Timetable

The Classmate’s Frolic

Ralph Ince

US
1913
Silent film
7’
OW
Focus

A group of lively schoolgirls are under the strict diktat of their teacher. When one of them gets bored while banned to her room, the friends decide to secretly visit her, getting help doing so from the caretaker. To get the party going, they organise a street musician and outwit the strict teacher. Many actors from the New York production Vitagraph play in this film.


With Flora Finch
Flora Finch was born into a theatre family in London and came to the US as a small child. She landed her first film roles in 1908 with the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. She worked there with Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin and other prominent actors of the early film era. From 1910 she appeared on camera with John Bunny at Vitagraph; with him she made 160 highly popular short films from 1910 to 1915. In 1916, she set up her own production company but could not match her earlier successes.


Films with Flora Finch (Selection)
The Women
1939 | Way Out West 1937 | The Scarlet Letter 1934 | The Cat and the Canary 1927 | The Great Adventure 1918 | Prodence the Pirate 1916 | Bunny as a Reporter 1913 | All on Account of the Milk 1910 | The Helping Hand 1908

Director

Ralph Ince

Script

Ralph Ince, Eugene Mullin

Cast

Flora Finch, Charles Edwards, Lucille Lee Stewart, William Shea, Anita Stewart, Edith Storey, Rosemary Theby, Lillian Walker

Production

Vitagraph

Contact

Eye Filmmuseum