One Touch of Nature
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About One Touch of Nature
Mr. Bradley’s business has left him in a permanent bad temper. His car dies on a country road. He tells off the chauffeur and walks. A wasps’ nest takes part of the anger, with the usual result. He gets lost and finds a boy, Freckles, fishing. Bradley demands the road. Freckles tells him to stay off the bank or he will spoil the fishing. The meeting is what changes him. John Sturgeon is Bradley. Elizabeth Miller is his wife. Andrew J. Clark is Freckles.
Cast & crew
More about One Touch of Nature
Ashley Miller is the directing credit on the Edison record. Silent Era also floats Edward C. Taylor. Courtenay Ryley Cooper wrote the story. General Film released the one-reeler. A television listing times it at 16 minutes. T. Tamamoto is the butler. Allen Crolius is the chauffeur. Edna Hammel is billed as the maid. The Museum of Modern Art holds an Edison-collection print.
Themes
Making
The comedy sends a businessman into the woods because the car stops. Freckles will not move for him. That is the “touch of nature” the title promises.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
The Museum of Modern Art holds a print from the Edison collection. It is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The wasps are what he attacks after the chauffeur. They attack back.
- Freckles’s first order is about the fishing, not about Bradley’s mood.
- Cooper, later a circus writer, is the scenarist.
- The print at MoMA is from the Edison collection.
Scenes
- He abandons the broken car and walks into a wasps’ nest.
- Freckles, fishing, orders him off the bank.
Also available
- Museum of Modern Art
