The Cub Reporter (1909)
The beginner in newspaper work is always "the cub" and our hero is very new to the newspaper game but terribly earnest. He devils the life out of the City Editor for an assignment until the latter, in desperation, tells himself to get locked up in an Asylum for the Insane. The cub gets his friend Reggie to help him. They dine at a fashionable restaurant where the cub speedily qualifies for the asylum and is removed to Dr. Bedlam's Sanitarium. He is unfortunate in his selection for the inmates have overpowered their keepers and are running the place. The ringleader manages to impersonate the superintendent without exciting suspicion while the policeman is there but when Reggie turns to go, he finds himself detained as well as the cub. The lunatics swarm upon the scene and until the city editor sends the police to their rescue, the cub and his chum have a most exciting time-but it made a "bully story."
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GenresDrama
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
