Howard Kramer
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posted May 12, 2009 01:25 PM
Produced by Keystone Films - Regular 8mm Silent Film - Released by Blackhawk Films
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915) is a short comedy-documentary film both starring and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. Producer Mack Sennett brought Arbuckle and Normand to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, also known as the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair. They turned the cameras around, using the Fair crowds as extras and the Fair itself as a free background. Arbuckle and Normand clowned around and interacted with the Fair's surprised attendees. The film ends with a nighttime view of the fair, including a scene with the "Captive Aeroplane", an early amusement ride. This is a wonderful time capsule of Mabel and Fatty at the height of their fame guiding us through the sights of the San Francisco World's Fair of 1915. See Fatty try to impress opera singer Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink with his "warbling". See him almost trip as he and Mabel are walking down some steps with Mayor James Rolph, Jr. See Mabel slap him for almost closing the Iron Maiden (which has spikes on the back of the door) on her! We also see a ship that brought some prisoners from England to Australia with heavy chains on them and a nighttime view of the fairgrounds including that of the 1915 building entrance. Definitely for documentary and silent movie buffs. Regular 8mm silent - Released by Blackhawk Films on a full 200 foot reel (in metal can) Like new condition!
$8.00 postage paid (USA only) or will trade for 16mm sound copy in any playable condition of:
The Beverly Hillbillies (TV - black & white episodes only)
Gomer Pyle (TV)
Castle films "Chimp" adventures
Any Laurel & Hardy
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[ May 12, 2009, 03:57 PM: Message edited by: Howard Kramer ]
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