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Hooligan’s Narrow Escape
(1901) United States of America
B&W : [?] 70 or 75? feet
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Cast: J. Stuart Blackton [Happy Hooligan]
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / Produced by [?] Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton? From the comic strip “Happy Hooligan” by Frederick Burr Opper. Cinematography by [?] Albert E. Smith? / Released July 1901. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From Edison promotional materials] Hooligan is traveling from New York to Boston, walking the ties. An express train is approaching in the distance. As it draws nearer and passes Hooligan stops to wave his hat. Suddenly he looks around and makes a wild spring down the embankment, and just as his coat-tails disappear a train thunders by in the opposite direction over the very spot where he had been standing. As it disappears in a cloud of dust, Hooligan limps painfully up the embankment and shakes his fist at the train.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 22 August 2023.
References: Slide-BigV pp. 10, 171 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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