A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.
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- TriviaOne of the 50 films in the 4-disk boxed DVD set called "Treasures from American Film Archives (2000)", compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 18 American film archives. This film was preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. This version has an uncredited piano music score and runs 3 minutes.
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Amusing and full of sadistic and dark humor
This is a very early and short cartoon from 1916. The main character is broke and comes up with an amazingly stupid idea. Since he's insured, he figures he should maim himself so he can collect big bucks!! Again and again, he tries to get himself hurt only to eventually give up in disgust--he just is too lucky (I guess this depends on your viewpoint, doesn't it?). Then, just after the policy lapses, he takes a tumble and ends up in the hospital where he is told he must stay for the next several months!! The cartoon is about average in quality for the time and is pretty reminiscent of the work of Winsor McCay. However, unlike McCay, the humor is definitely on the funny, dark and sadistic side and that is why I actually liked the cartoon quite a bit!
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- planktonrules
- Oct 28, 2006
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- Runtime3 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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