Pop Tuttle's Movie Queen
(1922)
Comedy | 10 September 1922
Cast:
Dan Mason, Miss Wilna Hervey [ More ]Director:
Robert EddyWriter:
A. H. GieblerProducer:
Paul GersonCinematographer:
Roy VaughanProduction Company:
The Paul Gerson Pictures Corp.Pop Tuttle's Movie Queen was the second of thirteen Plum Center Comedies to be produced in 1922-'23 by The Paul Gerson Pictures Corp. and released by R-C Pictures Corp. R-C's distribution arm became known as Film Booking Offices of America [F. B. O.] in December 1922. The series was an unofficial continuation of the Toonerville Trolly series, based on the comic strip by Fontaine Fox, that was produced by the Betzwood Film Company in Betzwood, PA in 1920-'21. The Paul Gerson Pictures Corp. was based in San Francisco, CA.
When the movie to be played at his theater on Saturday night arrives by Railway Express, Pop Tuttle tells Tillie, the station agent, "This is the very latest Kalem feature." This is a reference to The Kalem Co., a pioneering motion picture production company that ceased operation in 1917 when it sold its assets to The Vitagraph Corporation of America. The reference is meant to indicate that the film playing in Pop Tuttle's theater is five years old and well out of date.
Future director Frank Capra gained some of his earliest experience in the movie business working on the Plum Center Comedies. ...
Pop Tuttle's Movie Queen was the second of thirteen Plum Center Comedies to be produced in 1922-'23 by The Paul Gerson Pictures Corp. and released by R-C Pictures Corp. R-C's distribution arm became known as Film Booking Offices of America [F. B. O.] in December 1922. The series was an unofficial continuation of the Toonerville Trolly series, based on the comic strip by Fontaine Fox, that was produced by the Betzwood Film Company in Betzwood, PA in 1920-'21. The Paul Gerson Pictures Corp. was based in San Francisco, CA.
When the movie to be played at his theater on Saturday night arrives by Railway Express, Pop Tuttle tells Tillie, the station agent, "This is the very latest Kalem feature." This is a reference to The Kalem Co., a pioneering motion picture production company that ceased operation in 1917 when it sold its assets to The Vitagraph Corporation of America. The reference is meant to indicate that the film playing in Pop Tuttle's theater is five years old and well out of date.
Future director Frank Capra gained some of his earliest experience in the movie business working on the Plum Center Comedies.
Dan Mason is the proprietor of a rural picture house in this Plum Center Comedy in which there is a contest for patronage between the place of amusement and meeting of the "blue"
element. The principal is given an opportunity to go through a series of antics and gags relative to the out-of-date features of his theater. His use of the sprinkler, running the slides
upside down, the tearing of the celluloid and efforts to pass a waitress off as a genuine screen performer from Hollywood should amuse those who find "rube" comedy entertaining. The
titles are written in a light vein, and while much of this is slapstick stuff, there is enough of a plot to hold the bits together and it should register nicely. Mason is funny and the offering can be used to advantage after a feature in which the city is the locale. Robert Eddy directed, A. H. Giebler wrote the scenario and Roy Vaughan was at the camera.
The Film Daily, September 3, 1922, page ...
Dan Mason is the proprietor of a rural picture house in this Plum Center Comedy in which there is a contest for patronage between the place of amusement and meeting of the "blue"
element. The principal is given an opportunity to go through a series of antics and gags relative to the out-of-date features of his theater. His use of the sprinkler, running the slides
upside down, the tearing of the celluloid and efforts to pass a waitress off as a genuine screen performer from Hollywood should amuse those who find "rube" comedy entertaining. The
titles are written in a light vein, and while much of this is slapstick stuff, there is enough of a plot to hold the bits together and it should register nicely. Mason is funny and the offering can be used to advantage after a feature in which the city is the locale. Robert Eddy directed, A. H. Giebler wrote the scenario and Roy Vaughan was at the camera.
The Film Daily, September 3, 1922, page 16
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