The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog

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The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905)

Breve Commedia Famiglia Satira Slapstick

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe Whole Dam Family and The Dam Dog is a popular fad which has been widely advertised by lithographs and souvenir mailing cards, and has recently been made the subject of a sketch in a New ... Leggi tuttoThe Whole Dam Family and The Dam Dog is a popular fad which has been widely advertised by lithographs and souvenir mailing cards, and has recently been made the subject of a sketch in a New York Vaudeville Theatre. The Edison Manufacturing Co., with their usual up-to-date methods... Leggi tuttoThe Whole Dam Family and The Dam Dog is a popular fad which has been widely advertised by lithographs and souvenir mailing cards, and has recently been made the subject of a sketch in a New York Vaudeville Theatre. The Edison Manufacturing Co., with their usual up-to-date methods, have illustrated this popular subject in a most novel and original way in Motion Picture... Leggi tutto

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William Courtenay

Jimmy Dam
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Frank Daniels

Mr. I. B. Dam
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May Irwin

Mrs. Dam
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Charlotte Walker

Miss U. B. Dam
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4edwartell

It's just one joke

Like the title says. Like snickering fourth-graders, the movie makes jokes about the family's name. The wife's name is Mrs. Hellen Dam, etc. They pose for us behind a platform with their name written on it. Notable as a surviving early silent rather than for any cinematic value.

8iliakhachidzegeocrusader

Little masterpiece

This is a little masterpiece. firstly, it is an interesting pop culture curio and and secondly, the satirical take on various personalities of the family members in a Tristram Shandy or Gargantuan grotesque style.

7drn5

Briefly entertaining

Yes, it's just one joke, and not a very funny one at that, but you have to admit that the Dam Dog, when we finally see him, is cute. He has a happy face and looks overjoyed to have made it in the movies. While I am unlikely to place this squib of a film in my top 10,000, I hope the Dam Dog is resting peacefully in his grave, wherever it is.

4planktonrules

One Dam joke after another...but all essentially the same Dam joke!

Many folks today assume that back in the old days, folks never swore and films were 100% squeaky clean. Well, if that was true, then the Edison Company would never have brought out a film called "The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog"! Obviously they were trying to get the folks' attention to draw them into theaters!

The film itself is a bit of a disappointment, as it's basically the same Dam joke again and again and it lacks the narrative or jokes to make it memorable...just the title. The film starts with an over-long introduction where you meet all of this Dam family. Then in the story itself, the family is eating dinner and nothing happens until the very end. Overall, I was just Dam disappointed.

4kobe1413

A 20th-Century "Meet the Fockers"

A mildly entertaining short that expands on a popular postcard of 1905. It presents a complete family with the last name of Dam. They each mug for the camera as they are introduced. Then they all sit together as if for a postcard. Then, following a brief interlude of animation that presents the name of short, the family sits down for a meal. After fighting with the Dam dog, the Father Dam yells at Jimmy Dam for smoking at the table. All is interrupted though when the dog returns and proceeds to pull the tablecloth off of the table.

The characterizations are okay but, do the time constraints, only hit one note. The dog steals the picture of his obvious joy of fighting with the father and barking at the family. The chaos he provides livens up the mundane picture.

Overall, I give 4 out of a 10.