A Midwinter Night's Dream
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Bobby Burns [the tramp in the freight car], Walter Stull [the tramp in the orange grove], Helen Martin (Helen Marten)
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 19 February 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A tramp is asleep on the end of a freight car on a railroad siding. He awakes, snow covers the ground. He makes a snowball and throws it. It strikes another tramp asleep in an orange grove. The tramp awakes. The other tramp leaves the snow, walks over to the orange grove. It is too hot so he walks back to the snow with the other tramp. Two girls appear in the orange grove. The tramps take the girls over in the snow. The girls are cold and run back. The tramps write a note asking the girls to meet them at a certain place, and placing it in a snowball, throw it to the girls. The girls receive the note and agree to meet the tramps. While the hobos are walking down the street they see an actor taking clothes from his trunk in front of a theater. He gives each of them a costume and they dress up and meet the girls. They discover a big wad of stage money in the pocket of the coat and proceed to spend it with a lavish hand. They have a great time until the money is discovered to be stage money, when they are chased by a large crowd until one of the tramps falls down. A policeman is fanning his foot with a club, when he wakes up on the freight car and is ordered away by the policeman.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 January 2025.
References: Ball-Shakespeare pp. 149, 340, 388; Lahue-World p. 33 : Website-IMDb.
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