Look Who it Was Random video

Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape

2,569 views · Published 5 May 2016 · 13:50 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2016 · People & Blogs

Watch on YouTube

This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.   

 Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Production Country: United States | Year: 1912 | Production Company: Essanay Film Manufacturing | FLM9314 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - www.eyefilm.nl

While looking for work, Broncho Billy meets a girl and falls in love with her. Broncho is then accused of horse theft by a jealous lover of the girl. When he is about to be hanged, Broncho’s beloved girl comes to his rescue. 

Cast: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Brinsley Shaw, Vedah Bertram, Arthur Mackley.

Broncho Billy ontmoet tijdens zijn zoektocht naar werk een meisje waar hij verliefd op wordt. Vervolgens wordt Broncho door een jaloerse medeminnaar beschuldigd van paardendiefstal. Vlak voordat hij opgehangen zal worden komt het meisje hem redden.

This film is from the Jean Desmet Collection at Eye. Jean Desmet (1875-1956) was one of the leading cinema operators and film distributors in the Netherlands from 1907 – 1916. The Jean Desmet Collection at Eye has more than 900 films, and is included UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/collections/film/film-files/de-jaren-twintig-en-dertig/file-desmet

Interested in licensing? For more information about this film and other items from our collection please contact [email protected] 
phone +31 (0)20 5891 426 mobile +31 (0)6 4118 9635 
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/film-sales

More from this channel