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The Tourists
Also known as {The Tourist}
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Mack Sennett

Cast: Mabel Normand [Trixie, a tourist], Charles West [Trixie’s boyfriend], William J. Butler [the second tourist couple], Grace Henderson [the second tourist couple], Frank Evans [the big chief], Kate Toncray [the big chief’s wife], Harry Hyde [a man on the train platform], Alfred Paget [a man on the train platform], [?] Edward Dillon?, [?] Tony O’Sullivan (Anthony O’Sullivan)?, [?] Mack Sennett?

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by [?] Mack Sennett? Cinematography by Percy Higginson. / © 7 August 1912 by Biograph Company. Released 5 August 1912; in a split-reel with What the Doctor Ordered (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The production was shot on-location in San Antonio, Texas, or Albuquerque, New Mexico?

Comedy.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A party of tourists on their way east across the continent take advantage of the short stop at Albuquerque, New Mexico, to purchase wares of the Indians congregated about the Indian Exhibits Building near the station. They become so engrossed in the Indians and their handiwork that they do not notice the time slipping by and their train slipping out. Left, they decide to make the best of it by sight-seeing until the next train arrives. Their experience in the interim was funny, unique and exciting.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: USA: Texas: San Antonio

Listing updated: 6 October 2023.

References: Fussell-Normand p. 246; Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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