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A Solax Celebration

Jan 1, 1912

0h 20m

★ 0.0

Overview

The good people of the Solax community realize that they have cause to make merry before the New Year because the Almighty has guided their breadwinning footsteps toward the Solax Studio's happy atmosphere, bank together like the big happy family they are, to give expression to their happiness in the form of a gift to the immediate cause of their good fortune and sunshine.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Solax Film Company

A Solax Celebration Trailers

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Cast

The Cause

Alice Guy-Blaché

A Relative But an Outsider

Herbert Blaché

The Megaphone

Edward Warren

On the Water-Wagon

Edgar Lewis

A Sob-Sister

Blanche Cornwall

The Villi-yan

Darwin Karr

The Chi-i-ld

Marian Swayne

Kid Pirate of Bogota

Billy Quirk

Merrymaker

Lee Beggs

The Solax Kid

Magda Foy

Merrymaker

Mary Foy

Merrymaker

Fanny Simpson

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