page:  = Home Made <unk> Pie = 
   
   Home Made <unk> Pie is a 1910 American silent short comedy produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film is a comedy of circumstances , in which the Gale family is going to host a dinner . The focus of the humor is in a <unk> <unk> that brandy is added to in an attempt to make it more <unk> , but three people each add brandy to the <unk> . Everyone becomes <unk> upon eating the <unk> , including the family cat , and the film concludes . No cast or staff credits for this film are known . The film was released on September 27 , 1910 , to mixed reviews in trade publications . Reviewers mentioned that the film was too long and it was unbelievable that one <unk> split eight ways would be able to impact everyone . The film is presumed lost . 
   
   = = Plot = = 
   
   Though the film is presumed lost , a synopsis survives in The Moving Picture World from September 24 , 1910 . It states : " Life in a country town is often tedious and <unk> , and were it not for the little <unk> and <unk> the <unk> are constantly given , existence in some localities would be a very dreary thing indeed . So the time honored get @-@ <unk> of the small town are an established feature to the social calendar ; they are just as much a matter of necessity and as such have come to stay . The <unk> thought well of this established feature . They made it a <unk> occasion for themselves as well as their guests . They were hardly an overly wealthy family , and their table was never notable for an <unk> of the good things of life , but whenever they gave a dinner they cast all thoughts of economy to the country winds and worked to the one end that their guests have a pleasant time . " 
   " On the night before such an event neither <unk> , <unk> , or <unk> Gale could get those minutes ' solid sleep for thought that they might have overlooked some essential in the guests ' comfort . At the first <unk> of the rooster they would come hopping down to the kitchen to get the <unk> into shape . So little wonder that on occasion of the dinner here pictured - when the prize dish was a splendid <unk> <unk> <unk> - the <unk> were ever looking after the need of the said <unk> . First <unk> Gale would <unk> to the table whereupon it sat in solemn state , and give it a stir ; then <unk> Gale would <unk> over and give it a stir ; finally <unk> Gale would have to come over and honor it likewise . Then arrived the guests . The Minister and the Mrs. Minister , they were , and some neighbors . While she was receiving them the recollection came to <unk> Gale that the beloved <unk> <unk> had not received its <unk> . Off she speeds to a <unk> of whiskey in the kitchen . She <unk> into the <unk> the right proportion of liquor , and goes back to her guests . Then <unk> Gale remembers that the <unk> has not been flavored . He , too , <unk> himself and a moment later is found pouring whiskey into the sacred <unk> . No sooner has he ceased and returned to his guest than <unk> Gale , who has just remembered about the forgotten <unk> , rushes in and makes for the whiskey . She <unk> ' the right proportion ' in , too . " 
   
   = = Production = = 
   
   The writer of the scenario is unknown , but it was most likely Lloyd Lonergan . He was an experienced <unk> employed by The New York Evening World while writing scripts for the Thanhouser productions . The film director is unknown , but it may have been Barry O 'Neil . Film historian Q. David Bowers does not attribute a cameraman for this production , but at least two possible candidates exist . Blair Smith was the first cameraman of the Thanhouser company , but he was soon joined by Carl Louis Gregory who had years of experience as a still and motion picture photographer . The role of the cameraman was <unk> in 1910 productions . The cast credits are unknown , but many 1910 Thanhouser productions are fragmentary . In late 1910 , the Thanhouser company released a list of the important personalities in their films . The list includes <unk> <unk> , <unk> D. Barnes , Frank H. Crane , Irene Crane , Marie <unk> , <unk> <unk> , Martin J. Faust , Thomas Fortune , George Middleton , Grace Moore , John W. Noble , Anna <unk> , Mrs. George Walters . A surviving film still gives the possibility of identifying eight actors . 
   
   = = Release and reception = = 
   
   The single reel comedy , approximately 1 @,@ 000 feet long , was released on September 27 , 1910 . The film likely had a wide national release , with advertisements in theaters known in Indiana , Kansas , Wisconsin , and Pennsylvania . The film would also be shown in Vancouver , Canada and was met with praise by the audience at the Province Theatre . In 1917 , years after the film 's release , the film was approved without censorship by the Pennsylvania State Board of <unk> of Moving Pictures . 
   The The Moving Picture World reviewer found the subject to be too long , but did not find it to be a fault . The reviewer states , " A domestic comedy with a different flavor . In fact , with a <unk> <unk> for a basis the flavor comes to resemble brandy very strongly by the time that the cook , the maid and the mistress of the house and her daughter have added the proper proportion of <unk> , neither one knowing that the others have done likewise . The humor in this piece centers around this <unk> . What happened to the guests who <unk> of it certainly draws upon the imagination . Imagine eight people , not to speak of the cat , getting drunk on the brandy in one <unk> <unk> ! ... We do not single out this subject as being more evidently padded than others shown on the screen this week . <unk> as well as <unk> were guilty and it is time that the manufacturers realize the importance of the scenario end of matters . The <unk> <unk> episode was well done , which is the faint praise that we do not like to <unk> out to anyone . " Walton of The Moving Picture News was not <unk> by the plot and stated , " To me the last scene had no humor . It was only the necessary ending to the beginning . True humor does not <unk> from <unk> . " The New York Dramatic Mirror stated , " This is the old story of too many cooks , and it is quite funny after the first scenes are out of the way . The early part of the film takes too much time with trivial details leading up to the final situation . ... A weak point in the story is the fact that the <unk> is cut into eight small pieces , making it difficult to believe in its remarkable power . Two <unk> would have been as easy to make as one and would have been more convincing . The character parts are all well taken , although the cook would have been better if she had not seized so many opportunities to talk directly at the camera . " 
   
   