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- [Narrator] Turn back with
us now, turn back to a time
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when the movies were much younger
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and like all youthful things
full of fun and high spirits.
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Down that long dusty road
the clowns are coming,
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the great voiceless,
irreplaceable clowns who
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rock the world with laughter.
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Most of them are gone but they
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have left their shadows behind.
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So come back with us now,
come back to that time
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of wonderful nonsense
called the Roaring '20s.
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Come back to the Golden Age of Comedy.
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(nostalgic music)
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Behind that curtain the
world is 30 years younger
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and an unsmiling king presides
over his loony domain.
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A rugged gray maned king,
who has already ridden
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the escalator of success from boiler maker
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to chief of the first laugh factory.
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The father of American
screen comedy Max Sennett.
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In 1924 when these only
slightly exaggerated scenes
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were taken the Sennett
Studios were already in their
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second decade of inspired madness.
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Their specialty was the
delightfully improbable,
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like this lion in the office.
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Their gags were completely visual,
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a form of wit that has all
but disappeared from the land.
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But one which experts now agree is perhaps
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the most imaginative and
enduring comedy of all.
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The lion has fled the
scene and the king himself
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has long since retired,
but movie fans still fondly
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remember such daring
innovations as the Max Sennett
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Bathing Beauties in whose
rants many a star was born,
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and who did so much to
liberate the American woman
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from the Mother Hubbard bathing suits.
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Sennett Studies were place
of wonderful illusion,
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where a daring rider could
gallop out of the west
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without moving as much as
an inch on the old back lot.
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Indeed without evening
bothering about a horse.
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And far from trying to
hide their bag of tricks
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the Sennett technicians made
them part of the comedy.
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Pride of the lot was the only
revolving stage in Hollywood,
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a monstrous merry-go-round and treadmill,
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which kept the scenery
moving behind the comedian.
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Hurricane gusts from the
wind machine sent bits
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of paper flying past the
camera to help create
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the appearance of swift
and violent motion.
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The director is Vernon
Dent, the dapper man about
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the stages with the roving
eye is Charlie Murray.
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But in Sennett comedies the
pursuit of beauty was often
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interrupted by the appearance
of the pursuers wife,
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usually played by Louise Carver.
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The result with a busy
studio itself as a backdrop
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is the kind of slapstick which
proves that motion pictures
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are meant to move and that
action speaks louder than words.
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(comical music)
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Now Sennett kids one of his
own money saving customs,
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stealing shots of actual happenings
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to cut into his comedies.
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Get a load of that peekaboo lens.
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(cheerful music)
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It was perfectly natural for the camera
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to doze off with the cameraman.
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And who could deny such
things might really
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happen when they happened
right before your eyes.
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On the firing line the
neighborhood youngster,
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on the receiving end, Charlie Murray.
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Sennett gags were created
by the maddest squad
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of gag men in entertainment history.
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Each day they were locked
collectively into a
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penthouse office, deprived of heavy food
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and strong drink and guarded, cajoled
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and brow beaten by the old master himself.
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Here selected from the output of a decade
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are some of the results.
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In "The Hollywood Kid"
Charlie Murray, having failed
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to obtain a confession from
the small fry is forced
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to spank them all, well almost all.
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In "Wandering Willies"
Billy Bevan innocently
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prepares to enjoy a
delicious bowl of oyster stew
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and ends up in a desperate
battle with a wild oyster.
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(jovial music)
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In "Muscle-Bound Music" in
a memorable boarding house
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concert Billy Bevan and Davy Morris
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combine rock'n'roll with rippin' tares.
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In "Wall Street Blues"
dashing Billy Bevan seems
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to heed the call of the open road but alas
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fates fickle finger has flicked
him into a different role,
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the office janitor.
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Billy's boss is Andy
Clyde, who took a boomer
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in bloomers just when the
girl started wearing slacks.
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Meanwhile Billy is cleaning
up with his new super powered
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torpedo vacuum cleaner,
originally designed to
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pick fat ladies off massage tables.
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(comical music)
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With each tick of the
ticker Andy gets sicker,
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now in comes a slicker.
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Soft hearted Jack Richardson
and his toddy Vernon Dent
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watch Andy play with a poison bottle,
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and make side bets as to how long
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it will take him to take it.
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Well that kills that bet.
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In pops another well
wisher, Edgar Kennedy,
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one of the seven original Keystone Cops.
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Later to win fame and fortune
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as a master of the slow burn.
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It's a stick up.
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Billy is marched in and
soft hearted Jack makes
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tracks for outer space, a perfect escape,
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except for one small miscalculation.
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Jack forgot they were on the 20th floor.
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Vernon is reminded of his mother's advice,
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if you have a bad companion, drop him.
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(harrowing music)
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In "Circus Today" the background
is the tent show circus,
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which like comedy itself
has almost vanished
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from the American scene.
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Billy Bevan plays a
dimwitted daredevil in the
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pudgy clutches of Kewpie Morgan.
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The stunt for this afternoon is a low dive
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into a trial size swimming pool.
