- Title: VM-153A
- Summary: AT THE DENTIST'S:
- Description:00:01:04 - CU NAME ON DOOR "DR. PAYNE PAINLESS DENTIST" 00:01:18 - PATIENT WAITS IN DENTIST OFFICE WAITING ROOM. NURSE AT DESK. PATIENTS WALK IN AND ARE SEATED TO WAIT THEIR TURN TALKATIVE MAN EXPRESSES HIS DISTASTE FOR DENTISTS AND PAIN MORE AND MORE PATIENTS ARRIVE. FLAPPER FASHIONS 00:02:42 - FRIGHTENED WOMEN SCREAM AND JUMP UP ON CHAIR AFRAID OF A MOUSE. MAN TRIES TO CALM THEM DOWN. 00:02:59 - TIMID PATIENT COMES INTO DENTIST OFFICE. READS NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT SALE ON PULLING TEETH. TOOTH PULLED FOR $1.00 OR 3 TEETH PULLED FOR $5.00. 00:03:52 - CAVALIER MAN PICKS UP DROPPED HANDKERCHIEF, GIVES TO THANKFUL WOMAN. JEALOUS HUSBAND INTERVENES. "YOU MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS" HE DROPS THE HANKIE SO THE HUSBAND CAN PICK IT UP, HUSBAND THREATENS TO HIT HIM 00:04:24 - DENTIST COMES OUT, SEES ALL THE PATIENTS "ALL RIGHT WHO'S NEXT?, HURRY PLEASE" WANTS TO GO AND PLAY GOLF & NOT PULL TEETH 00:04:45 - FEMALE PATIENT AT THE DENTIST GETS IN CHAIR. FLAPPER FASHIONS DENTIST PUTS BIB ON PATIENT, TELLS HER TO OPEN WIDE, LOOKS INTO HER MOUTH, SHE MOANS IN PAIN 00:05:16 - WOMAN IN WAITING ROOM HEARS HER MOANING, GETS UP AND LEAVES DENTIST OFFICE 00:05:21 - DENTIST TRIES TO COMFORT PATIENT "IT DOESN'T HURT AT ALL" SHE MOANS AGAIN AND ANOTHER WOMAN LEAVES THE OFFICE. 00:05:32 - DENTIST FINISHES UP WITH PATIENT, WIPES PATIENT'S MOUTH. SHE GETS UP & LEAVES 00:05:43 - DENTIST CALLS "NEXT PLEASE" NEXT PATIENT COMES INTO DENTIST'S OFFICE, WANTS DENTIST TO PULL ALL HIS WIFE'S TEETH BECAUSE "SHE TALKS TOO MUCH & HER TONGUE IS TOO BIG FOR HER MOUTH" DENTIST, ARMS AKIMBO, LAUGHS. DENTIST ASSURES HIM THERE WILL BE NO PAIN 00:06:52 - DOCTOR GRABS A SKULL FROM SHELF AS PATIENT HOLDING HIS MOUTH IN PAIN ENTERS. MAN MOANING IN PAIN UNTIL HE SEES THE SKULL & GETS FRIGHTENED, BUT THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE SO HE SITS IN THE CHAIR 00:07:55 - QUACK DOCTOR. DENTIST BRUSHES SHAVING CREAM ON PATIENT SAYS HE'S SOFTENING UP HIS GUMS. 00:09:19 - DOCTOR EXAMINES PATIENT'S TEETH. "OPEN WIDE". "I DON'T THINK I'VE SEEN TEETH AS BAD AS YOURS". DENTIST CLEANS AN INSTRUMENT ON PATIENT'S TIE. 00:10:45 - FRIGHTENED PATIENT AT THE DENTIST AFRAID TO HAVE TOOTH PULLED PLAYS CAT AND MOUSE WITH THE DENTIST 00:14:13 - DENTIST WRESTLES UNWILLING PATIENT TO THE GROUND TRYING TO PULL HIS TOOTH 00:15:01 - PATIENT WALKS IN INTERRUPTS THE DENTIST WHILE HE'S PULLING ANOTHER PATIENT'S TOOTH. GRABS PATIENT'S LEGS & HELPS GET BACK IN THE CHAIR. 00:15:44 - DENTIST PULLS MAN'S TOOTH HE SCREAMS IN AGONY. SAYS THE DENTIST LIED TO HIM, PATIENT SITS IN DENTIST'S OFFICE HOLDING HIS MOUTH IN PAIN 00:16:06 - ARROGANT MAN ENTERS DENTIST'S OFFICE, PUSHES MAN OUT OF THE WAY SO HE CAN SIT IN THE CHAIR. MAKES SURE THE DENTIST KNOWS HE CAN'T STAND ANY PAIN. DENTIST STRAPS PATIENT INTO HIS CHAIR WIFE FLIRTS WITH OTHER PATIENT. 00:17:09 - DENTIST PULLS TOOTH AFTER TOOTH AS THE OTHER TWO LAUGH 00:17:35 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-153A