His Ivory Dome

Released October 30, 1916, His Ivory Dome is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

An advertisement for the film appeared in the December 9, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World.

As of the writing of this article (November 28, 2017), no prints of this film are known to survive. If you have any information about the film, please contact us.

A synopsis of the film is available in the December 16, 1916, issue of Motography on page 1355. The text was transcribed by Noreen O’Connor in 2017:

His Ivory Dome — (One Reel) — Black Diamond Comedy — December 11. — This, the sixth Black Diamond comedy, contains much trick photography. The story tells of Black Hand Bill and one of his gang for some mysterious reason are pursuing a fair damsel apparently in an attempt to kidnap her. Bill and his man pass by unconcernedly, but as the cop looks around the corner to see where they have gone, they hit him on the head and knock him out. They then seize the girl, throw her into an automobile and drive off. Then follows a most exciting chase, in which Bravo, the cop, pursues them, first in the auto, then afoot. They run to a high building and run right up the side of it. Bravo follows on the motorcycle. They run across the roof. He follows them. They make a wild leap across to the top of another high building, but the motorcycle makes the leap too and pursues them on to the second roof. Bill seizes a big parasol from an artist who is sketching on the roof, and holding fast to the girl, he and his assistant, using it for a parachute, jump off the roof and sail down toward the street. Bravo seeing this drives the motorcycle down the circular stairway of the office building and pursues them down the street. They float down the street directly over the pursuing cop, finally drifting across the street and landing in front of a tough saloon, which they enter. Bravo collides with a fence, is thrown over it and lands in front of the saloon! At last he rescues the girl, then finds it all a dream.