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It's a cinch thinks Billy
but he doesn't reckon
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with the calamitous cupidity
of the callous Kewpie.
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Basking in the spotlight
the blindfolded Billy
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is ready to go, but Kewpie has
to make one minor adjustment.
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(comical music)
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Now Kewpie's mad because Billy busted
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his brand new swimming pool.
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So Kewpie runs after Billy,
Billy's pal the elephant
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runs after Kewpie and
in a few split seconds
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we're off with chariots,
circus wagons, charging horses,
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toppling acrobats, panting
pachyderms and roaring lions
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on one of those crazy
careening pursuits which became
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a trademark of the Golden
Age of Comedy, the chase.
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(fast paced music)
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(horses neigh)
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(fast paced music)
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(tigers growl)
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(mischievous music)
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In the Max Sennett comedies extra's had
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to know how to take it.
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(lion growls)
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(screams and shouts)
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Madam Stella, the circus queen is dressing
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for the matinee when her
maid suddenly gives notice.
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"Marie!", calls Madam Stella.
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"Come powder my back."
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"My Marie, you're rough."
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This plucky young actress
giving a perfectly
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controlled performance
with a lion as her costar
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is Madeline Hurlock, who
was later to marry the
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Pulitzer Prize playwright
Robert Emmet Sherwood.
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(lion growls)
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So long Mrs Sherwood.
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Max Sennett's arch rival was Hal Roach,
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who late in the '20s
unveiled an immortal team,
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
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Ironically as individual
comedians Laurel and Hardy
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had been around since
the movie's early days.
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Laurel had once starred but
had been reduced to featured
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player, Hardy had never
risen above supporting roles.
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Then in 1927 they were
accidentally paired and almost
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overnight became the movie's
most popular comedy team.
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Stan and Oliver were
never to find much favor
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with the critics but
the public loved them.
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When they performed an act
as simple as climbing a pole
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to read a street sign in the dark
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gales of laughter swept round the world.
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(jovial music)
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Not before or since has anyone
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scaled a wall like Oliver Hardy.
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(bricks crash)
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"The Second Hundred Years"
in which they played
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jailbirds with a long time
to roost was one of the
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earliest of the Laurel and Hardy comedies.
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Hardy had not as yet
quite acquired the full
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roundness of physic that was
to characterize him later.
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(mischievous music)
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A couple of visiting
painters knock off for lunch
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and an idea creeps into
Laurel and Hardy's minds.
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They'll turn their
coats, swipe the brushes
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and pretend their painters too,
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before the guards discover
they're gone, gone, gone.
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(mischievous music)
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Just as freedom seems
completely within their grasp
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Stan and Oliver become aware
of a pair of suspicious eyes.
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The chips are down, their
futures hang in the balance.
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They must prove that
they're really painters
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and prove it they do.
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(mischievous music)
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(screams)
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In "We Slip Up" Laurel
and Hardy starred as
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hen pecked husbands making an elaborate
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withdrawal from their suspicious wives.
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The boys have just explained
that they're merely
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going to the picture show
and of course the wives
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believe their every word.
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Downtown two young ladies
are getting a shoe shine when
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fate and an electric fan blow
them into a great adventure.
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No bonnet remains under a car for long,
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not with gallant Oliver
there to retrieve it.
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Naturally it was no
more than hospitable for
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the girls to invite the boys up to dry up
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and in these cozy
surroundings the spirit of
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fun playfully raises its tousled head.
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(buzzing)
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(gurgling)
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Go on there Hardy, be bohemian.
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(comical music)
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Olive is soothing his
ruffled hostess when,
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you guessed it, in pops her boyfriend,
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an unforgiving character named Nasty Nate.
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(foreboding music)
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In this emotion charged moment
who should come prancing
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down the street but those
human bloodhounds, the wives.
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(mischievous music)
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"The Battle of the Century"
demonstrated a rule of
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natural science, if someone slips.
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The pie in the face had been
originated by Max Sennett
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in the earliest days of
his keystone comedies.
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By 1928, when this film was made,
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produced a pie throwing.
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("Pop Goes The Weasel")
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Musicians decked out
like the spirit of '76
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pipe and drum a congressional
candidate into the kind of
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dusty, sleepy, Midwestern
town that has totally
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disappeared since these
scenes were some 35 years ago.
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Here satirizing a backwoods
campaigner is a man of
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a type that has alas all
but disappeared as well,
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the cowboy who grew into an
actor, humorist and philosopher
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and who became at last an
American legend, Will Rogers.
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In this period Will was
still fresh from his triumphs
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in the "Ziegfeld Follies",
he kidded congressmen,
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presidents and kings and
never offended a soul.
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His wit contained no insult or malice,
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yet it dissolved pretension
with the cold light of logic
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and in its simplicity
spoke the language of all.
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(crowd cheers and applauds)
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In a Hal Roach comedy of 1923
called "Uncensored Movies"
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Will Rogers portrayed a
small time lecturer exposing
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the behind the scenes
secrets of Hollywood before
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a popeyed gullible audience in some
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remote and forgotten hamlet.
