Marcel Perez -- here appearing in the United States under the name of "Tweedy" -- tries to pick up Dorothy Earle. She has him arrested, but once in the police station, she changes her mind.
The first reel is all that's known to survive of this comedy and it's a charming affair. The first few minutes of Perez' mashing is shot at a low angle which only shows the legs of the actors -- a technique he had used in 1914's AMOR PEDESTRE, when he was an Italian comic named Robinet.
Perez' screen comedies seem to stretch from about 1905 through his death in the mid-20s, but the details are sketchy, because he would change countries every few years, and names, marital status, country of origin.... and die a couple of years before sound came in, leading people to think he was four or five different people. It wasn't until ten years ago that Steve Massa noticed that they were all the same people. Now he and Ben Model have assembled a second dvd of eight often fragmentary but always worthwhile short comedies in which he merges the strands of European and American slapstick into something funny and uniquely his own.
The first reel is all that's known to survive of this comedy and it's a charming affair. The first few minutes of Perez' mashing is shot at a low angle which only shows the legs of the actors -- a technique he had used in 1914's AMOR PEDESTRE, when he was an Italian comic named Robinet.
Perez' screen comedies seem to stretch from about 1905 through his death in the mid-20s, but the details are sketchy, because he would change countries every few years, and names, marital status, country of origin.... and die a couple of years before sound came in, leading people to think he was four or five different people. It wasn't until ten years ago that Steve Massa noticed that they were all the same people. Now he and Ben Model have assembled a second dvd of eight often fragmentary but always worthwhile short comedies in which he merges the strands of European and American slapstick into something funny and uniquely his own.
