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File: The Flapper (1920).webm
Author: Alan Crosland
Publisher: Selznick Pictures
Year: 1920
PD: PD/US|1936
Note: a 1920 American silent comedy film, the first in the United States to portray the "flapper" lifestyle, which became a cultural craze or fad in the 1920s.
Cat: Comedy film, Silent film
00:00
Selznick Pictures
Lewis J. Selznick
presents
OLIVE THOMAS
in
THE FLAPPER
By Frances Marion
Selznick Pictures
Passed by the National Board of Review
00:12
Directed by
ALAN CROSLAND
00:21
Photographed by
JACK BROWN
Edited by
H. J. McCORD
Art Titles by
VERNON CALDWELL
Copyright 1920 Selznick Pictures Corporation
00:36
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Genevieve King |
OLIVE THOMAS |
01:13
Imagine a town where they didn't even have a saloon to close
ORANGE SPRINGS.
01:48
A church social was a sporting event. Girls who hobnobbed at the soda fountain were talked about.
02:18
Now you can sympathise with a certain girl living there
Genevieve King—Miss Olive Thomas
02:43
You would hardly call the little Kings roughnecks.
03:15
BILL E. FORBES
About to enter the world of romance and a northern military academy.
04:14
Genevieve's father, Senator King—a very stern man in the eyes of his oppressed children.
04:35
The housekeeper, Miss Elmira Buttons, an old school disciplinarian.
06:27
"Miss Paddles' school would be just the place for her."
07:05
Now you can appreciate the amazing change when Genevieve's found herself a few weeks later, at a boarding school near New York.
07:50
Limbs of Satan from old family trees.
08:05
The ONCE OVER.
08:16
Hortense, a moth among the butterflies, taken into the school by the charitable principal.
09:17
Across the way—a school for budding Pershings.
09:47
CHEST HIGH
10:34
When it came to tooting his own horn, Bill E. Forbes made Sousa's band sound like a sick canary.
10:44
"Then the sailors got fresh and I mopped up the ground with 'em."
11:03
HERO WORSHIP.
11:08
"The cops kept me from knocking 'em all cold."
11:21
"Gee! I bet he could'a licked the cops!"
11:30
"I betcha!"
11:39
Boarding school studies are so dull—
12:22
But one study they all enjoyed
the natural history of the human male.12:29
Their favorite specimen passed the school daily—a mysterious and romantic figure—
Richard Channing
12:43
They just knew he was notorious, or very gay, or perhaps an English lord—this made it so romantic.
13:15
"He looks delightfully wild and dangerous!"
13:22
"Perhaps he's a professional gambler!"
13:34
"Or an actor!"
13:42
"He might even be a wife-beater!"
13:49
"The idea! My heart tells me he hasn't any wife to beat
yet."14:46
To meet Bill E. Forbes again thus!—Oh joy!—Oh bliss!—Oh romance!
15:26
"Girls, isn't that Forbes man a wonderful athlete?"
15:50
"He's wounded!"
16:11
"Call the ambulance. I've busted a couple o' my legs."
16:49
"Oh Bill, is there anything I can do for you?"
16:58
"You might hold my head."
17:12
"Aw gee! He ain't no hero!"
17:50
"Ski?
huh! I'll teach you to ski—"18:03
WHEE
18:20
"
I wrote these winter sports!"18:52
"You don't happen to know our Mystery Man, do you?"
19:10
"Don't you think he looks like a Greek god?"
19:22
"He looks like a fried egg to me."
19:43
"He rides like an old woman."
19:50
"I suppose you are an expert!"
20:04
"Sure! Ever since I was six years old I've been an EXPERT!"
20:22
"Wouldn't it be great to play hookey and go riding some day?"
20:31
"Yeh—wouldn't it
how about tomorrow?"21:33
"You seem to be having a busy day."
21:45
The call-down was worth it—for the girls now called her Ginger.
24:11
"Yesterday he brushed his teeth
three times!"24:18
"
and washed behind his ears!"24:25
"Sumpin' terrible's wrong with him."
