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After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired. The police arrive and pursue the man, now covered in soot. He jumps onto the roof below his, landing two dandies into a trough of paint.
United States of America
Comedy
8 minutes
1908
D.W. Griffith
American Mutoscope & Biograph