a carpenter's assistant. He decides that a twin brother would be a great help to him in his work, so he makes one out of wood. Thrown out of the shop, Musty and the dummy break into a girls' tea party with startling results. Of course, in the end, our hero gets very much the worst of it.

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The Ladder of Fame is a 1917 comedy short

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Truly Rural is a silent 1917 comedy short.

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Wet and Dry is a silent film comedy.

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The Soda Jerker is a silent comedy short.

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Musty Suffer has a job as a waiter, though he lacks considerable in efficiency. Finding that he gets into trouble with every order he serves, he joins the entertainers and sings a solo. This serves to empty the place as he hoped and gives his a rest. However, another patron comes in and Musty serves him. The customer is irritated with his order and calls for the manager. Musty goes to the kitchen, changes his make-up and poses as the official.

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Musty Suffer at sea.

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Musty holds down a job in Mole and Kittleton's dime museum. Musty seems to be the sole employee about the place, and whatever is called for by any of the patrons, he has to supply it. He is placed in charge of the cane rack, and of course, cheats so that the customers get no canes. One irascible old fellow complains to the manager, who upbraids Musty for his dishonesty. As soon as the customer leaves the manager congratulates himself on having so business-like an employee.

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Series 2, episode 8 of 'The Mishaps of Musty Suffer' series of one-reel comedies, where Harry Watson gets a make-over.

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Shot during the motion picture exposition in Chicago in July 1916, this short shows off Musty Suffer as he is given the key to the city.

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Musty Suffer gets a job as a chef and waiter at an automat restaurant. Various customers attempt to filch food or money from the coin slots, and Musty deals with the situation.

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Musty Suffer hunts wild horses in the bad lands of New Jersey. He captures a fine specimen and sells it, but it breaks away to join the fascinating Musty. The fairy tramp grants Musty's wish for a suit and cab, and goes into business.

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Musty goes for a day's fishing, but bites are scarce and he whiles away the time reading an exciting story entitled "The Bold, Bad Pirate." He goes to sleep sitting on the edge of a bridge and dreams of hidden treasure and dark deeds on the Spanish Main.

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Musty Suffer visits a "painless dentist"

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Musty Suffer gets a job as a maid. Then he gets a job as a butler, in the same household. Then he gets a job as a gardener. This becomes complicated.

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Musty, messenger boy, is assigned to deliver a cook stove to a certain address. In spite of the fact that there is no one home and the house locked up, Musty takes the stove in through the window.

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Musty Suffer finds a bicycle and gets a job as a messenger; hilarity ensues, of course.

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Musty holds down a job as general factotum at the Busy Bee Amusement Arcade, one of his chief duties being that of taking tickets at the entrance to the moving stairway which leads to the cinema theater on the second floor.

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Musty is standing around in a state of confusion, so his fairy godfather appears to find him a job as a general factotum at an amusement gallery. Musty serves as a bootblack, a ticket-taker, a target at the shooting gallery and a rope to block off a non-working escalator.

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Musty Suffer dreams of being subjected to psychological experiments by unethical doctors.

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Musty Suffer as a bell-boy.

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Musty Suffer gets a job as a bell hop at a cheap little hotel, the Outside Inn.

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Musty and his friend, Willie Work, after a comfortable night's rest in a convenient henhouse, set out in search of adventure. They select a mansion with the intention of burglary, but are frightened away by a militant sawbuck. They are summoned by Mme. Cayenne, a jealously guarded wife, who promises them a fine lunch if they will mail a letter to her lover. They agree and the lunch is served. Just as they begin to eat, Senor Cayenne returns. Musty dives out of the second-floor window and hangs from the sill. Willie, who fails to escape, is introduced to Senor as Madame's brother from Kokomo, and royally entertained.

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Musty Suffer is invited to stay in a mansion; hilarity ensues.

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Musty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.

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Musty Suffer as a golf caddy.

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Detective Ruby Swift is on the trail of crooked politicos McQuire and Olson and traces them to the small hamlet Hicktown. Once there she finds that they are attempting to steal the election of the mayor in order to “trim” the town. Ruby, as secretary to the politicians, causes both to fall in love with her, hoping their rivalry will part them and reveal the hidden ballot boxes. Jealous over Ruby, the politicians quarrel, and not even the suffragette Chief of Police can reconcile them. How Ruby takes advantage of the quarrel and brings them to justice is the climax of this five-reel comedy.

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Musty gets a job in a grocery store. Through a series of very bad encounters with various customers it becomes clear he is ill-suited to the job and ultimately he goes his own way.

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