Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco | |
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Directed by | Keystone Film Company |
Distributed by | Mutual Film Company |
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Running time | 9 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent with English intertitles |
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco is a 1915 American short comedy-documentary film both starring and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
Production background
Producer
World's Fair
. They turned the cameras around, using the Fair crowds as extras and the Fair itself as a free background. Arbuckle and Normand clowned around and interacted with the Fair's surprised attendees. Among the sights shown are:
- The battleship Oregon (misidentified as a dreadnought) in the bay
- The Ferry Building
- The St, Francis Hotel (future sight of the Fatty Arbuckle scandal)
- The convict ship Success (including views of a flogging frame and an iron maiden)
- The Tower of Jewels
The film ends with a nighttime view of the fair, including a scene with the "Captive Aeroplane", an early amusement ride.
Prints of the film exist in the Library of Congress film archive.[1]
Cast
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as himself
- Mabel Normand as herself
- Hank Mann
- James Rolph Jr., Mayor of San Francisco, as himself (credited as Mayor Rolph)
- Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink as herself (credited as Madame Schuman-Heink)
- Al St. John
See also
- Fatty Arbuckle filmography
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)
References
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco". Silent Era. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
External links
- Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco at IMDb
- Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco available for free download at Internet Archive