25:38
"Isn't this romantic!"
25:45
It wasn't a darn bit romantic to Bill E. Forbes. He never had handled a horse before."
27:33
"Did you notice a gentleman driving away in a sleigh?"
27:42
"No, but I saw a kid chasing one."
27:59
"At present I am a guest at Miss Paddles' school."
28:48
"I pass there every day—nice lot of youngsters."
28:55
"We're nothing of the kind. They force us to act like silly youngsters, but
"29:10
"—can you imagine a woman of my age having to wear a Peter Thompson?"
29:30
"How old are you?"
29:37
"Oh—h—h, about twenty."
30:21
"We're giving a dance at the Country Club tonight. Can you go?"
30:36
"Yes
I'll go."30:40
"What time shall I call?"
30:45
"Don't call. I'll meet you there—at ten."
31:20
"You wouldn't dare—"
31:29
"A woman dares anything for the man she loves."
32:08
"To think she's leading a double life! Isn't it wonderful!"
32:22
Poor Bill E. Forbes had the cornet blues.
32:35
"Goodness gracious! Another of my lovers!"
35:13
the Ball
R.C.
MR. RICHARD CHANNING
35:22
HEART TROUBLE!
35:59
"Poor Richard! How he loves me!"
36:14
Ten o'clock
Gingers chauffeur sometimes delivered groceries to the school in this limousine.
41:36
"You ought to be arrested—luring a sixteen-year-old girl out at night!"
42:04
"My fan!"
42:23
"That's what you get for being nice to a kid of that sap-headed, pin-feathered age."
43:40
So Ginger decides to end it all and teach him a terrible lesson.
47:34
"Everything stealable is stolen."
47:43
"We must keep it quiet or the school will be disgraced."
47:54
"I will settle all the losses."
48:33
If life offered so many adventures, why die?
48:58
In a New York hotel.
To fugitives, every stranger looks like a bloodhound.
49:32
"I saw that Channing guy in the lobby. He might know of the school job."
49:57
"You're right. That King kid, Ginger, will be going home on her vacation tomorrow. We'll make her the goat."
50:45
WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAM
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENTGEORGE W. E. ATKINE, VICE-PRESIDENT
D ATDOBBS FERRY NY
#14 NY C JRS 22
NYC 10:00 AM MON 1ST 1920
MISS GENEVIEVE KING
C/O HILLCREST SCHOOL DOBBS FERRY NY
IF YOU WILL STOP AT THE VANDER-DYKE HOTEL ON YOU WAY
HOME YOU WILL LEARN SOMETHING OF GREAT INTEREST TO YOU
A FRIEND
9:50 AM
51:17
Alone in the wicked city.
52:08
Ginger had read of a girl meeting a prince by doing this.
52:26
"Hello, Peaches-and-Cream, wither bound?"
52:30
HOMEWARD BOUND.
52:34
THE HIGHEST CLASS
TALKING MACHINE IN THE WORLD
5th AVEN. AT 53th ST.
52:56
THE MYSTERIOUS APPOINTMENT
53:46
"We were eloping. We only stole the stuff for an adventure."
53:58
"Sure, didn't Old Girl Paddles tell you the stuff had been returned?"
54:15
"Mr. Channing is stopping here too."
54:39
"Why not dine with us and stay overnight?"
55:01
Back home at Orange Springs Bill E. Forbes made up his mind to stand in with the family.
55:32
Ginger's first experience is "stepping out."
56:10
"How disappointing! I thought New York cafes were filled with wild women and those terrible Wall Street gamblers."
57:12
Oh sweet revenge—
to be seen by Channing in this gay night life.
57:49
"Does Miss Paddles know you're out?"
57:56
"You talk as if I were still at that 'sap-headed, pin-feathered' age."
58:09
"Do you live in New York?"
58:24
"Orange Springs! Why, a crowd of us leave tomorrow to join a yachting party there. Better take the same train."
59:00
"I'm afraid that wild kid is getting into trouble."
59:09
"He treats me like a child."
59:15
"Of course. That kind of man likes only women of experience."
