Ferdinand Guillaume, whose stage name was Polidor, was a major star of Italian slapstick in this period -- and worked up until his death almost sixty years later; if you try, you can spot him in LA DOLCE VITA.
This being Italian slapstick, it is of a more bone-breaking variety than the relatively refined product that Mack Sennett would begin turning out in a couple of years. It is also much more stage bound.
This is a mediocre example of Polidor's work: he's a hypochondriac, so he goes to a hypnotist to have his neuroses dealt with. The hypnotist uses a feather to to hypnotize him, but doesn't turn it off properly, so Polidor goes into a trance on sighting anything with feathers. This means that he leans over in an impossible-lloking pose, and walks on. Variations on this are the gags and although he does lose his pants at the end, this one is a little slow.
This being Italian slapstick, it is of a more bone-breaking variety than the relatively refined product that Mack Sennett would begin turning out in a couple of years. It is also much more stage bound.
This is a mediocre example of Polidor's work: he's a hypochondriac, so he goes to a hypnotist to have his neuroses dealt with. The hypnotist uses a feather to to hypnotize him, but doesn't turn it off properly, so Polidor goes into a trance on sighting anything with feathers. This means that he leans over in an impossible-lloking pose, and walks on. Variations on this are the gags and although he does lose his pants at the end, this one is a little slow.