1924SILENT COMEDY SHORTS
SILENT COMEDY, SLAPSTICK, COMEDY OF ERRORS, PHYSICAL COMEDY, ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN. WITHSID SMITH, CLIFF BOWES, VIRGINIA VANCE
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YOUNG BUSINESS MAN (SIDNEY SMITH) SITS ON HIS FLOOR, WEARING A PERIOD BOWLER HAT, SURROUNDED BY SUITCASES AND READING A BANK STATEMENT.
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CU BANK BOOK. MAN ASSESSES HIS WEEKLY FINANCIAL BUDGET.
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PICKS UP SUITCASES AND SNEAKS DOWN HALLWAY OF APARTMENT BUILDING, ATTEMPTING TO GO UNNOTICED.
POLICE OFFICER STANDS AT THE END OF HALLWAY WITH ANGRY LANDLADY. |
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LANDLADY SPEAKS TO A POLICE OFFICER ABOUT BAD TENANT.
TENANT TRIES TO SNEAK PAST THE OFFICER. PANTS ARE COMICALLY OVER-STUFFED WITH WORDLY POSESSIONS. SKIPPING OUT ON RENT |
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SNEAKS AROUND OUTSIDE BUILDING, PEEKING AROUND CORNERS MAKING SURE THE "COAST IS CLEAR". STARTS TO TAKE OFF LAYERS AND LAYERS OF CLOTHING HE HAS BUNDLED HIMSELF IN.
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SNEAKY LANDLADY PEERS OUT A GROUND FLOOR WINDOW AND REMOVES THE ESCAPED TENANTS SUITCASES FROM HIS POSESSION. PULLS THE SUITCASES THROUGH WINDOW. SLAMS THE WINDOW SHUT ON MAN'S HEAD AS HE PEERS INTO BUILDING.
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POLICE OFFICER INSPECTS A SUSPICIOUS MAN LOITERING OUTSIDE OF AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. CHASE OF SUBJECT.
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RAG TOP AUTOMOBILE, PASSING THE CHASE SCENE, WITH SUSPECT HANGING OFF THE BACK OF THE CAR. TIPS HIS HAT AT HIS GREAT ESCAPE.
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PANICKED AND REBELLIOUS YOUNG MAN RIDES PEDDLE BIKE THROUGH HIS HOUSE. PICKS UP A TRAY FROM A SERVANT WAITER BEFORE PEDDLING OUT ONTO THE STREET.
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PEDDLING DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET CALMLY EATING AS HE TRAVELS.
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RICH YOUNG MAN AND HIS ATTRACTIVE LADY FRIEND TRAVEL IN STYLE DOWN A BOULEVARD.
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GROUP OF YOUNG MEN GAMBLE IN THE STREET. DISPERSES QUICKLY AS THE BOSS ARRIVES FOR WORK. YOUNG MEN JUMPING INTO THEIR FLEET OF TRANSPORTING TRUCKS AND DRIVING THEM OUT OF THE LOT.
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ANGRY BOSS QUESTIONS A FOREMAN ABOUT AN IDLE TRUCK IN THE LOT.
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TRUCK DRIVER PULLS HIS LOAD OUT OF AN INDUSTRIAL LOT TO MAKE A DELIVERY.
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YOUNG MAN ON A BICYCLE CATCHES RIDE BEHIND CAR. HOLDS ONTO THE CAR FOR A RIDE.
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CU NEWSPAPER ARTICLE WRITTEN ABOUT PERPETUALLY LATE EMPLOYEES.
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YOUNG MAN READING A NEWSPAPER. LAUGHS AT THE ARTICLE.
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CLOCK HIGH UP IN A CLOCK TOWER.
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YOUNG MAN OVERTLY LITTERING BY THROWING HIS NEWSPAPER HIGH INTO THE AIR. PEDDLES AWAY IN A BIG HURRY, FURIOUSLY DOWN A SUBURBAN STREET. CAR TRAVELLING ON SAME ROAD BLOCK THE MANS WAY AS HE ATTEMPTS TO PEDDLE PAST.
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CU 1920s SPEEDOMETER AND MILEAGE COUNTER. READS 43,599 MILES.
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OUTRAGED CYCLIST PULLS UP BESIDE A MOTORIST AND YELLS AT HIM THROUGH AN OPEN SIDE WINDOW. CYCLIST SPEEDS BY MOTORIST AT COMICALLY UNLIKELY SPEEDS.
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YOUNG MAN DRESSES FOR WORK ON THE JOB SITE.
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ANGRY FOREMAN YELLS AT A LATE EMPLOYEE ON JOB SITE.
TWO MEN PUT UP THEIR FIST AS IF TO FIGHT. ONE MAN ACCIDENTALLY JUMPS ON A CROWD OF BY-STANDERS, MISSING HIS FIGHT TARGET. |
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ANGRY BOSS FIRES AN EMPLOYEE
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DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE KICKS A FELLOW WORKER IN BUM.
ANGERED CO-WORKER LANDS ON THE GROUND. |
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YOUNG REBELLIOUS MAN HOLDS ON TO THE BACK OF CAR AND GRABS FREE RIDE ON HIS PEDDLE BIKE. FLIRTS WITH ATTRACTIVE WOMAN RIDING IN THE VEHICLE. WOMAN'S HUSBAND GETS ANGRY AND HITS THE YOUNG MAN WITH HIS HAT TO GET RID OF HIM.