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This give Will a wonderful opportunity to
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parody the biggest stars
of the far off time
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and the most successful
of then current pictures.
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Smack into Sherwood
Forest jumps Robin Hood,
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as played by the immortal
Douglas Fairbanks,
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whose played in turn by the immortal Will.
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The Fairbanks version of
Robin Hood was sweeping the
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country and crowds everywhere
laughed at this timely spoof.
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But no one laughed
louder than Will Rogers'
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good friend Douglas Fairbanks himself.
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(cheerful music)
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The merry men dance back into the forest
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and for the intrepid Robin
game to the heartstrings,
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only one stunt remains, getting out of his
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safety belt and down
from that big bad tree.
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In reality of course Fairbanks
was a great athlete and
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Rogers, the ex cowboy, was a
pretty fair acrobat himself.
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But that just made this
little scene all the funnier.
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In the '20s a wide brimmed
hat and checkered shirt
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meant Tom Mix, a misunderstood
hero who was forever
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being chased by the Sheriff's posse.
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Tom was brave, nonchalant, true blue
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and, oh yes, game to the heartstrings.
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(horse neighs)
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The occasional blemishes
on the screen during
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this short sequence are
not spots before your eyes,
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the original negative of
this 35 year old classic
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was already partially decomposed
when it was reprinted.
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To preserve for posterity what is probably
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the last existing record of Will Roger's
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considerable prowess as a trick rider.
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(gunshots bang)
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Tom Mix swings this away.
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The posse swings that a way and heads for
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Crouse Myers Canyon, the bottom of it.
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At this point Tom would
have ridden into the sunset,
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if it hadn't been the
middle of the afternoon.
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Behind that wall of feet lurks Will Rogers
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as Ford Sterling, chief of
the original Keystone Cops.
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While law and order snooze
Metaphor the maid is
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reading Three Weeks when Mad Morris puts
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the snatch on her purse.
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In those days you hired
a nursemaid to tickle
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and a dog to mind the baby.
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Mad Morris is gaining so Metaphor
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puts in a call to the police.
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To pad his part the
old time comedian could
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produce a whole dictionary of motions
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just to answer the phone.
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Here in reasonable facsimile
come the Keystone Cops,
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led by their intrepid
commander brave, swift
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and gallant and you named
it, game to the heartstrings.
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In this little episode we come full circle
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as Rogers kids Sterling,
Roach kids Sennett
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and comedy kids comedy.
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(boisterous music)
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When the Keystone Cops were on the loose
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it was no fit time for
man, beast or bakery shop.
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(boisterous music)
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The plot thickens as it
develops that Mad Morris
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is the ringleader of a band
of desperate Tin Lizzies.
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(gunshots boom)
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The Lizzies wheel about,
in a twinkling the pursuers
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become the pursued and across
a forlorn forgotten field
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on a day so long ago Will
Rogers runs away into memory.
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(soft music)
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Out trots the track team
of fair Sunnydale College
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and in the ranks a girl
not to be forgotten,
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one destined for stardom, Carol Lombard.
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Carol would rather powder than train
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and this disturbs her
coach Daphne Pollard.
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College films were popular in the '20s,
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when everybody from baby to
grandpop wanted to collegiate.
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The big race is announced,
proud Sunnydale's hopes
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are pinned on Carol.
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Daphne holds aloft the starting gun.
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(gunshot bangs)
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(frantic music)
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It was a clean start, Carol running easily
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forges to the head of this
tight pack of 18 year olds.
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Fanny brings up the rear,
Carol seems to have it won,
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but wait, she's pausing, breaking stride.
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Muriel of Pritmore is going past.
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Muriel of Pritmore's in the lead
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and it's Muriel of Pritmore to win.
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Carol place and plenty to show.
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Daphne lectures Carol on
school spirit, which in the
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movies at least is all
that college's ever taught.
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Now the final event of the afternoon
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with the score tied 50 to 50.
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Carol's in the lineup with
a chance to redeem herself.
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The coach's pleadings ring in her ears,
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the will to win swells in her breast.
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The love for lovely old
Sunnydale beats in her heart.
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Her boyfriend cheers in
the stands but even so
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Carol's having a rough
time taking those hurdles.
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(frantic music)
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Now with the hurdles
behind Carol's coming fast.
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She's past the pack, she's
neck and neck with the leader.
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They're matching stride for stride.
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Carol's edging forward and
she's over the line, the winner!
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Oh what a glorious day for Sunndydale.
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Behind the celebrants a
chain forms to grow ever
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longer and whirl ever faster.
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But all things must go
and soon it will be gone
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as the age of flappers
and flaming youth is gone.
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And a girl Jane Peters,
who became Carol Lombard
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and who loved life so well
and died so tragically.
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(uplifting music)
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The lights of Broadway glow
in the descending night,
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the Broadway of 1929.
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A cab pulls up before a swank hotel.
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Two doormen named Laurel
and Hardy bobble about,
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but look inside that cab,
perhaps you recognize the girl?
