Excellent compilation of silent comedies. It includes following fragments:
0:40-4:07 A Snub Pollard film set in a movie theatre, with a projectionist falling asleep.
4:07-7:38 A French comedy about a jealous husband chasing his wife while pushing a wheelchair. A rare gem from 1904.
7:38-9:04 "Mabel's Dramatic Career" (1913).
9:04-9:56 A superb montage of Keystone Kops. Great chases and cliffhangers.
9:56-11:09 A montage of Bathing Beauties.
11:20-16:06 "The Adventurer" (1917).
16:06-22:33 "The Cure" (1917).
23:02-31:53 Fragments of a feature film, "Wild And Woolly" (1917, J.Emerson). Douglas Fairbanks dreams of being a cowboy. He goes West and saves a town from
Indians.
31:53-33:10 Brief scenes from Sennett and Roach comedies.
33:10-37:00 "Spot Cash" (1921, Charley Chase, Roach). Snub Pollard is a grocer facing stiff competition from a former employee.
37:00-39:35 An Al St.John comedy with a cliffhanger sequence.
39:35-41:35 Two comedies starring Oliver Hardy. In the first, he eats sausages. In the second (produced by H.Roach in 1926), he tries to bathe his son.
41:35-44:29 "Kill Or Cure" (1923).
44:29-49:19 Ben Turpin has a spring on his butt. A dog plays checkers, drinks and smokes. Kewpie Morgan co-stars.
49:19-53:35 "All Night Long" (1924).
53:35-58:08] A lion disrupts a party. Great cliffhanger scene with the lion "driving" a police van.
58:08-1:02:04 Snub Pollard is a president, whose functions mostly involve ducking bombs.
1:03:04-1:07:21 Two Harry Houdini films. In the first, he liberates himself from chains using his toes. In the second, "A Man From Beyond" (1921), he saves
his girl from drowning in Niagara Falls.
1:07:21-1:10:49 Scenes from three adventure serials starring Pearl White: "Lightning Raider" (1919), "The Perils Of Pauline" (1914) and a third one with a Chinese
bandit played by Warner Oland.
1:10:49-1:16:25 A series of exciting climaxes from adventure serials.
1:16:25-1:25:54 "Play Safe" (1926).
1:26:04-1:28:57 Snub Pollard is a hotel clerk.
1:28:57-1:30:49 Snub Pollard tries to elope. His car crashes through walls.
1:30:49-1:32:40 Charley Chase is caught in the rain.
