The Note in the Shoe
A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job for her, as his wife.
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"I didn't like this short film for the following reasons. The 34 year old D.W. Griffith uses his leading ladies like Mary Pickford to define beauty. For me, she is a just looking Canadian woman. In the process of defining beauty in this film, he demonises diversity, discrediting the marginalized to uplift his interpretation of mainstream society. There is certainly character tension between the players, but its not to do with the story. Some of it is a result of the spartan conditions that the actors had to live in whilst they traveled west to shoot this film. Part of it is also to do with..."
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Released as a split reel along with One Busy Hour (1909).
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A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job for her, as his wife.