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Marcel Perez
- Robinet
- (as Marcel Fabre)
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- TriviaReleased in the US as a split reel along with the documentary Launching the First Italian Dreadnought (1910).
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The Set-Up
Just why Robinet wants to be a jockey is never revealed, but this is a split-reel comedy, so we don't have time for such subtleties as motivation. In order to get down to the right weight, he goes through a course of rigorous training by being beaten to a pulp.
That's about the standard for Italian slapstick comedy in this period; if the comic doesn't survive with ease a series of events that would have the homicide cops called in for a human being, it wasn't considered funny.
Perez was actually a very talented comic and by the end of the decade he was directing and starring in comedies under a variety of names in the United States. He wound up injuring himself in a stunt in 1922 and died a few years later.
So the next time you look at one of these movies and say "Oh, that's clearly a dummy being twirled about and thrown out a window", remember that sometimes they used a human being. Nor did it always turn out well.
That's about the standard for Italian slapstick comedy in this period; if the comic doesn't survive with ease a series of events that would have the homicide cops called in for a human being, it wasn't considered funny.
Perez was actually a very talented comic and by the end of the decade he was directing and starring in comedies under a variety of names in the United States. He wound up injuring himself in a stunt in 1922 and died a few years later.
So the next time you look at one of these movies and say "Oh, that's clearly a dummy being twirled about and thrown out a window", remember that sometimes they used a human being. Nor did it always turn out well.
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- boblipton
- Sep 11, 2013
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- Robinet quiere ser jokey
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- Runtime4 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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