A Thrilling Rescue by Uncle Mun (1912)

• 67%
• 1912
• C.J. Williams
• Fred I. Nankivel
• Edna Hammel
• Harry Beaumont

The story opens with Mr. Nankivel's studio in the country. We find him busy drawing a series of sketches. These become animated and go through a performance which mystifies one and provokes irresistible laughter at the same time. While thus engaged he receives a note from the Golf Club urging him to disguise as Uncle Mun and play a game of golf with a would-be champion. He soon arrives at the Club House as Uncle Mun, accompanied by Dot, his mascot, and after the usual preliminaries the game begins. Those who play golf, as well as those who do not, will become interested and laugh to their heart's content at Uncle Mun's impossible shots. While the game is at its height the caddie discovers a house on fire in the village. Uncle Mun, an enthusiastic member of the Volunteer Fire Department, stops the play abruptly and answers the call of duty. To give the alarm he drives one golf ball after another in rapid succession toward the bell tower, a mile away, striking the bell with the accuracy of a rifle shot. The ringing bell quickly brings out the volunteers. Uncle Mun joins them and they rush to the burning building. There, to their horror, a small child is seen struggling amid flame and smoke in an upper window. For a moment rescue seems impossible, but Uncle Mun, always equal to any occasion, bounds from a bed spring to the upper story and clasping the child in his arms, he leaps from the burning window- to the ground, right side up, with the agility of a cat, and smilingly turns the rescued tot over to its panic-stricken mother. In spite of the intense excitement Uncle Mun is applauded for his most wonderful and heroic act. The fire is soon subdued and as usual, the hose bursts and the crowd is drenched.