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This bit player is to
become one of the most
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publicized women in the world.
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Her platinum hair, exquisite
figure and breezy manner
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are to create a new kind of
movie heroine, the first of a
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glamorous line that includes
today's Marilyn Monroe.
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Her name, Jean Harlow.
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Her role in this Hal Roach
comedy called "Double Whoopee"
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was small but it was a
kind of role you couldn't
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help noticing and she filled it so well.
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It provided Jean Harlow
with her first real break.
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(quirky music)
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Though our subject is
comedy grow serious we must,
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for we are about to meet the
most versatile of actors,
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a man of a thousand roles,
all of them different.
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And a thousand faces,
all of them the same.
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A man who could make Barrymore blush
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and von Stroheim grow pale.
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Behind that final towel lurks Ben Turpin.
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Here Turpin plays one of his
most famous characterizations,
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that at of Rodney St Clair,
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the international
playboy and heartbreaker.
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In real life however Ben
was staunchly conservative.
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He bought an apartment house
and though his salary rose
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to $1,500 a week he got up
early each morning to act
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as janitor before riding
the street car to work.
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At this time a scene
from "The Merry Widow"
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was shocking America, in
it John Gilbert made love
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while blindfolded musicians played.
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And if John Gilbert could have
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blindfolded musicians so could Ben Turpin.
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Lulled by the sweet strains
Rodney St Clair glides
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into a dance called "My Revere",
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for music has charms to
soothe the savage beast.
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Later across town an
irate husband thinks that
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worm Rodney has been nibbling
at the apple of his eye.
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"He'll not come around here
again.", the husband mutters.
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Is he always to escape scot free,
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that mad irresistible
adventurer Rodney St Clair?
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Glockenspielgudge was the
kind of a town where a man
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could fall into trouble in his sleep.
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(snores)
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The scourge of this clapboard
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metropolis was Mobrey the
Ombre and his outlaw band.
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Mobrey feared but one man
and here he comes racing to
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the rescue, Perona Pete,
the pint sized peril.
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Formerly a teller in a piggy bank.
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Perona rode tall in the
saddle by standing up.
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(gunshots bang)
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Movie fans don't be fooled,
behind that clever disguise
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is Ben Turpin as the
traditional western hero.
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Gary Cooper, Gene Audrey, Roy Rogers,
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Ben taught them all they know.
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Girls get out the handkerchiefs.
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In his next role Ben
plays a mere man willing
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to sacrifice all for a woman.
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Innocent Ben tells Slippery
Harry Griffin that he'll
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confess to save little Nell,
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yet Slippery's the real culprit.
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In charges Ben, "I did it!", he shouts,
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"How much is missing, 10, 20?"
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"The cash register is $50,000
short.", say's the sergeant.
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"And you look guilty to me!"
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Ben turns to Nell, "Scram you
crummy crook.", she whimpers.
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It's the unkindest cut of all.
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"You'll hang for this!",
growls the Sergeant
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and by George so he does.
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While Ben's nursing a
sore throat in creeps
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Slippery to steal Nell
like he stole the dough.
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"Come with me to Hoboken.", he mutters.
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But the police have overheard,
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in the good old days justice was swift.
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"You'll honeymoon in Hoboken,", says Ben,
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"but you'll honeymoon with me."
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Now an episode of clear cultural delight,
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Ben Turpin as mythology's
great god Pan, come to earth
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to prance through woodline
glade with a mortal woman.
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As the old wives tell it,
this dance can only take place
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when St Swithun's Day
follows Michaelmas Monday
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in the green hills of Grunt.
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What grace, what poetry,
what avant garde surrealism.
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Ah, back to grim reality
and Ben Turpin on the run
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as Fearless Noodnick, the movie stuntman.
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At his heels is an insistent camera crew
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which wants him for a
scene they're shooting.
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Fearless is 39 years old.
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If he keeps on running
he may someday be 40.
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"Wow!", says Fearless,
"I've fallen into heaven."
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But the camera crew has him
and heaven was never like this.
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Fearless is giving a sterling
performance when director
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Harry Griffin learns
there's a real fire in town.
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In the early days film
companies would rush to
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the scenes of actual fires,
floods, earthquakes and parades,
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push their actors into the action
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and write stories to fit later.
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Here by the way is another
for the memory books,
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a horse drawn fire engine.
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(bell rings)
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Fearless is getting lonely when along come
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a playful cat and dog to keep him company.
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(dramatic music)
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(cat cries)
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Off go cat and dog to caper elsewhere
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but Ben's staying put.
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Luckily there's an air
hose just within reach.
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Meanwhile arrive at the fire the director
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gives Irene Lentz, as the leading lady,
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a prop baby and tells her to
run into the smoke and flames.
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The firemen make trouble,
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"The nerve of them bums!",
yells the director,
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"They'll spoil the shot!"
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And so as he sinks into the deep
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we bid a fond farewell to Ben Turpin.
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On a hot crowded summer
Sunday Laurel and Hardy
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pull out of a line of
cars into what some film
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historians believe is one of the funniest
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short comedies ever made.
