Cupid’s Pranks
About Cupid’s Pranks
Cupid is scolded for sleeping on the job and sent out to match lovers. Over a city he finds a ball and picks a couple. He gets them to meet. Other obstacles are still in the way.
Cast & crew
More about Cupid’s Pranks
J. Searle Dawley directed this one-reel Edison comedy. Edwin S. Porter photographed it. It was shot on 5, 7, 9, and 10 February 1908, copyrighted on 19 February (H106508 through H106514), and released on 29 February 1908. The negative is 935 feet.
Themes
Making
Porter was the cameraman, not the director. Dawley staged the ball and the flying figure of Cupid.
Look
Edwin S. Porter photographed the reel, including the ballroom where Griffith stands in as an extra.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
An incomplete 35mm nitrate negative is at the Museum of Modern Art. The film is public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Violette Hill plays Cupid. Miss Murray and Mr. Barry are the couple.
- D. W. Griffith, then billed as Lawrence Griffith, is an extra at the ball.
- The Museum of Modern Art holds an incomplete 35mm nitrate negative.
- It is in the public domain in the United States.
- Silent Era notes a DVD edition without naming the label.
Scenes
- Cupid looks down on the ball and picks the pair he will push together.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-cupids-pranks)
