On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar that he sees himself as David, saving the entire school, sweetheart and rival included, from Goliath's sword.


There are silents that whisper, and silents that trumpet; Edgar's Sunday Courtship does both in the span of a church bell’s echo. Shot in the honey-gold twilight of 1924, this one-reel marvel—scarcely fifteen minutes yet denser than a Dickens installment—plays like a stained-glass kaleidoscope: childhood’s primary col...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

E. Mason Hopper

E. Mason Hopper
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" There are silents that whisper, and silents that trumpet; Edgar's Sunday Courtship does both in the span of a church bell’s echo. Shot in the honey-gold twilight of 1924, this one-reel marvel—scarcely fifteen minutes yet denser than a Dickens installment—plays like a stained-glass kaleidoscope: childhood’s primary colors fractured through the prism of adult memory. Booth Tarkington, the sardonic bard of American adolescence, supplies the scenario; director James C. McKay distills it into visual..."
Booth Tarkington
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