Cartoons in a Seminary
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About Cartoons in a Seminary
At Miss Syntax's seminary, Laura tells the girls that her sweetheart Jim is coming that afternoon. Jim climbs the playground fence and shows them a Grouch Chaser. They laugh through "Silas Bunkum's Boarders' Picnic," in which a spider steals a wig, a bird lays an egg in it, and a Limburger cheese drives off the picnickers. Miss Syntax finds the book and chuckles over "Kid Kelly Crusoe," a dream of Robinson Crusoe. Jim hides in a rain barrel, sneezes, and is caught. As punishment he must stand wet while they watch "Mr. Hicks in Nightmareland," in which a hidden cigar sets a man's pocket on fire. Miss Syntax gives the book back and tells Jim not to come onto the grounds again.
Cast & crew
More about Cartoons in a Seminary
Raoul Barré directed and wrote the scenario for the Animated Grouch Chasers series. Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated produced the one-reel short. The General Film Company released it on 22 September 1915. It mixes live action with animated cartoons. Caroline Rankin plays Miss Syntax, Gladys Leslie plays Laura, and Yale Boss plays Jim. Gregory La Cava and Frank Moser are credited as animators.
Themes
Making
Barré staged the schoolyard in live action and cut in three drawn episodes from the book Jim smuggles over the fence. La Cava and Moser animated those inserts.
Music
Silent.
Notes
- Moving Picture World printed the seminary plot, including the three cartoons inside the Grouch Chaser.
- In the picnic cartoon a snake crawls through the cheese and the title remarks, "This subway air is awful.
- Billy, reading Crusoe, dreams himself into a goatskin suit with a parrot instead of a dog.
- Mr. Hicks dreams he is in a heated region. Imps offer him smoking dynamite, and a small devil sets his trousers alight.
- He wakes to find the cigar in his pocket is burning. His wife hits him with a fire extinguisher and he jumps out the window.
- The Internet Animation Database places this short between Cartoons on the Beach and Cartoons in the Country.
Scenes
- A spider carries an old maid's wig into a tree, and a bird lays an egg in it.
- Jim jumps into a barrel of rain water when Miss Syntax comes out the door.
- Mrs. Hicks turns a fire extinguisher on her husband after his pocket catches fire.
Quotes
This subway air is awful.
