He resolves not to smoke / Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. ; by Wallace Carlson.

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He resolves not to smoke / Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. ; by Wallace Carlson.

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OTHER TITLES
Variant title in Library of Congress video collection: Dreamy Dud: "He resolves not to smoke"

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., [1915].

SUMMARY
Dreamy Dud steals a man's pipe because he is fascinated with smoking and blowing smoke rings. He smokes the pipe and the smoke turns into a ghost and carries him up to the moon and leaves him. Dud falls off the moon and down to earth. He wakes up on the floor of his room and resolves never to smoke.

NOTES
Copyright: Essanay Film Mfg. Co.; 22Jun15; MP356.

Copyrighted along with Scenic picture (not on LC's copy).

Duration: 5:03 at 24 fps.

Summary from J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress, 1995.

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; M/B/RS shelflist.

Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.

SUBJECTS
Boys--United States--Drama.
Smoking--United States--Drama.
Dreams--United States--Drama.
Tobacco pipes--United States--Drama.
Moon--Drama.
Ghosts--Drama.
Comedy--Animation--Short.

RELATED TITLES
Dreamy Dud

MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (ca. 483 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.

CALL NUMBER
FEA 9934 (ref print)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
animp 4067 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/animp.4067

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