(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- 国家/地区: 美国
- 类型: 喜剧, 短片
- 上映日期: 1912-07-01
- 导演: N/A
- 编剧: N/A
- 语言: None | English
- 演员: N/A
- 片长: 分钟
- 奖项: N/A
- 又名: Jenks and His Motor Boat (美国) , Jenks and His Motor Boat
- 剧情简介: Abner Jenks, who has just purchased a motor boat, has his wife and sons, one seventeen and the other eight years of age, hasten to the wharf, where the graceful little craft is moored, and board her for a sail. When the family is seated Jenks goes forward with all the assurance of a trained "skipper," turns on the power, but the motor fails to respond. He then summons the young salesman, from whom he purchased the boat, and, after instructing Jenks, the salesman disembarks, and the Jenks family glide merrily over the surface of the water. Even though everything is working nicely, Mrs. Jenks is worried, and has grave doubts, as to the efficiency of her spouse as a sailorman, and demands that he take her ashore. In making the turn, Jenks exhibits great nervousness, and nearly swamps the boat. This increases her terror, and in spite of Jenks' assurance that there is no danger, she refuses to be pacified. Jenks finally succeeds in making a landing, where Mrs. Jenks and the boys leave the boat, as she insists that a trip with Jenks at the helm would be anything but safe. Angered at her doubts as to his ability to run the boat, Jenks starts off alone; only a few hundred yards are traversed, and he scarcely out of sight of the landing, when the motor again "goes dead." Jenks labors diligently to start it, but in vain, so the trim little craft drifts gracefully away. He goes forward, and makes an examination of the spark plug and igniter. Finding them all right, he next turns his attention to the gasoline tank. He removes the cap, and makes an effort to peer in, but cannot see whether there is sufficient gasoline, so he lights a match and holds it over the opening to illuminate the inside. The lighted end of the match drops into the tank and a terrific explosion follows. The boat is blown to atoms, and Jenks mounts heavenward. He is seen coming down head first. By a miracle he is only slightly injured and succeeds in swimming to the hull of the boat, from which he is rescued by a passing yacht. Broken in spirits, drenched to the skin and shivering with cold, he is landed at a neighboring boathouse, where a sign painter is employed painting a sign, which reads: "Motor Boat For Sale." Jenks goes to him silently, takes the brush from the startled painter's hands, paints the figure "2" before the word "Motor," adds an apostrophe and the letter "s," returns the brush, points in the direction of the river, and goes from the scene with a woebegone expression.
- IMDB:tt1326988
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