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TRAFFIC COP DIRECTS CARS AT A BUSY INTERSECTION.
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YOUNG MAN RIDES HIS PEDDLE BIKE LIKE A MAD MAN, AT GREAT SPEEDS, ON AN OPEN ROAD.
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CYCLIST COLLIDES WITH A PARKED VEHICLE AT INTERSECTION. THE YOUNG RIDER ENDS UP INSIDE CAR.
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WELL-TO-DO COUPLE HELP AN INJURED YOUNG MAN TO FRONT DOOR OF HIS HOUSE AFTER AN ACCIDENT. GOOD SAMARITANS.
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HELP AN INJURED YOUNG MAN TO BED AFTER AN ACCIDENT.
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INJURED YOUNG MAN DRAMATICALLY EXAGGERATES INJURY TO PREVENT HIS ATTRACTIVE YOUNG RESCUER FROM LEAVING ROOM.WRITHES IN HIS BED AS IF IN PAIN. WOMAN ATTEMPTS TO TIE THE YOUNG VICTIM TO BED USING BED SHEETS TO PREVENT HIM FROM WRITHING WILDLY.
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DOCTOR ARRIVES ON A HOUSE CALL TO TREAT A PATIENT.
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1920s INDUSTRIAL WORK TRUCK TRAVELLING DOWN TOWN ROAD. NO THRUWAY, ROADBLOCK.
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TRUCK DRIVER BACKS UP TO AVOID ROAD BLOCK. LONG PIECE OF DANGEROUS CARGO ON THE BACK OF TRUCK COMICALLY PUSHES ITS WAY THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL WINDOW.
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SICK MAN IN HIS BED GETS CARRIED OUTSIDE THROUGH BEDROOM WINDOW ON THE BACK OF FLATBED TRUCK.
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CU UNKNOWING DOCTOR AND PATIENT BEING COMICALLY TRANSPORTED DOWN A STREET ON THE BACK OF LOAD OF INDUSTRIAL CARGO. DOCTOR IS ACCIDENTALLY BUMPED OFF BACK OF THE TRUCK WHEN IT HITS HOLE IN THE ROAD.
DRIVER TRANSPORT TRUCK CONTINUES ON HIS JOURNEY UP DIRT ROAD. |
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DRIVER OF CARGO TRUCK COMES TO THE END OF DIRT ROAD, UNDER CONSTRUCTION, ROAD CLOSED. SHOCKED PATIENT LYING IN HIS BED ON THE BACK OF CARGO TRUCK, LOOKS AROUND IN DISBELIEF AT HIS DANGEROUS PREDICAMENT. AS
CARGO TRUCK REVERSES, MAN IN HIS BED DANGLES DANGEROUSLY HIGH ABOVE CLIFF SIDE. SMALL CITY CAN BE SEEN FAR BELOW. |
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TRANSPORT CARGO OPERATOR, REALIZING THE HUMAN CARGO HE HAS ON THE BACK OF HIS TRUCK, ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE THE MAN HANGING OVER THE SIDE OF A CLIFF. AS TRUCK OPERATOR CLIMBS TO THE MANS RESCUE, LOAD TURNS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO TOPPLING OVER CLIFF SIDE.
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PANICKED TRUCK DRIVER ATTEMPTS TO BALANCE LOAD OF HUMAN CARGO AND BRING THE MAN TO SAFETY.
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LONE FIGURE, SILOUHETTED IN BLACK, RUNS PANICKED UP DIRT ROAD. THE MAN WAVES HIS BRIEFCASE IN AIR AS HE RUNS.
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HYPERACTIVE TRUCK DRIVER ATTEMPTS TO SECURE HIS UNBALANCED TRUCK LOAD BY MANUALLY TURNING FLATBED TRUCK'S "Z" LEVER. OPERATOR LOOSES CONTROL AND IS COMICALLY FLIPPED AROUND AND AROUND IN CIRCLES.
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SECOND MAN TO THE RESCUE LOOSES HIS GRASP OF VICTIM AND FALLS TO THE GROUND LANDING IN LARGE PUDDLE OF MUDDY WATER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CLIFF.
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ALLIGATOR-CROCODILE JUMPS FROM A POND OF MUDDY WATER WITH A DOCTORS BAG IN THE GRASP OF ITS TEETH.
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TWO MEN STRUGGLE TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM CARGO DANGLING OVER THE SIDE OF A CLIFF. BOTH MEN LOOSE THEIR GRIPS AND HOLD ONTO BED SHEETS AS THEY DANGLE HIGH ABOVE THE GROUND. SILENT COMEDIAN CLIFF BOWES HOLDS ONTO COMEDIAN SIDNEY SMITH'S SUSPENDERS AS THE TWO MEN HANG SUSPENDED IN THE AIR. WS OF THE TWO MEN DANGLING, WOODED LAND CAN BE SEEN FAR BELOW THEM.
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BED SHEET THE TWO MEN HANG ON FOR DEAR LIFE, SNAPS, AND THEY FALL TO PUDDLE OF MUDDY WATER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CLIFF.
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MAN JUMPS OUT OF A PUDDLE OF MUDDY WATER WITH ALLIGATOR ATTACHED TO HIS BACK SIDE. THE TWO MEN RUN DOWN A DUSTY DIRT ROAD. THE CROCODILE STILL ATTACHED TO THE COMEDIANS BUTT.
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