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 | Roscoe Arbuckle Mabel Normand |
Produced by | Mack Sennett |
Starring | Roscoe Arbuckle Mabel Normand |
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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 Mack Sennett brought Arbuckle and Normand to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, also known as the 1915 San Francisco 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. 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. as Himself, Mayor of San Francisco (as Mayor Rolph)
- Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink as Herself
- Al St. John
See also
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
Categories:
- 1915 films
- 1910s comedy films
- 1910s documentary films
- 1910s short films
- American films
- American comedy films
- American documentary films
- American silent short films
- Short documentary films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
- Films directed by Mabel Normand
- Films produced by Mack Sennett
- World's fairs in fiction
- Keystone Studios films
- Panama–Pacific International Exposition
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Documentary films about San Francisco
- 1910s short comedy film stubs
- Short silent documentary film stubs