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User: M-le-mot-dit
File: Matrimony's Speed Limit 1913.ogv
Author: Alice Guy-Blaché
Publisher: Solax Film Company
Year: 1913
PD: PD-US|1968|film=yes
Note: A 1913 silent short film produced and directed by pioneering female film maker Alice Guy-Blaché. It was selected to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2003.
Cat: Comedy film, Silent film
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Matrimony's Speed Limit
(1913, Solax)
Producer/director:
Alice Guy-Blaché
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BAD NEWS OVER THE TAPE RUINS FRAUNIE.
00:12
JULY
18
Thursday
01:35
FRAUNIE TELLS MARIAN OF HIS MISFORTUNE AND TRIES TO BREAK OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENT.
02:13
MARIAN OFFERS HIM HER BANK AND CHECK BOOKS, BUT HE REFUSES THEM.
03:35
"GREAT! I'LL DO IT!"
SHE SENDS HIM A TELEGRAM.
05:14
POSTAL TELEGRAPH — COMMERCIAL CABLES
TELEGRAM
MR. FRAUNIE, JULY 18th, 191 3
FORT LEE, N. J.
YOUR AUNT DIED OUT WEST LEAVING YOU A FORTUNE
PROVIDING YOU ARE MARRIED BY TWELVE OCLOCK NOON, JULY 18th.
CLAY & LAMBERT,
Attorneys-at-Law.
05:42
MARIAN PREPARES FOR THE WEDDING.
06:45
"GEE! I HAVE ONLY TWELVE MINUTES TO MARRY OR LOSE A FORTUNE."
07:21
"WILL YOU MARRY ME?"
"QUICK! I HAVE ONLY TWELVE MINUTES."
08:04
"THIS IS SO SUDDEN!"
08:58
ONLY SEVEN MINUTES AND MARIAN IS NOT HOME.
09:25
ALMOST TWELVE AND FRAUNIE GONE.
09:29
STOCKs, BONDs
09:45
HOPES REVIVED.
10:46
"GOOD-NIGHT!"
11:27
"GOOD-BYE FORTUNE! GOOD-BYE CRUEL WORLD!"
12:32
TWELVE O'CLOCK AND ALL IS WELL.
14:12
The End