Thomas Hunter, an aged inventor, who has been laboring many years on an automatic elevator for the quick and laborsaving manipulation of coal, is seen in his workshop just putting the ... See full summary
The Inventor's Model (1910) Online
Thomas Hunter, an aged inventor, who has been laboring many years on an automatic elevator for the quick and laborsaving manipulation of coal, is seen in his workshop just putting the finishing touches to his model. To his great delight he finds that the invention is a success and that at last he has realized his life's ambition. Smiling Fortune has come to him at last. Hunter is enthusiastic about an early disposition of his patent and calls upon H.B. Clifford & Co., promoters of inventions. Clifford is a scoundrel, one of the many wily vampires who prey on the brains and labor of the absorbed man of genius. Hunter is not informed on the technicalities of copyright and patent protection, and after the shrewd eye of the promoter has mentally noted the great possibilities of Hunter's invention, he accepts a cheek from Clifford for "$10,000 on account" and is advised to leave the model with the promoter, who will endeavor to give it more careful consideration. Some few days later Hunter...
Released as a split reel along with the comedy Method in His Madness (1910).