A little man buys a paper and begins to read it as he walks down the street. It is so absorbing -- as the title indicates -- that he doesn't notice anything else. He knocks down streetlights and walks into women who stab him with enormous hatpins, yet goes on reading.
Watch the official Absorbing Reading 1911 trailer in HD below.
France 17 March 1911
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1911:
24 April 1911
Two men attempt to commit suicide for vastly different reasons. They try various methods but find it increasingly difficult to finish the job.
18 February 1911
A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The bosses and clerk get a surprise at the end.
25 October 1911
Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home.
18 May 1911
A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.
21 December 1911
Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.
11 December 1911
A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.
03 March 1911
The setting is the Mexican Revolution and friends Pedro and Alvarez get a message to transport some weapons across the border.
10 July 1911
A lost film. Flora Powell and Arthur Lennox are lovers, but the girl's stern father has other plans for his daughter, preferring the Rev.
23 March 1911
The punchers of the XL outfit are wild with joy, 'cause Mary, the idol of the ranch, is comin' home from college.
02 February 1911
A young man inherits a business, struggles, but learns about love and life from the daughter of his rival.
24 August 1911
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband.
12 January 1911
Lorna is a woman and she is all business when it comes to running the "L.L." Ranch and she has no trouble in handling it and the "boys" who work for her, especially "Jeff," her foreman, who gives her a hand.
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