Colonel Bunk, after seeing his first movie, appoints himself “supreme censor of the movies” and he and his Board of Censors set to the task of “pruning” a movie (in more ways than one).
Watch the official Pruning the Movies 1915 trailer in HD below.
Eddie Lyons as The Hero in the Play
Lee Moran as The Villain in the Play
Carmen de Phillipi as The Girl
Harry L. Rattenberry as Colonel Bunk
Al Christie Producer
United States 01 January 1915
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