Pinched off meaning

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows pinched off meaning

poster The Thieving Hand

The Thieving Hand

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', wh…

poster Dunces and Dangers

Dunces and Dangers

Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and every…

poster The Little Tease

The Little Tease

The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. Bu…

Move On

2mn - Documentary

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving. The pictu…

poster Big Business

Big Business

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Moha…

poster Good Glue Sticks

Good Glue Sticks

A peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive off his customers and close him down, much to his fury. …

poster Alice Chops the Suey

Alice Chops the Suey

7mn - Animation

Alice is kidnapped by Chinese Gangsters and brought to Chinatown. Her cat tries (successfully) to rescue her, but then they're hunted by a bunch of angry Chinese Triad members.

poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie

Buncoed Stage Johnnie

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…

poster Along Came Auntie

Along Came Auntie

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

poster Picking Peaches

Picking Peaches

22mn - Comedy, Animation

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when…

poster College Chums

College Chums

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an explanation, he tells her that it was his sister. She is not sa…

poster Noisy Noises

Noisy Noises

Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who won't stop crying. Every effort to calm Rupert is undone by an immediate commotion to wake him up. Joe …

poster The Sprinkler Sprinkled

The Sprinkler Sprinkled

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has s…

poster Operating on Cupid

Operating on Cupid

A short comic film in which a young man has himself admitted to the hospital so as to see more of his girlfriend (who is a nurse there), to the displeasure of the surgeon.

poster Electric Current

Electric Current

2mn - Crime, Comedy

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

poster Clunked on the Corner

Clunked on the Corner

Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a pearl necklace.

poster Mr. Toots' Tooth

Mr. Toots' Tooth

A short silent film in which Mr. Toots miraculously loses his tooth. Mister Toots tries everything to cure his toothache. He eventually succeeds with a string and a book. Furious with the staff, he throws…

poster Le cigare introuvable

Le cigare introuvable

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

poster Tit-for-Tat

Tit-for-Tat

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

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