A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Edward Boulden (center). Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Edward Boulden [the initiation victim], O.J. McCormack [a member of the club, the baritone member of The Edison Quartette], George W. Ballard [a member of the club, the tenor member of The Edison Quartette], Leo Parmet [a member of the club, a member of The Edison Quartette], H.L. Wilson [a member of the club, a member of The Edison Quartette], [?] ? [the butler].

Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The American Talking Picture Company, Incorporated. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Kinetophone sound-on-cylinder synchronized sound system. / Edison production number [?] 5003 or 5032? The production was shot on [?] 7 December 1912 or 16 February 1913? at the Edison Bronx, New York, studio. The film’s Kinetophone sound cylinder has survived [National Park Service object catalog number EDIS 4632]. / Full-sound film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Early sound film - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 30 September 2018.

References: Robinson-Palace p. 164 : Website-InterArchive.

Home video: DVD.