The Totville Eye
About The Totville Eye
The Totville Eye is a four-page village paper. The edition is ready for the press when the crusty editor (Robert Brower) is called away. The printer (Walter Edwin) and the boy (Yale Boss) drop the front-page form and pie the type across the floor. The paper still has to come out, so the printer sends the boy for news and sets out to make this issue "right" for once.
Cast & crew
More about The Totville Eye
C. J. Williams directed Bannister Merwin's script for Edison. Moving Picture World of December 14, 1912 said the company seemed to have printed an edition of the paper for the picture. IMDb dates the release November 27, 1912, at 14 minutes, and the copyright is LP 113, claimed by Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Themes
Reviews
The Moving Picture World (December 14, 1912) called Bannister Merwin's story amusing and said it pleased a large audience, while granting that it was not strongly convincing as real life.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive. The Library of Congress holds the 1912 copyright description.
Notes
- Bliss Milford plays the widow. Alice Washburn has a smaller part.
- The catalog cast also includes Edward O'Connor, Bigelow Cooper, and Harry Beaumont.
- Moving Picture World said the story pleased a large audience even though it was not strongly convincing as real life.
- A Library of Congress copyright description for the 1912 title is filed under the Motion Picture Copyright Descriptions, Class L.
Scenes
- The printer and the boy drop the front-page form and scatter the type.
- With the editor gone, they send out for news and try to put the paper right.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-totville-eye)
