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1908 Van Dyke Brooke
Original Title :
Buried Alive
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy
Year :
1908
Directror :
Van Dyke Brooke
Type :
Movie
Rating :
6.6/10

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Three jokers appear on the beach, cut up a few capers, then two of them bury their companion under the sand, making a nice mound above him. The two young men take a position a few yards ... See full summary

Buried Alive (1908) Online

Three jokers appear on the beach, cut up a few capers, then two of them bury their companion under the sand, making a nice mound above him. The two young men take a position a few yards away to watch the fun. A young couple some along and put their baby on the mound. The trickster heaves his stomach up and down, lifting the baby off. The parents get frightened, pick up the little one and run away. The three laugh over their joke, again cover the young man up, and pack fresh sand over him. A couple comes along, spies the mound, puts up a big parasol, sits down and begins to kiss and hug each other. The buried joker slowly raises up and stares at them. The couple gets scared and scampers away. Again the man is covered up as an Italian fruit vendor appears, and while endeavoring to sell fruit to Nos. 1 and 2, No. 3 is very busy stealing it. After the departure of the fruit man a fussy old maid appears and sits down to read her book. The joker raises his feet and pushes her forward on her...


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Dalallador

Upon first arriving in theatres, much bally-hoo was made about this film's title. Though it sounds far too gruesome for viewing by decent people, the burial in the film's title is in fact one of a playful nature; children at the shoreline use bucket and spade to cover their father with a mound of sand. One could have inferred this from the re-placement title "Frolics on the Beach at Coney Island", so I feel as if I am not ruining a surprise for the reader-ship.

The film itself is a mockery of the very art-form! For threescore and ten minutes, the view-providers in the theatre are subjected to the camera's un-flinching gaze as the moppets mentioned above pour end-less spade-fuls of sand upon their target. The father figure barely moves through-out the entire ordeal! His role could have been filled by a man-sized rock! His very relation to the whelps is betrayed only by his beach-hat labelled "FATH R" {sic}.

With no dialogue or plot, this picture's only facet of re-demption is that it may be used to clear out a theatre when conventional methods have been ex-hausted.