Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company, Ltd.
About Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company, Ltd.
Sonny Jim brings a bullfrog to Sunday school. It jumps into the teacher's lap, and she bars him from the school picnic. He answers by forming the Amusement Company, Limited, and talking the other boys into skipping the picnic for a ten-act circus in his father's barn. The show includes cowboys and Indians. Buffalo Bill arrives on a donkey. They charge a penny to get in.
Cast & crew
More about Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company, Ltd.
Tefft Johnson directed this Sonny Jim short. Elaine S. Carrington wrote the story. Bobby Connelly plays Sonny Jim. Edwina Robbins plays the Sunday-school teacher. Also in the cast are Tefft Johnson, Mabel Kelly, and George Stevens. Vitagraph released it in the United States on 13 September 1915. An alternate title is Buffalo Jim. A listed running time is 13 minutes.
Themes
Making
Johnson set the punishment and the revenge in two places the series already used: a Sunday school and the family barn. The Buffalo Bill entrance is a boy on a donkey, not a hired wild-west troupe.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print is held by the EYE Filmmuseum.
Notes
- The teacher finds the frog in his pocket before it lands in her lap.
- The circus is held in Daddy's barn, not at the picnic grounds.
- Admission is one penny.
- EYE Filmmuseum holds a print, catalogued FLM9507.
- Connelly was the same child who played Sonny Jim in An Easter Lily the year before.
Scenes
- The bullfrog jumps from Sonny Jim's pocket into the teacher's lap.
- Buffalo Bill makes his entrance at the barn circus riding a donkey.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company Ltd, EYE FLM9507)
- EYE Filmmuseum
