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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1423

An Over-Incubated Baby

19011 minUnited Kingdom

Synopsis

A mother tries an inventor's machine promising a year's growth in a single hour. The accelerated treatment produces a startling result that turns a technological sales pitch into a comic warning.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 1:13
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Walter R. Booth · Public domain

DirectorsWalter R. Booth

Behind the scenes

Walter R. Booth and producer Robert W. Paul use simple substitutions for the transformation. The invention's absurd promise carries the short without an elaborate setting.

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