Edwin August

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Isabel Rea

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Isabel Rea is dead broke and about to be thrown out of her rooming house, when Edwin August offers her a job in his toy shop. Later, she inherits a lot of money and leaves. When August falls ill, will she be there for him? 

The copy of this short film that has been posted to the Eye Institute site on Youtube is in very poor shape, with lots of decomposition and several sections replaced by a series of stills. That, alas, inevitably affects the impact of a movie. In addition, the films issued by Pat Powers in this era (distributed by IMP, later Universal) are generally very simple in their story lines, but are more distinguished by the acting.

The simple, rather obvious story of this one is not very telling, but there aren&apos;t many of Powers&apos; productions from this era surviving, and this, along with the two or three others (all comedies) I have seen, are interesting for their rarity.

Isabel Rea is dead broke and about to be thrown out of her rooming house, when Edwin August offers her a job in his toy shop. Later, she inherits a lot of money and leaves. When August falls ill, will she be there for him? 

The copy of this short film that has been posted to the Eye Institute site on Youtube is in very poor shape, with lots of decomposition and several sections replaced by a series of stills. That, alas, inevitably affects the impact of a movie. In addition, the films issued by Pat Powers in this era (distributed by IMP, later Universal) are generally very simple in their story lines, but are more distinguished by the acting.

The simple, rather obvious story of this one is not very telling, but there aren't many of Powers' productions from this era surviving, and this, along with the two or three others (all comedies) I have seen, are interesting for their rarity.

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