Funnicus was too proud to bear the humiliations attached to an empty pocketbook, and therefore decided to put an end to his troubles, by killing himself. He then reviewed in his mind, one after the other, the different ways by which he might kill himself. He thought that stabbing himself would not succeed, as the only knife in reach was a badly sharpened and vulgar kitchen knife, which would only tear his poor skin. What about drowning? It was nice spring weather. As we see our unhappy Funnicus melancholy, and reviewing the different ways by which he might end this awful life, a group of students, also without a cent in their pockets, and on the lookout for pleasure and laughter, and realizing that the bigger the crowd the merrier the time, take with them one of the “dummies” stationed at the door of a tailor. Funnicus, not heeding all this excitement, still paced up and down, nursing his troubles, and contemplating suicide. After the students had dragged their “cardboard” comrade from door to door, they became tired of it, and resolved to get rid of it by throwing the dummy in the river. Funnicus decided at the same time to leap overboard, dashed to the river. Much to the alarm of this crowd of foolish boys, he jumped in also. The boys screamed, “Help! Help!” and ran in the direction of the drowning. A crowd quickly gathered to help the drowning man, but as fate would have it, the current pulled him to the other side of the river. But the suicide was delayed by the fact, that when poor Funnicus was contemplating drowning himself, he saw the leap into the river of the “dummy” and thinking it was a man, decided to do one redeeming act of charity before dying, and save this unfortunate. That is why he also leaped into the river, pursuing this drowning object, and succeeded in bringing it to the other side of the river. But, when he proceeded to give it in charge of the villagers, he was laughed at and then arrested. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | April 24, 1913 | |
Genres: | Comedy Short | |
Cast: | Paul Bertho | |
Crew: | Romeo Bosetti | |
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