Author Archive: Retro

A police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.

An excellent comedy starring Turpin as a postman who everyday visits a block of apartments to gaze at his love. Soon he discovers that mechanics are building a robot doppelganger. He takes over and at the dummy’s debut, he dresses himself and hides the dummy.

The flirty proprietor of the Outside Inn catches his bellboy laughing at him and throws him into the street, just in time to be caught by Musty, who is passing by. When Musty learns that the bellboy has been discharged and that there is consequently a vacancy in the hotel organization, he drops him to the sidewalk, enters the inn and applies for the position. Proving himself the lightning bell-boy of the world, he is accepted. Musty soon learns that the grand stairway of the hotel is a trick staircase and that by pulling a lever the stairs will straighten out, converting the stairway into a chute. After descending the incline on his own account, he tries it out on various patrons with satisfactory results. The elevator, operated by hand power, sticks when a corpulent guest acts as cargo and a horse is commandeered to raise the lift. All goes well until a passing farmer [...]

Leon buys a set of cooking utensils (he would) for his wife (Dorothy Christy) for their wedding anniversary, and the store sends Maizie (Claire Carleton) to his home to cook a demonstration dinner. A neighbor (Ida Moore) sees her and tells Mrs. Errol that Leon is “entertaining” a blonde. Leon is busily hiding Maizie from Mrs. Errol when her boyfriend Rocky (Tom Kennedy) also shows up.

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his ‘title.’

Ferdie’s wife is fox-trot crazy, wanting to go dancing all the time. To get out of it, Ferdie fakes an ankle injury. When his wife spies him walking without his crutch, she writes a letter to her stern mother, inviting her to stay with them while Ferdie heals. Rather than face his mother-in-law, Ferdie admits he was faking his injury, and tears up the letter.

A winner and sure to please. In front of one of the largest newspaper offices is a hot air shaft through which immense volumes of air are forced by a blower. Ladies in crossing this shaft often have their clothes slightly disarranged. A young man is escorting a young lady and talking very earnestly. They walk slowly along until they stand directly over the air shaft. The young lady’s skirts are suddenly raised to an almost unreasonable height, greatly to her horror and much to the amusement of the newsboys, bootblacks, and passersby.