59:22
"Well, I'm getting it as fast as I can."
59:46
Can you imagine!
It was ten o'clock before she ever went to bed.
1:00:59
820
1:01:18
"We're leaving and we want you to take care of these."
1:01:29
"Take them to Orange Springs—and hide them."
1:01:38
"We'll come and get them as soon as we can."
1:01:53
"And if you squeal—"
1:03:02
Great gobs of adventure.
1:03:28
A complete outfit for a "woman of experience"
she might borrow it and vamp Channing.1:03:58
My Own Woman:-
You dreadfully
wicked boarding school
Miss! How lonely I am
without you. If you
could only arrange to
see me more often
1:04:20
Hortense's love letters, an education in themselves, suggested a new idea—she would go home with a manufactured "past".
1:04:40-1:04:43
Miss Genevieve King
Orange Springs,
Fla.
Miss Genevieve King
Orange Springs,
Fla.
Miss Genevieve King,
Orange Springs,
Florida.
1:05:01
"You are to mail one every day."
1:05:59
Orange Springs wasn't expecting
THIS
1:07:09
"William—I'm not the innocent little girl you used to know."
1:07:25
"It is better that you never see me again."
1:07:56
"Well, Buttons deah! Here I am."
1:08:41
"Howdy, Gushie, old top! How's everyone in the little old town?"
1:08:55
"Ta—ta."
1:09:17
"I have a confession to make
I'm leading a double life."1:09:30
"—in New York—in notorious company—'til all hours in the morning."
1:10:23
"Why, it was only a few days ago—she was just a little flower."
1:10:51
"And her father out of town! Isn't this terrible!"
1:12:09
"Is it too late?"
1:12:17
"Too late!"
1:12:35
"Tell me his name."
1:12:45
His name! This was a new angle!
1:12:58
"No—I shall die with the secret locked in my heart."
1:13:19
"I shall probably become a dope fiend,—to forget."
1:14:11
Having succeeded beyond her wildest hopes, she decided to get rid on the vampire outfit.
1:14:15 P
BAGGAGE OFFICE
1:14:29
Chief of Police
New York City
New York
1:15:13
TELEGRAM
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENTGEORGE W. E. ATKINE, VICE-PRESIDENT
RECEIVED AT P H A905H RAL
NEW YORK NY 24445 40
POLICE COMMISSIONER
NEW YORK NY
HAVE STUMBLED ACROSS MYSTERIOUS SUITCASES LOOKS
MIGHTY SUSPICIOUS ADVISE IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION
MILT LOGANBERRY
STATION MASTER OGANGE SPRINGS FLA
4:40PM
1:15:57
Then home came father.
1:16:15
"One of these letters is arriving every day. I am keeping them from her."
1:16:32
My Own Woman:-
You dreadfully
wicked boarding school
Miss! How lonely I am
without you. If you
could only arrange to
see me more often
1:17:12
"You have no idea who the man is?"
1:17:21
"I will kill every suspect!"
1:18:01
"You knew you old Daddy would forgive you."
1:18:12
"But it's all a joke, Daddy—"
1:18:20
"Aren't things bad enough without lying?"
1:18:55
You misjudge Bill. He isn't running away. He is beating the Senator to a suspect.
1:19:20
"You big stiff, you'll have to answer to me for your crime!"
1:20:21
"Don't lie! Who was in on this with you?"
1:20:53
"This is the handwriting of Tom Morran, alias The Eel."
1:21:13
"Sorry, Senator, we'll have to hold her until she tells where her pals are hiding."
1:21:44
HER "PALS".
1:21:47
ORANGE SPRINGS
1:22:40
"Safe? We couldn't be safer in the middle of the Sahara Desert."
1:23:20-1:23:25
They walked right in, and turned around, and
They walked right in, and turned around, and
They walked right in, and turned around, and
1:24:13
"You didn't fool me."
1:24:49
ORANGE SPRINGS---
Social welfare workers horrified over soft drink dissipation at Miami Beach club
1:25:04
"Have a couple more."
1:25:24
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