Synopsis: A bank janitor falls in love with an employee, mistaking a letter she addressed to the cashier his namesake as it were to him.
Appraisal: This film is a step in the evolution of short films into a more coherent work of art, an evolution that would only mature completely by the 1920's when longer films would be the rule and not the exception. There are anthological sequences like the initial one (I will not describe it here as it is based on a surprise that I do not want to spoil), and the whole film is carefully planned as a coherent whole and not a jumbled series of gags. One of the better films of that period.
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