Rastus is taking a nap on a railroad bridge when he is shanghaied and eventually released on a tropical shore. He is captured by Zulu warriors in this split-reel comedy from Lubin.
This one-joke bit of film is offensive by modern standards, but director Arthur Hotaling quite clearly does a workmanlike piece of work on it (whether that makes it more or less offensive is left as a problem for the audience). That is typical for Lubin's product: while among the most technically proficient of the Patents Trust producers -- the founder started as an optician and manufacturer of photographic equipment -- his studio was extremely conservative in subject and cinematic techniques.
This is not a film you have to see, unless, like me, you'll look at any movie.
This one-joke bit of film is offensive by modern standards, but director Arthur Hotaling quite clearly does a workmanlike piece of work on it (whether that makes it more or less offensive is left as a problem for the audience). That is typical for Lubin's product: while among the most technically proficient of the Patents Trust producers -- the founder started as an optician and manufacturer of photographic equipment -- his studio was extremely conservative in subject and cinematic techniques.
This is not a film you have to see, unless, like me, you'll look at any movie.