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  • The County Fair (1910)
  • Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
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The County Fair (1910)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
"The County Fair" is as well known to the theater-goers as "Rip Van Winkle,'' "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "The Old Homestead." To the jaded brain-tired city man its story is as sweet as a breath of new mown hay or the scent of sweet clover. It ...See more"The County Fair" is as well known to the theater-goers as "Rip Van Winkle,'' "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "The Old Homestead." To the jaded brain-tired city man its story is as sweet as a breath of new mown hay or the scent of sweet clover. It takes thousands back to their childhood in rock-ribbed old England. Dear old Aunt Abby (made famous by the late Neil Burgess), the typical Yankee spinster whose heart is as soft as her tongue is sharp, whose home was the refuge of pretty Sally Greenaway, who loved the stalwart Joel Bartlett, who worked "the farm" on shares with Aunt Abby. We see Aunt Abby take to her heart the mischievous slangy little city waif "Taggs," who has been sent to her from New York and who turns out to be her dead sister's child. We see her protecting "Taggs" and "Tim the Tanner," a little chap, formerly a jockey, from arrest by the constable. Solon Hammerhead, a hard-fisted skinflint, who wants to marry Abby, and, when she refuses his offer of marriage, threatens to foreclose the mortgage he holds on the farm. We see her trying to make big, fat, awkward Otis Tucker tell his love for her after ten years of silent courtship. We see the life of the farm in the bright June days, the corn husking, the country dance in the old red barn, see Tim the Tanner training the farm horse, which he has entered in the running race at the "County Fair," unknown to Aunt Abby. We see them driving to the "Fair" all dressed up in their "go to meetin'" clothes and see the race between the flying thoroughbreds, see little Tim riding like a demon on "Cold Molasses" now in the lead, then, pocketed under whip and spur, forge ahead in the stretch and dash under the wire a length to the good, the winner of the purse that pays off the mortgage on Aunt Abby's farm. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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William Nicholas Selig
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Updated Dec 15, 1910
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Dec 15, 1910 (United States)

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