Rivals
About Rivals
Chollie and George both want the same young woman. They cheat and sabotage each other to get her. The short is drawn from T. E. Powers’s comic strip “Chollie and George.”
Cast & crew
More about Rivals
Edwin S. Porter is the credited director. A listed running time is 13 minutes. IMDb dates a release to 7 September 1907. William West is in the cast, with Madge West, Richard Thompson, Mr. Shelley, Mrs. William West, and Jinnie Frazer.
Themes
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives and was included in Edison: The Invention of the Movies (2005).
Notes
- The strip characters’ names, Chollie and George, are the rivals.
- Powers’s newspaper comic is the source named on the film’s trivia record.
- The short appears in the 2005 compilation Edison: The Invention of the Movies.
- An Internet Archive copy is filed as silent-the-rivals.
Influenced by
- Chollie and George (T. E. Powers)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-rivals)
- Edison: The Invention of the Movies (Kino, 2005)