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It was produced by Hal Roach in 1928.
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It's supervising director was Leo McCarey,
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who went on to win Academy Awards for
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"The Awful Truth" and "Going My Way."
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It's photographer was
George Stevens, who turned
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director himself and
created "Shane" and "Giant."
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It's title was "Two Tars."
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Yes that's Edgar Kennedy.
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Stan and Oliver as sailors on shore leave
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have taken up with fast
women in slow traffic.
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We needn't say more for like most great
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silent comedies "Two
Tars" speaks for itself.
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(engines rev and clank)
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(humorous music)
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The old time movie
makers knew how to begin
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with a simple believable situation,
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then build and build until the whole world
493
00:47:42,873 --> 00:47:46,207
seemed caught in a
special kind of insanity.
494
00:47:46,207 --> 00:47:49,108
This one is building like
an atomic chain reaction.
495
00:47:49,108 --> 00:47:51,689
Notice the way that Laurel
and Hardy fever spreads
496
00:47:51,689 --> 00:47:53,512
to the second line of cars,
497
00:47:53,512 --> 00:47:57,273
where pipsqueak battles with truck driver.
498
00:47:57,273 --> 00:48:00,023
(humorous music)
499
00:48:48,462 --> 00:48:50,526
In steps a leader of men,
500
00:48:50,526 --> 00:48:53,276
"Come on, move on boys, move on!"
501
00:48:54,766 --> 00:48:57,516
(humorous music)
502
00:50:14,905 --> 00:50:17,274
The crowd, hot and impatient, demands,
503
00:50:17,274 --> 00:50:20,576
"Get that junk off the highway!"
504
00:50:20,576 --> 00:50:23,159
(crowd shouts)
505
00:50:26,634 --> 00:50:30,801
Upon this Sunday scene
happens a perplexed policeman.
506
00:50:38,277 --> 00:50:42,444
One look at the uniform and
the girls silently melt away.
507
00:50:43,637 --> 00:50:46,554
(foreboding music)
508
00:50:56,741 --> 00:51:00,117
(whistle blows)
509
00:51:00,117 --> 00:51:01,936
"Who started this?!", asked the cop.
510
00:51:01,936 --> 00:51:03,877
"The sailors did!", answers the crowd.
511
00:51:03,877 --> 00:51:06,917
"Uh huh," say's the cop, "a
couple of trouble makers.
512
00:51:06,917 --> 00:51:08,434
"You birds are under arrest,
513
00:51:08,434 --> 00:51:12,117
"now the rest of you move out of here!"
514
00:51:12,117 --> 00:51:15,034
(foreboding music)
515
00:51:30,064 --> 00:51:32,277
The little devils.
516
00:51:32,277 --> 00:51:34,944
(comical music)
517
00:52:09,116 --> 00:52:11,145
"Alright wise guys," says the law,
518
00:52:11,145 --> 00:52:13,532
"Get going, and no funny business.
519
00:52:13,532 --> 00:52:16,791
"I'll be right behind yah see.
520
00:52:16,791 --> 00:52:18,541
"Follow them sailors!
521
00:52:19,676 --> 00:52:22,343
(comical music)
522
00:52:28,544 --> 00:52:30,748
"Follow them sailors!
523
00:52:30,748 --> 00:52:33,415
(comical music)
524
00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:44,450
"Everybody, follow them sailors!
525
00:52:50,775 --> 00:52:52,608
"Follow them sailors!"
526
00:52:57,895 --> 00:53:00,062
"Sorry officer, she blew."
527
00:53:03,362 --> 00:53:06,112
(dramatic music)
528
00:53:49,134 --> 00:53:50,984
A train hurtles through the night,
529
00:53:50,984 --> 00:53:53,582
carrying in an upper
berth one of the funniest
530
00:53:53,582 --> 00:53:57,278
yet certainly the saddest
of all screen comedians,
531
00:53:57,278 --> 00:53:59,945
the unforgettable Harry Langdon.
532
00:54:03,742 --> 00:54:06,380
Below his new bride gets set for slumber,
533
00:54:06,380 --> 00:54:09,096
for Harry's on his honeymoon,
an event which apparently
534
00:54:09,096 --> 00:54:11,356
hasn't in the least ruffled the infantile
535
00:54:11,356 --> 00:54:14,199
innocence of this most unique of clowns,
536
00:54:14,199 --> 00:54:18,366
who one critic said had the
face of a fiendish baby.
537
00:54:19,496 --> 00:54:22,079
(quirky music)
538
00:54:37,502 --> 00:54:39,720
Harry faces up to the
perils of the Pullman
539
00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,053
with a savoir faire of a three year old
540
00:54:42,053 --> 00:54:45,150
cast adrift in a hostile kindergarten.
541
00:54:45,150 --> 00:54:47,368
Langdon's style was completely intuitive.
542
00:54:47,368 --> 00:54:49,598
In real life he was almost as child like
543
00:54:49,598 --> 00:54:51,646
as the character he portrayed,
544
00:54:51,646 --> 00:54:54,702
and he rarely knew the plot
of the picture he was making.
