How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
In order to attend a baseball game he desperately wants to see, an office worker tells his boss a phony story about a family emergency in order to get the day off. However, things don't work out quite the way he planned.
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"The office boy gets a note to come home because Granny's dying.... anyway, he gives it to his boss. Next thing, he's sitting on some telephone wires outside the Polo Grounds, watching the Giants play Philadelphia. The frame is constricted to a circular field when we see the players on the field. That's because the office boy is watching the game through a telescope. This sort of shaped iris to indicate what someone was watching was popular in this period. It might be double circles, if the viewer was using binoculars, or even keyhole-shaped, to indicate a peeping Tom...."
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In order to attend a baseball game he desperately wants to see, an office worker tells his boss a phony story about a family emergency in order to get the day off. However, things don't work out quite the way he planned.