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The New School Teacher

192452 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

An absent-minded teacher arrives in a small town and quickly becomes the target of his pupils' jokes. When an escaped arsonist sets the school on fire, the man they ridicule has an opportunity to show unexpected courage.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
59:25
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Gregory La Cava · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsGregory La Cava

Inspirations

The comedy draws on stories by Irvin S. Cobb. Gregory La Cava directs Chic Sale in a role that moves from classroom humiliation to a genuine emergency.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

  • Chic Sale — Motion Picture News; Motion Picture News · Public domain
  • Doris Kenyon — Bain News Service; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.33996 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain

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