while attending Manual Arts High School. The studio's founder, Walter Montague, was nonetheless impressed by Capra and offered him $75 to direct a one-reel silent film. Capra, with the help of a cameraman, made the film, Fultah Fisher's Boarding House, in two days and cast it with amateurs. It was made for $1,700 and was sold to Pathé Exchange for $3,500.

critics noted that it was free from stunts, mannerisms, camera angles and Hollywood tricks. It had to be free from them as Capra never had time to learn anything of them. - Alva Johnston