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The Tramp and the Dog

The rear of a house inclosed by a solid board fence is shown, and a chair is standing near the door with a freshly baked pie on it. A tramp comes along, sees the pie, climbs over the fence, takes the pie and starts away with it. Juste as the tramp is climbing over the fence with the pie a bull dog grabs him by the trousers and prevents his escape. For some moments neither one seems to make any headway, but finally the dog gets the best of it and brings the tramp to the ground; the lady comes out with the broom and between the broom and the dog the make it lively for the tramp. Length 100 feet. Price $15.00.

CHICAGO PROJECTING 1900

The Tramp and the Dog

Laugh and grow fat. A tramp, a veritable hobo, climbs over a fence, and after carefully looking over the ground and seeing no person about, proceeds to "swipe" a pie which was left outside to cool. As he attempts to get over the fence again with his plunder a fierce bulldog seizes him on the bosom of his trousers and pulls him back on the ground. Then begins a tussle between man and dog. The bum is dragged all around the yard but he holds on to the pie like grim death. The mistress of the house urges the dog on and the tramp, from the expression of his face, does not see the joke. This is a genine laugh-producer.

LUBIN 1902

Tramp and Dog

A film which has now been on the market for about a year and has proved the greatest success of any motion picture ever shown. It has attracted thousands in every city in the United States and is now creating a furore in England, France and Germany, in each of which countries it is shown simultaneously. It is intensely comic and the brightest, clearest film ever shown. It represents the felonious action of a tramp who enters a backyard for the purpose of appropriating a pie set there to cool. The dog intervenes at the proper moment and the tramp has his own time endeavoring to escape. The bull dog tenacity of the canine is well exemplified and the scene calls forth uproarious laughter and applause and is almost invariably redemanded wherever shown. No exhibition can afford to be without this film. 
100 ft. $ 13.50.

SELIG 1903

Tramp and Dog

An ever popular subject which has provoked more hilarity and has proved the greatest laughing success of any moving picture ever shown. Its popularity is not confined to this country, but it has created a furore in England, France and Germany, in all of which countries it has been most successfully shown.
The tramp and the dog is intensely comic and also one of the cleanest and brightest films shown. It represents the adventures of a typical "Weary Willie," who, bent on satisfying his hunger, strays into a back yard, and, noticing a pie which the lady of the house has set out to cool, appropriates and makes off with it to devour at leisure. The family bulldog has different views of the subject, however, and pursues Mr. Tramp, finally catching on to the rear of his trousers and hanging there, as bulldogs will. The hobo endeavors to scale the backyard fence, but finds it difficult, encumbered as he is, and falls backward to the ground, where he has a general mixup with the dog and is thoroughly beaten by the lady.
A comic subject which every exhibitor should have and which he can rely on for rounds of merriment every time it is shown.
Approximate Length, 125 feet. price, $ 15.00

1908 ORIGINAL FILMS