1923SILENT COMEDY SHORTS
SLAPSTICK COMEDY ABOUT A CLUMSY BUT INGENIOUS THEATRE MAINTENANCE MAN & BARBER. MAN IN NEED OF A MARRIAGE
LICENSE AND THE ANTICS THAT BEFALL THEM AND OTHERS. WITH PAUL PARROTT & MARIE MOSQUINI
LICENSE AND THE ANTICS THAT BEFALL THEM AND OTHERS. WITH PAUL PARROTT & MARIE MOSQUINI
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EXTERIOR OF BIJOU THEATRE FACADE. MAN PUTTING MARQUEE IN FRONT. WOMAN WITH FEATHER DUSTER AT TICKET WINDOW. WOMAN SWEEPS DUST INTO MAN'S FACE.
MAN HAS ALLERGIC REACTION - SNEEZE MAN SNEEZES AGAIN. WOMAN CLOSES DOORS. MAN LOOKS DISGUSTED. EXITS. |
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MS MAN EXITS CONFECTIONARY SHOP WITH COFFEE & DONUT CHECKS WATCH RUSHES OFF. MS. MAN STANDING BY FIRE ALARM. DRINKS HOT COFFEE AND THEN BREAKS GLASS FOR ALARM WS FIRE TRUCK EXITING FIRE HOUSE. MAN FALLS OFF MAN IS GREETED BY FIREMEN AT FIRE BOX. CHECKS WATCH WS MAN & FIRE CREW LEAVE ON FIRE TRUCK MCU MAN EATING DONUT RIDING ON BACK OF FIRE TRUCK MAN ON BACK OF FIRE TRUCK ARRIVES AT BIJOU THEATRE MS MAN READING PAPER ON BACK OF FIRE TRUCK FIREMEN LOOK ANXIOUSLY AT MAN "WHERE'S THE FIRE?"
MS MAN TAKES COIN FROM POCKET HANDS IT TO FIREMEN AND THANKS THEM FOR RIDE. FIREMEN REACT IN DISMAY AND FRUSTRATION FIREMEN GET ON TRUCK. DRIVE OFF. |
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MS MAN ARRIVES AT BIJOU THEATRE. GREETED BY ANOTHER MAN WHO LOOKS AT WATCH IN DISGUST (HE'S LATE)
MAN HANDS OTHER MAN HIS NEWSPAPER & COFFEE & WALKS INTO THEATRE MS OTHER MAN REACTS WITH ANGER AND CHASES FIRST MAN INTO THEATRE WEDDING SCENE. MAN LOOKS NERVOUS. TALL WOMAN LOOKS HAPPILY ANTICIPATORY. MAN WIPES SWEAT FROM BROW WHILE MINISTER READS BOOK MINISTER HAS BRIDE & GROOM JOIN HANDS MINISTER ASKS MAN FOR "LICENSE" MAN HAS NO LICENSE. WOMAN CRIES. MAN LOOKS SHEEPISH |
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WS MAN MAKES "MACHO" "GALLANT" GESTURES WITH HIS ARMS. GALLANTLY WALKS TO LEAVE ROOM AND SLAMS INTO CLOSED DOOR. WOMAN IS FEELING FAINT AND IS HELPED TO CHAIR.
