A Christmas Accident

A Christmas Accident (1912)
by Harold Marvin Shaw

A 1912 American short Christmas film, after an Annie Eliot Trumbull's story.

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Cast and Crew
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Production company	Edison Studios
Distributor	General Film Company
Director	Harold M. Shaw (d. 1926)
Screenwriter	Bannister Merwin (d. 1922)
Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1926, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 97 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States.

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3846970A Christmas Accident1912Harold Marvin Shaw

TRADE MARK
Thomas A. Edison
REG. U.S. PAT. OFF

A Christmas
Accident

by
Annie Eliot Trumbull

(Copyright, 1897, A. S. Barnes and Company)

Neighbors.

Mr. Gilton	William Wadsworth
Mrs. Gilton	Mrs. William Bechtel
Mr. Bilton	Augustus Phillips
Mrs. Bilton	Mrs. C. J. Williams
Cora Cordelia Bilton	Edna Hamel

The home of means and selfishness

The home of little means but contentment.

Mr. Gilton's order goes to the wrong house.

"Where is the roast beef?"

Gilton's dog has been poisoned.

The day before Christmas.

Mrs. Gilton wants to do something for the family next door.

"Santa Claus is poor this year."

Five little stockings.

"Santa Claus forgot to bring us a turkey."

Blinded by the storm.

Santa Claus!

To Mr. Gilton

Because his

⁠doggie died.

THE END

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1912, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1926, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 97 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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