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Film, Video Policy and pie Policy & pie / Variant title on Library of Congress website, American Memory, Origins of American animation collection: Katzenjammer Kids: "Policy and pie" / Variant title in Library of Congress video collection, vol. 3. Origins of American animation: Original Katzenjammer Kids in policy and pie

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About this Item

Title

  • Policy and pie

Other Title

  • Policy & pie
  • Variant title on Library of Congress website, American Memory, Origins of American animation collection: Katzenjammer Kids: "Policy and pie"
  • Variant title in Library of Congress video collection, vol. 3. Origins of American animation: Original Katzenjammer Kids in policy and pie

Summary

  • The Captain gets a life insurance policy and gives it to his wife. In gratitude she makes him a pie. The Katzenjammer Kids play a trick on the Captain and sneak toads into his pie so that he would think his wife is trying to poison him.

Names

  • La Cava, Gregory, 1892-1952, direction
  • International Film Service
  • AFI/Souder (Thomas) Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : [International Film Service, 1918].

Headings

  • -  Boys--United States--Drama
  • -  Tricks--Drama
  • -  Germans--United States--Drama
  • -  Immigrants--United States--Drama
  • -  Wives--United States--Drama
  • -  Husbands--United States--Drama
  • -  Life insurance--United States--Policies--Drama

Genre

  • Comedy films
  • Animated films
  • Short films
  • Fiction films

Notes

  • -  Title appears in some sources as Policy & pie.
  • -  Copyright: no reg.
  • -  Duration: 3:31 (part 1) and 3:29 (part 2) at 22 fps.
  • -  Summary from J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress.
  • -  Based on Rudolph Dirks' comics.
  • -  Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1912-1939; Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation, 1900-1921; McIntire, J. Silent animated films at the Library of Congress, 1995.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.

Medium

  • 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 7 min., ca. 605 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
  • 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 7 min., ca. 605 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg pic.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FEB 7728 (viewing print)
  • FPE 2709 (dupe neg pic)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00694023

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

International Film Service, and Afi/Souder. Policy and Pie. directeds by La Cava, Gregory, Ection [United States: International Film Service, 1918] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/00694023/.

APA citation style:

International Film Service & Afi/Souder. (1918) Policy and Pie. La Cava, G., dir [United States: International Film Service] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694023/.

MLA citation style:

International Film Service, and Afi/Souder. Policy and Pie. dir by La Cava, Gregory, Ection [United States: International Film Service, 1918] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/00694023/>.