Billy's Melodrama (1916)
Billy's favorite indoor sport is reading bloodcurdling thrillers. But he fails to find anything in his library sufficiently exciting to bold his interest, so he decides to write a real thriller himself. He employs a hero, a heroine and a villain. Each time he throws his hero into a trying situation and each time he has the greatest difficulty in getting him out of it. Finally Billy has his three characters up in an aeroplane and the hero is about to hurl the villain to the depths below for his many crimes. But Billy, in his writing, has become so excited that he has thrown a lighted cigarette butt on the floor and this has ignited his celluloid collar. The room is ablaze and the fire engines are outside, when Billy reaches this point in his story. When the firemen come to the rescue, Billy pleads for a few minutes to finish his story, but they drag him out unceremoniously and his story is never ended. Billy is next seen in a padded cell where all he can say is, "They're up in the clouds and I can't get them down." The story turns out to be a dream.
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GenresComedy
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Frank Currier | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Wilfred Lytell | |
| Shirley Moore | |
| William Dangman |