545
00:54:54,702 --> 00:54:57,736
Yet today, long after his
passing, he is remembered
546
00:54:57,736 --> 00:55:00,339
as one of the four
greatest comedians in the
547
00:55:00,339 --> 00:55:03,719
60 year history of the motion picture.
548
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,302
(quirky music)
549
00:55:29,637 --> 00:55:32,154
His bride's thirsty, the little darlin'
550
00:55:32,154 --> 00:55:34,258
and so begins the next chapter of the
551
00:55:34,258 --> 00:55:37,258
horrible honeymoon hazards of Harry.
552
00:55:39,738 --> 00:55:42,321
(quirky music)
553
00:55:52,898 --> 00:55:55,077
Skittering before the
approaching conductor
554
00:55:55,077 --> 00:55:57,237
Harry opens the front or windy end
555
00:55:57,237 --> 00:56:01,616
of the old type Pullman
and looses a hurricane.
556
00:56:01,616 --> 00:56:04,283
(wind whistles)
557
00:56:15,189 --> 00:56:18,816
Comes the dawn, the passengers
gather themselves together
558
00:56:18,816 --> 00:56:21,690
like shipwrecked castaways
on a storm swept isle
559
00:56:21,690 --> 00:56:24,933
and Harry's off to the
train dressing room.
560
00:56:24,933 --> 00:56:27,360
While his colleagues race
through elaborate gags
561
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,320
at breakneck pace,
Langdon moved hesitantly
562
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,338
through situations that
were both simple and human.
563
00:56:33,338 --> 00:56:35,817
Of him it has been said
that he could do more with
564
00:56:35,817 --> 00:56:38,816
less than any other comedian.
565
00:56:38,816 --> 00:56:41,399
(quirky music)
566
00:57:53,055 --> 00:57:55,935
Harry could make returning
to his seat an achievement
567
00:57:55,935 --> 00:57:59,602
roughly comparable to
scaling Mount Everest.
568
00:58:00,500 --> 00:58:03,083
(quirky music)
569
00:58:13,644 --> 00:58:16,468
In comes the Sheriff with
the meanest, toughest,
570
00:58:16,468 --> 00:58:21,455
prisoner in all the land, Hardman
Hank, arrested for murder.
571
00:58:21,455 --> 00:58:23,748
Langdon looks at him with
a gaze of a youngster
572
00:58:23,748 --> 00:58:26,808
confronted by the boogie man.
573
00:58:26,808 --> 00:58:29,558
(dramatic music)
574
00:58:49,618 --> 00:58:51,878
On a handcar alongside the speeding train
575
00:58:51,878 --> 00:58:56,045
races Hardman's pal in a
daring plot to help him escape.
576
00:59:01,549 --> 00:59:04,370
"Hold onto this bird," shouts the Sherrif,
577
00:59:04,370 --> 00:59:07,725
"I'll run out and nab his buddy."
578
00:59:07,725 --> 00:59:10,308
(quirky music)
579
00:59:17,769 --> 00:59:20,722
"Don't worry palsy," confides Hardman,
580
00:59:20,722 --> 00:59:23,151
"Everything's taken care of,
581
00:59:23,151 --> 00:59:26,734
"we'll blast our way
out of this together."
582
00:59:27,931 --> 00:59:30,598
(gunshots bang)
583
00:59:53,119 --> 00:59:56,677
This short film was made
by Harry Langdon in 1924
584
00:59:56,677 --> 00:59:59,978
when he was at the threshold
of international success.
585
00:59:59,978 --> 01:00:03,301
Within five years his comedy
instincts seemed to fail
586
01:00:03,301 --> 01:00:06,318
and he rode a rough toboggan to obscurity,
587
01:00:06,318 --> 01:00:08,818
heartbreak and an early death.
588
01:00:09,701 --> 01:00:11,882
A close associate summed it up.
589
01:00:11,882 --> 01:00:14,335
"The little fellow was
the most tragic figure
590
01:00:14,335 --> 01:00:17,502
"I ever came across in show business."
591
01:00:24,041 --> 01:00:26,383
In the Golden Age a happy source of humor
592
01:00:26,383 --> 01:00:28,042
was the animal comedy.
593
01:00:28,042 --> 01:00:31,418
This form of fun lives on today
only in the movie cartoon,
594
01:00:31,418 --> 01:00:33,962
where because it is far less realistic
595
01:00:33,962 --> 01:00:36,295
it is also far less amusing.
596
01:00:39,246 --> 01:00:42,778
One of the most hilarious
animal episodes ever put on film
597
01:00:42,778 --> 01:00:46,623
was this nightmarish encounter
between a tail tied lion
598
01:00:46,623 --> 01:00:51,513
and apron string tied family
man named Charlie Chase.
