Wallace McCutcheon Sr. Trailers
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Wallace McCutcheon Sr., referred to affectionately as "Old Man McCutcheon" by members of the Biograph stock company, was, by 1907, indeed one of the senior figures in American film production. Little is known of his background, but he had apparently moved into the early film industry from stage direction. Under the encouragement of his friend Frank Marion, McCutcheon began working as a supervisor and director for American Mutoscope in 1897, continuing with them after their reorganization as American Mutoscope & Biograph in 1899. McCutcheon Sr.'s wealth of credits are often mixed up with the small handful of films directed by his son, Wallace McCutcheon Jr. (1884–1928). Sources indicate he also went by the name of George McCutcheon.
Most Popular Wallace McCutcheon Sr. Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
07 March 1908
With the family of Mr. Phlipp there is employed that wrecker of domestic serenity, a pretty French maid, whose trim figure and cherry lips are simply irresistible.
19 June 1908
A poorly compensated bank clerk is, we may say, to that trying position of "Tantalus" in sight of tons of money but not a dollar of his own.
29 June 1906
A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by handcar.
11 April 1905
The camera is high above Manhattan near the top of the Times Building, pointing down.
06 May 1908
At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite.
21 March 1908
Crime drama involving an Irish couple immigrating to America
10 February 1908
A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pictures on a wall for everyone to see, his father spanks him and smashes the camera.
07 July 1908
Mack Sennett appears in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
06 April 1907
Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.
29 April 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
07 April 1908
A gorilla escapes from its master on a ship, breaks into a young woman's home, and kills her. The woman's fiancé, Jim, who had visited earlier, is framed for the murder by the police.
09 July 1902
A very clever and interesting picture. A family group composed of grandpa, mamma and several children are seen about a library table.
09 June 1908
Stable hostler Joe loves his wife Annie, but she leaves him and their child for a wealthy gentleman, only to die destitute in London, where Joe's enduring love brings her solace in her final moments.
27 March 1905
A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is assigned to commit an act of terror.
31 July 1903
Showing the entire catastrophe resulting from the attempt of Mr. Gorham to ride around the loop the loop on a bicycle.
31 July 1903
Kathryn Osterman was a legitimate actress who worked occasionally in the movies during the first decade and a half of the 20th century.
02 June 1908
William Thompson and John Smith occupied offices in the same New York skyscraper, and both being seized with an irrepressible desire to cut loose and paint things crimson, arranged it as follows in this Biograph picture.
29 March 1906
Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria kidnapped.
22 April 1908
Hulda is a maiden fair to look upon. Her artless rustic simplicity, rivaling Hebe's gorgeous radiance, phlogisticates the susceptible hearts of the village swains.
19 October 1904
A woman and her guests frantically search for her missing child, who is eventually found playing with her dog in the kennel.
16 June 1908
Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" No indeed! He would have procured some of the mysterious fluid compounded by an erudite scientist by which things animate and inanimate were rendered non est, for ten minutes at least, by simply spraying them with it.
19 August 1904
A mountaineer loads a shipment of moonshine whiskey onto his horse-cart, then goes to make a delivery.
20 October 1906
A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the detective to produce photographic evidence.
08 March 1905
Based loosely on the once-popular nursery rhyme. A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities.
12 January 1904
A deranged man who believes he is Napoleon escapes the asylum and leads his keepers on a wild chase.
04 January 1908
Two young ladies, members of a dramatic stock company, are rivals for stellar honors. One seems to have had things her own way for a time, having been cast always for the leading roles, which opportunities made her the "public's pet.
29 June 1904
A man who has placed a personal advertisement for a prospective wife goes to wait at the meeting place that he designated.
27 February 1908
In ancient Egypt, a princess is executed after being caught in an affair with a Theban warrior, with her soul sealed inside a vase.
14 September 1905
Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and then proceeds to abuse his wife both verbally and physically.
28 March 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a charity worker in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
20 May 1908
Two noblemen fight over a lady.
15 April 1908
Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.
19 August 1903
A study in moods. A handsome girl is plucking the petals of a daisy, and repeating the well-known doggerel.
18 March 1908
A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter wanders off, attracted by the music from a pair of gypsies performing in the street.
10 July 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a man in a bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
18 January 1908
A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography, and our story opens with the old man in his library studying out the plans of his invention.
21 September 1903
In the next scene all that is left of the cabin is a smoldering ruin. A company of trappers come rapidly out of the forest and discover the bodies of the unfortunate man and woman.
31 May 1906
In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a bright yellow dress.
01 February 1908
Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both.
21 May 1900
A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the victim's prostrate body.
01 December 1904
Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.
11 November 1904
A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.
07 April 1906
Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets.
28 August 1903
A young man is courting his lady fair with the handicap of a toy poodle dog between them. The girl seems to prefer the dog, and when the young man is bitten on the finger that completes his vexation.
30 June 1908
A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a costume ball.
11 March 1908
As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and then stand in a position where they cannot be seen from the sidewalk.
02 January 1904
Only women are at a resort, until one man arrives. He woos a pretty young widow, and wins her.
23 June 1908
In the 1849 American West, seductive outlaw Jack Morgan falls in love with Mollie, an innkeeper's daughter, already coveted by stagecoach driver Dick.
