The Sunbeam
About The Sunbeam
In a tenement, a confirmed bachelor lives across the hall from a sour spinster. Children in the corridor play tricks on both of them. A little girl from the floor above, left on her own, pulls the two adults together.
Cast & crew
More about The Sunbeam
D. W. Griffith directed. Billy Bitzer photographed it. Biograph released it in 1912. Wikidata gives the length as 17 minutes. Ynez Seabury, Kate Bruce, Claire McDowell, Dell Henderson, Charles Hill Mailes, and Priscilla Dean are billed.
Themes
Making
Griffith staged the short in a tenement corridor set, with the children's pranks as the business between the two closed doors.
Look
Billy Bitzer photographed the corridor, the two rooms, and the child from upstairs.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The pranks happen in the hallway between the two rooms.
- The girl lives on the floor above and is described as now alone.
- Kate Bruce and Claire McDowell are the adults most often associated with the bachelor-and-spinster pair, though the synopsis does not assign the roles.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive under TheSunbeam.
- Biograph was still releasing this kind of one-reel domestic story in 1912.
Scenes
- Children play tricks in the hall on the bachelor and the spinster.
- The girl from upstairs draws the two of them out of their rooms.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheSunbeam)
