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Cartoons on the Beach
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Raoul Barré
Cast: J.W. Foster (Oscar W. Forster) [Billy], Maxine Brown [Eleanor], Gladys Leslie [Trixie Brody], Charles Mussett [Brody, Trixie’s husband]
[?} Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated? production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Raoul Barré. Animation by Raoul Barré, Gregory La Cava and Frank Moser. / Released 8 September 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy: Cartoon.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Billy and his sweetheart, Eleanor, are with a crowd of friends at the seashore. Here Billy meets Trixie, the flirt, otherwise Mrs. Brody. While Billy is paying attention to Trixie the girls are looking at a book of “Cartoons.” The first picture shows “The Kelly Kid’s Bathing Adventure” in which little Billy has his clothes eaten by a goat while he is in a pond. He climbs out, undaunted, and starts on his homeward way. Sitting on a freshly painted bench, he gets up with some beautiful green stripes decorating the place where his bathing suit should be. By smearing the same kind of stripes all around the little chap walks off with a very good substitute for a bathing suit. After many funny adventures, he reaches home to be soundly spanked and given a bath in the kitchen sink. In “Mr. Hicks in Nightmareland” Hercules finds himself seated on the beach with a telescope in his hand. Through it he sees a dream of summer loveliness posing in the surf. Hardly has he succeeded in “getting her eye” when he is brought back to earth by his watchful wife. In “Bunkum’s Boarding House,” Silas and Wifie start out to get rich quick by housing and feeding summer boarders. Silas is elated when a “peach” is the first arrival, and tells his wife to cut the rate in order to get her as a guest. They turn down a fat man. but take in a very thin man and dyspeptic-looking old maid. While Silas is flirting with the pretty young lady, the thin boarder eats the old maid’s wig. When the frantic wife instructs Silas to feed the gluttonous boarder with a pitchfork full of hay, the human skeleton disposes of the hay and calmly picks his teeth with the pitchfork. Meantime, Billy has introduced Trixie to his sweetheart and girl friends. While they are talking, Trixie shows sudden alarm and crawls under the table. A second or two later, her husband walks up, asking Billy if he has seen his wife. Denying all knowledge of her, Billy waits till Mr. Brody has gone and then tells Trixie that she had better not be seen with them for a while. Before going, Trixie sees the last cartoon in the book, “A Sand Microbe Flirtation,” in which “Hubby” Microbe wipes up the beach with a flirtatious “dude” microbe who attempts to win Wifie’s affections. Telling Billy that a similar fate may befall him if he is not more careful, Eleanor promises to forgive and forget.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 July 2026.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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