599
01:00:51,513 --> 01:00:54,180
(comical music)
600
01:00:59,541 --> 01:01:01,958
(lion roars)
601
01:01:03,493 --> 01:01:06,160
(comical music)
602
01:01:29,122 --> 01:01:31,539
(soft music)
603
01:01:33,838 --> 01:01:36,382
Clyde ran out of human
companions for checkers,
604
01:01:36,382 --> 01:01:39,204
he called on the family
cat and he also showed
605
01:01:39,204 --> 01:01:42,582
why cats aren't used more
often for this purpose,
606
01:01:42,582 --> 01:01:44,415
they're too darn good.
607
01:01:45,561 --> 01:01:48,144
(upbeat music)
608
01:02:31,981 --> 01:02:35,564
"That lame cat, I'll
cut down on her milk."
609
01:02:39,859 --> 01:02:42,547
Cameo, the Max Sennett dog,
never played poker with the
610
01:02:42,547 --> 01:02:46,312
boys but he was the canine
kibitzer in all of Canarsie.
611
01:02:46,312 --> 01:02:48,931
Slippery Harry Griffin,
the villain of this piece
612
01:02:48,931 --> 01:02:51,603
looks at his hand and
discovers he's just an ace
613
01:02:51,603 --> 01:02:53,565
away from a royal flush.
614
01:02:53,565 --> 01:02:55,797
Of course Slippery could draw for it
615
01:02:55,797 --> 01:02:57,379
but that would be the hard way.
616
01:02:57,379 --> 01:03:01,546
And besides he just happens
to have on in his shoe.
617
01:03:05,064 --> 01:03:07,405
Billy Bevan, whose Cameo's
master, tell his dog
618
01:03:07,405 --> 01:03:10,365
to sneak a hound's eye
look at Griffin's cards.
619
01:03:10,365 --> 01:03:12,561
Slippery Harry's slick and quick
620
01:03:12,561 --> 01:03:15,725
but Cameo's slicker and quicker.
621
01:03:15,725 --> 01:03:18,392
(comical music)
622
01:03:28,364 --> 01:03:29,531
Nix, nix boss.
623
01:03:31,738 --> 01:03:32,571
Nix, nix.
624
01:03:38,392 --> 01:03:41,892
(unintelligible whispers)
625
01:03:44,739 --> 01:03:47,175
Griffin's being outwitted
by an adversary with
626
01:03:47,175 --> 01:03:50,163
short hair, big spots
and a sawed off tail.
627
01:03:50,163 --> 01:03:52,643
"Get that mutt Mata Hari out of here!",
628
01:03:52,643 --> 01:03:55,541
snarls the outraged Slippery.
629
01:03:55,541 --> 01:03:59,291
Under the table Cameo
works his wicked wiles.
630
01:04:00,867 --> 01:04:03,534
(comical music)
631
01:04:10,488 --> 01:04:14,488
It's the switcheroo, the
old army game, doggone.
632
01:04:15,347 --> 01:04:18,014
(comical music)
633
01:04:32,733 --> 01:04:34,851
Slippery smiles with that smug security
634
01:04:34,851 --> 01:04:38,541
that comes only to he who
holds the top hand in the deck.
635
01:04:38,541 --> 01:04:42,029
All bets are down and that's
every buck in the joint.
636
01:04:42,029 --> 01:04:45,612
"You go first.", say's
the gallant Griffin.
637
01:04:47,603 --> 01:04:50,120
"Just a minute," say's Slippery,
638
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,925
"10 of diamonds, jack of
diamonds, queen of diamonds,
639
01:04:52,925 --> 01:04:56,092
"king of diamonds and three of clubs?"
640
01:05:02,125 --> 01:05:05,404
Kewpie Morgan, whose Billy's
silent partner, counts the take
641
01:05:05,404 --> 01:05:09,901
but Hades hath no fury
like the cheater cheated.
642
01:05:09,901 --> 01:05:11,053
Wham!
643
01:05:11,053 --> 01:05:13,704
Kewpie saves the money and
Cameo tries to save Billy
644
01:05:13,704 --> 01:05:16,871
by putting the bite on Slippery Harry.
645
01:05:18,787 --> 01:05:23,464
There goes Billy to rendezvous
by the old hook rug.
646
01:05:23,464 --> 01:05:26,464
(mischievous music)
647
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:32,621
"Ah, there you are!", says Harry,
648
01:05:32,621 --> 01:05:35,960
"Just in time for another facial massage."
649
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,040
Cameo appraises the situation.
650
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:40,237
His teeth are tired and
it's hard to get a grip
651
01:05:40,237 --> 01:05:42,349
on Giffin's shiny pants,
he's got to get help.
652
01:05:42,349 --> 01:05:44,682
(dog barks)
653
01:05:50,707 --> 01:05:53,624
When Cameo digs into a matter
pity the petulant policeman,
654
01:05:53,624 --> 01:05:56,168
dirt's getting splattered
all over a member of
655
01:05:56,168 --> 01:06:00,085
that illustrious core
called the Keystone Cops.
656
01:06:01,443 --> 01:06:03,085
The law's plum tuckered out
657
01:06:03,085 --> 01:06:06,680
but Cameo knows how to apply
whiplash of icy indignity
658
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:08,930
and the chase is really on.