MAN EXITING HOUSE. CAR WAITING AT CURB. MAN HOPS IN BACK OF CAR. RUMBLE SEAT. CAR SPEEDS OFF. RUMBLE SEAT FALLS OFF CAR INTO DUST MAN JUMPS AROUND EXASPERATED. MAN RUNS OFF MAN HAPHAZARDLY HANGING MOVIE POSTER ON FRONT OF THEATRE MAN COMES OUT OF THEATRE SHOUTING DIRECTIONS TO MAN HANGING POSTER MAN NAILS POSTER TO WALL. MOVES BACK TO INSPECT WORK. POSTER BEGINS TO FALL |
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WS MAN KICKS MAN HANGING POSTER IN SEAT OF PANTS (FRUSTRATION)
POSTER CONTINUALLY FALLING OFF WALL. MAN LOOKS FRUSTRATED. WS. MAN APPROACHES TICKET BOOTH WITH AMOROUS LOOK ON FACE (DELIGHT) MAN KNOCKS ON CLOSED TICKET BOOTH WINDOWS SEVERAL TIMES. LOOK OF AMOUROUS EUPHORIA ON FACE. WOMAN OPENS TICKET BOOTH WINDOWS. MAN KNOCKS ON WOMAN'S HEAD. LOST IN AMOUROUS THOUGHT. STARTLED MAN LOOKS AMOUROUSLY APOLOGETIC AT WOMAN AND GIVES WOMAN BOUQUET OF FLOWERS. SHEEPISHLY AMOUROUS. |
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MOVIE POSTER FALLS ON THEATRE MANAGER. WHO REACTS WITH DISGUST. RUNNING OVER TO MAN AT TICKET BOOTH AND KICKS OTHER MAN IN SEAT OF PANTS. MAN LOOKS BEHIND HIM & TURNS AROUND AS MAN GOES AROUND BOOTH AND THEN KICKS MAN FROM OTHER DIRECTION MAN RUSHING DOWN STREET IN HURRY WALKS INTO 2 MEN CARRYING LONG WOOD PLANK AND FALLS DOWN. SCENE REPEATED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. MAN FALLS DOWN AGAIN MAN RUSHES OFF DOWN STREET
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MAN APPROACHES TICKET BOOTH TAPS ON DOORS. WOMAN OPENS DOORS. MAN TIPS HAT. WOMAN BLOWS KISS AS MAN WALKS OFF HAPPILY MAN WITH PAIL & HAMMER APPROACHES STOREFRONT WINDOW WITH SMALL THEATRE FLIER. MAN NAILS FLIER TO GLASS, BREAKING GLASS. MAN COMES OUT OF STORE IN ANGRY DISMAY AND SCREAMS AT MAN NAILING POSTER TO WINDOW MAN PULLS POSTER OFF BROKEN GLASS & SCREAMS &
GESTURES ANGRILY AT MAN OFF CAMERA MAN WITH PAIL OF NAILS & HAMMER NAILS THEATRE FLIER TO HIGH WOODEN FENCE MAN ON OTHER SIDE OF FENCE REPAIRING CAR TIRE MAN NAILING THEATRE POSTERS DRIVES NAIL THROUGH THE WOODEN FENCE INTO TIRE THAN MAN IS REPAIRING ON OTHER SIDE OF FENCE MAN BENDING OVER. BUTT TO FENCE. INSPECTING LEAK IN TIRE. HAS NAIL DRIVEN INTO HIS BACKSIDE MAN CLUTCHES BACKSIDE IN DISMAY MAN LOOKS AROUND FENCE, SEES MAN WHO WAS NAILING NOTICES AND YELLS AT HIM AND KICKS HIM IN SEAT OF PANTS. MAN KICKS MAN BACK IN STOMACH KNOCKING HIM DOWN. MAN HAS STARTLED LOOK |
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WS MAN SHINING MAN'S SHOES AT SHOESHINE STAND ON SIDEWALK MAN WITH PAIL AND HAMMER APPROACHES.
MAN PASSING MAN WITH PAIL. MAN WITH PAIL SLAPS GLUE ON REAR END OF MAN PASSING AND SLAPS THEATRE POSTER ON HIS REAR END. MAN SHINING SHOES DUSTS OFF PATRON. MAN WITH PAIL SLOPS PAINT ON BACK OF SHOE SHINE PATRON AND AGAIN SLAPS ON THEATRE FLIER MAN PUTS THEATRE POSTERS ON SEATS OF SHOE SHINE STAND & GLUES EACH MAN'S BEHIND AS HE SITS LOOKING VERY INNOCENT |
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WS MAN APPROACHES LINE OF WAITING MEN & DITCHES HIS WAY TO FRONT OF LINE REPEATEDLY. EACH TIME BEING THROWN TO BACK OF LINE MAN WAITING BEHIND SHORT MAN IN TOP HAT PUSHES MAN TO GROUND WITH LOOK OF SATISFACTION. SHORT MAN RETALIATES BY HOOKING CAN AROUND BULLIE'S ANKLE AND TRIPPING HIM. SHORT MAN THEN ENTERS DOOR WHERE WAITING LINE WAS. SHORT MAN EXITS DOORWAY AND IS KICKED IN SEAT OF PANTS
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MAN WAITING AT SHOESHINE STAND WITH PAIL & BRUSH.
