Una tragedia al cinematografo

A jealous man tracks his wife to the local movie theater and has the manager stop the show to tell the audience that the husband is there with a gun and knows all.

The print that is posted on Youtube is a nice, tinted one; the acting is fine, but the movie is too long for a one-joke comedy. This is a common problem with performances of a fixed length. I once attended a program of performances that were each supposed to be eight minutes in length and what happened each time is that they had four minutes of material that they stretched or had twenty minutes that they chopped.

I sympathize. Whenever I got handed a college assignment that was supposed to be of a set length, I either failed to have enough material or wrote something three times as long as required. However, my sympathy does not make this better.