Eradicating Aunty
About Eradicating Aunty
Tom Norton writes his wife's aunt, Matilda Scroggins, and invites her to their villa. She arrives with the Reverend Joshua Whittington, who married them, and the pair object to the couple's kissing and take over the house. A comedian friend, Bill Corker, puts on fire-eating cowboy makeup and chases aunt and minister out of the house, down the road, and onto a moving train.
Cast & crew
More about Eradicating Aunty
D. W. Griffith directed the Biograph comedy. G. W. Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed it. Exteriors were shot in Fort Lee and interiors at the Biograph studio in New York. AFI dates the release June 3, 1909. It shared a split reel with His Duty. The negative is 545 feet.
Themes
Making
Biograph shot the rooms in its New York studio and the chase to the station outdoors in Fort Lee.
Look
G. W. Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed the Fort Lee exteriors and the New York interiors.
Music
Silent.
Notes
- Florence Auer plays Aunt Matilda Scroggins. Florence Lawrence plays Flora Norton. Owen Moore plays Tom Norton.
- Arthur V. Johnson plays the Reverend Joshua Whittington. Herbert Prior plays Bill Corker.
- A Biograph ad in Moving Picture World of May 29, 1909, called it a comedy about getting rid of aunty and the minister with help from a theatrical friend.
- It went out on a split reel with the drama His Duty.
Scenes
- Bill Corker, dressed as a fire-eating cowboy, drives aunt and minister onto a moving train.