POLICEMAN APPROACHES AND MAN SNEAKILY TIRES TO GLUE COP'S BOTTOM. POLICEMAN CATCHES MAN & RUNS HIM OFF DOWN STREET. MAN STOPS. WALKS AROUND BACK OF COP AND WHILE DOING SO GLUES & PAPERS HIM |
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WS POLICEMAN STANDS AND WATCHES MAN WITH PAIL WALK OFF DOWN STREET UNKNOWINGLY WEARING GLUED THEATRE BILL ON HIS BACKSIDE WS ANOTHER COP APPROACHES WITH THEATRE BILL ON BACK & TEARS OFF BILL AND REPRIMANDS COP FOR STUPIDITY.
FIRES HIM AND WALKS OFF DOWN STREET DISPLAYING SEVERAL MOVIE BILLS ON HIS BACK (IRONY!) FIRED COP LOOKS ON IN DISBELIEF. CHASES OTHER COP TO TELL HIM WS MAN EXITS BUILDING WITH LICENSE AND IS KNOCKED OVER BY CAR EXITING DRIVEWAY. DAZED LOOK. SHOESHINE STAND. MAN SHINING SHOES LAUGHS AT PATRONS WITH MOVIE BILLS GLUED TO SEAT OF PANTS |
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MAN WASHING CAR. MAN APPROACHES WITH PAIL OF GLUE & BRUSH AND PROCEEDS TO POST BILLS ALL OVER CLEAN CAR. FOLLOWING MAN AROUND CAR AS HE SHINES CAR. MAN SHINING CAR IS OBLIVIOUS. MAN NOTICES THEATRE BILLS ALL OVER CAR AND LOOKS INCREDULOUSLY AT MAN WITH PAIL AND BRUSH MAN WITH BRUSH WALKS AWAY. AROUND BUILDING AND IS FOLLOWED BY MAN WHO WAS WASHING CAR. DISAPPEARS AROUND CORNER AND REAPPEARS AT DOOR BEHIND MAN WASHING CAR. SLOPS GLUE & PASTES ON HIS REAR
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SHOESHINE STAND AGAIN. SHOESHINE MAN LAUGHS AS HE NOTICES MOVIE BILL ON PATRON'S BEHIND WS MAN WITH BUNCH OF BANANAS SITS ON SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF BUILDING AND LOAN AND EATS BANANAS AND LEAVES PEELS ON GROUND CAUSING PEOPLE TO SLIP &
FALL ON THEIR BEHINDS AND LAND ON THEATRE BILLS SHOESHINE MAN LAUGHS AT PASSERS BY WHO ARE ALL GLUED WITH THEATRE BILLS |
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WS MAN ARRIVES BACK AT WEDDING SCENE WITH LICENSE.
MAN IS GLOATING & HAPPY. MINISTER INSPECTS LICENSE AND IN AMAZEMENT SEES THAT IT IS THEATRE BILL BOTH BRIDE & GROOM LOOK ON IN DISMAY. BRIDE CRIES AGAIN MAN TRIES TO CONSOLE BRIDE, MINISTER SEES THAT HE HAS LICENSE (MARRIAGE) GLUED TO THE SEAT OF HIS PANTS MINISTER PROCEEDS WITH CEREMONY. BRIDE & GROOM LOOK HAPPY |
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WS MAN SITS AT CORNER OF BUILDING EATING BANANAS TOSSING PEELS ON GROUND BESIDE HIM.
MAN WITH TRUNK ON DOLLY APPROACHES CORNER AND SLIPS ON BANANA PEEL FALLING ON GLUED THEATRE BILL. LOOKS AT MAN EATING BANANAS WITH ANGER |
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MAN CHASES MAN WITH THEATRE POSTER AROUND BUILDING BUT LOSES HIM. MAN TURNS AROUND AND SCOUNDREL IS STANDING DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM. SHRUGS FRUSTRATEDLY MAN RETURNS TO TRUNK AND DOLLY PICKS UP DOLLY AND WALKS AWAY PULLING TRUNK ON DOLLY BEHIND HIM.
HE SHRUGS FRUSTRATEDLY MAN RETURNS TO TRUNK AND DOLLY. PICKS UP DOLLY AND WALKS AWAY PULLING TRUNK ON DOLLY BEHIND HIM. OUT OF TRUNK POPS UP THE MAN WITH PAIL OF GLUE & THEATRE BILLS MAN WITH THEATRE BILLS GLUES THEATRE BILLS TO THE BEHINDS OF UNSUSPECTING PASSERS BY. |
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