659
01:06:16,460 --> 01:06:18,941
One cop mightn't be enough muses Cameo,
660
01:06:18,941 --> 01:06:21,608
I'd better bring reinforcements.
661
01:06:26,755 --> 01:06:29,521
In the '20's, when this
film was made, a dog called
662
01:06:29,521 --> 01:06:33,000
Rin Tin Tin was one of the
most successful stars in film.
663
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,168
Little Cameo was never to
reach the heights of movie fame
664
01:06:36,168 --> 01:06:39,386
but he could do everything that
Rinny could and maybe more.
665
01:06:39,386 --> 01:06:43,553
Why Rin Tin Tin never
snatched a skirt in his life.
666
01:06:45,203 --> 01:06:47,953
(dramatic music)
667
01:07:01,421 --> 01:07:03,838
(bell rings)
668
01:07:05,965 --> 01:07:09,298
(unintelligible shouts)
669
01:07:15,519 --> 01:07:18,269
(dramatic music)
670
01:07:26,061 --> 01:07:29,597
Cameo's brought help alright,
the entire police force,
671
01:07:29,597 --> 01:07:32,847
but this rescue's worse than the peril.
672
01:07:35,763 --> 01:07:40,301
Billy decides he'd rather
be punched than pinched.
673
01:07:40,301 --> 01:07:43,011
Kewpie drops the bag
and out flies the money,
674
01:07:43,011 --> 01:07:45,112
smack onto the back of a passing turtle on
675
01:07:45,112 --> 01:07:47,069
it's way to Schlapcole's Lake.
676
01:07:47,069 --> 01:07:49,309
Of course Kewpie knows from
nothing that don't cough
677
01:07:49,309 --> 01:07:51,729
but Cameo has spotted the whole thing.
678
01:07:51,729 --> 01:07:53,724
He'll save that bundle of fives before
679
01:07:53,724 --> 01:07:56,744
Abe Lincoln gets his beard wet.
680
01:07:56,744 --> 01:07:59,077
(dog barks)
681
01:08:09,181 --> 01:08:11,741
Nearby policeman relax
from pounding their beat
682
01:08:11,741 --> 01:08:13,805
by beating their feet and who should
683
01:08:13,805 --> 01:08:17,138
pop onto the track but the unholy three.
684
01:08:23,107 --> 01:08:25,774
(gunshots bang)
685
01:08:41,201 --> 01:08:44,282
The boys decide to make
up and divide the dough,
686
01:08:44,282 --> 01:08:47,685
which by now may be floating
in a bowl of turtle soup.
687
01:08:47,685 --> 01:08:51,183
But no, three slickers turned
suckers stare in horror
688
01:08:51,183 --> 01:08:54,970
as little Cameo writes the
perfect end to this story,
689
01:08:54,970 --> 01:08:59,137
by proving that maybe the
world should go to the dogs.
690
01:09:05,653 --> 01:09:08,574
Down that inevitable street,
which became so familiar
691
01:09:08,574 --> 01:09:11,535
to movie goers it seemed
to be their own hometown,
692
01:09:11,535 --> 01:09:14,151
strolled two past the have musicians,
693
01:09:14,151 --> 01:09:16,215
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
694
01:09:16,215 --> 01:09:18,741
Put Laurel and Hardy on a simple street
695
01:09:18,741 --> 01:09:20,741
and anything can happen.
696
01:09:21,759 --> 01:09:24,342
(quirky music)
697
01:09:42,257 --> 01:09:45,658
Like almost all the Laurel
and Hardys this film
698
01:09:45,658 --> 01:09:48,239
was produced by Hal
Roach, who started with
699
01:09:48,239 --> 01:09:51,596
Universal Pictures as an
inexperienced actor in 1913.
700
01:09:51,596 --> 01:09:53,919
By the next year in
those fast moving times
701
01:09:53,919 --> 01:09:56,565
Roach owned his own
company, which continues
702
01:09:56,565 --> 01:09:59,775
in the family down to the present day.
703
01:09:59,775 --> 01:10:02,358
(quirky music)
704
01:10:34,721 --> 01:10:38,471
"Now watch where you're
going.", says Oliver.
705
01:10:39,470 --> 01:10:42,053
(quirky music)
706
01:11:23,155 --> 01:11:24,738
Aha, a music lover.
707
01:11:36,243 --> 01:11:38,296
The disappointments of
the day prove too much
708
01:11:38,296 --> 01:11:42,046
for poor Oliver and it's
all Stanley's fault.
709
01:11:43,459 --> 01:11:46,042
(quirky music)
710
01:12:20,184 --> 01:12:21,017
Flat.
711
01:12:22,323 --> 01:12:24,906
(quirky music)
712
01:15:22,995 --> 01:15:27,162
The curtain lowers, the clowns
depart, hail and farewell.
713
01:15:28,223 --> 01:15:30,698
We will never see their like again.
714
01:15:30,698 --> 01:15:33,031
This is the end of a memory.
715
01:15:34,554 --> 01:15:37,304
(sweeping music)
53652
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