Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Director: John Emerson, USA, 1916, 28 Minutes, 16MM, silent Written by the legendary D.W. Griffith, this astonishing short features Douglas Fairbanks as an unabashed dope fiend (and, incidentally, world's greatest detective) Coke Ennyday. He's used to overcoming every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them. To help the police he discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with "Leaping Fishes",-and en lieu discovers the blackmail of a mysterious man who wants to marry the "fish blower" girl. Will Coke be able to free the girl? Contains what may be the first television shown in a movie. Internet Movie Database listing Cops
Directors: Edward Cline/Buster Keaton, USA, 1922, 24 Minutes, 16mm, silent An average Kenton two-reeler (i.e. sheer genius in every frame). Through a series of mistaken identities Buster winds up winds a load of furniture in the middle of a parade of policemen. An anarchist's bomb lands in his carriage. After lighting his cigarette with it, he tosses it into the ranks of police. When it explodes the police chase him all over town. Internet Movie Database listing Double Whoopee
Director: Lewis R. Foster, USA, 1929, 26 Minutes, 16mm, silent Stanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde Jean Harlow, and repeatedly escorting a haughty Prussian nobleman into an empty elevator shaft. Internet Movie Database listing The Film Federation has informed us that it is unable to find Film, one of the shorts that we were due to screen this evening, It its place we have.... Dough and Donuts
Director: Charlie Chaplin, USA, 33 Minutes, 16mm, silent Internet Movie Database listing
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