Musty Suffer in "Out Of Order" (1916) silent film score by Ben Model

"Out of Order" is from the first 10-film series in The Mishaps of Musty Suffer. Buy the DVD at http://amzn.com/B00JRHW4GK. Musical score © 2014 by Ben Model, all rights reserved.http://www.mustysuffer.com Produced for video by Ben Model, film sourced from the Library of Congress.

Film running speed 20fps. Scanned at 2K from 16mm archival positive print made by Library of Congress in 1959 from original nitrate (which no longer survives).

This film was part of a Kickstarter-funded DVD project; there were too many good Musty Suffer films to fit on the DVD, and this is one that didn't make it onto the disc but is released here exclusively online.

Out of Order (4/20/1916) Series 1, Whirl #9. Cast: Harry Watson Jr., Dan Crimmins, Della Connor, H.H. McCollum, Maxfield Moree.

Syn: “Musty Suffer, yearning earnestly for a quiet, easy and reposeful job, calls upon his fairy to provide it for him. He is taken to an amusement arcade where he is hypnotized by one of the freaks in the show, provided with a gorgeous uniform in a jiffy and assigned to the job of ticket taker, chief janitor, book black, “spieler,” hat cleaner, target in a shooting gallery and superintendent of an escalator. In addition to those few duties Musty was assigned to run chores and entertain the freaks in the museum. Musty finds great pleasure in working the escalator leading to the motion picture theatre but the “bouncing” of patrons who fail to go through the formality of buying tickets is one of his chief difficulties, but one which he overcomes promptly when he discovers the reverse action of the escalator. Musty also has several discouraging adventures with the wild man, the lion, the bearded lady, etc., which escape periodically from the museum or the menagerie, but meets each emergency in some ingenious way.” (4/29/1916 Moving Picture World, pg. 869)