A BATHTUB ELOPEMENT (1916)
Running Time: 12 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi
Tweedledum is a farm hand that wants to elope with the farmer's daughter, but the family is violently against it, and chase him off. So he gets revenge on them by pranks like throwing bricks at them from the roof, setting fire to the mother sleeping on the porch. He and his love eventually escape by using a an old iron bath tub as a boat.

A BUSY NIGHT (1916)
Running Time: 17 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi
Perez plays all the parts in this tale of a lonely wife that invites a stranger into her flat while her hunter husband is away, only for him to return and chase the lover down the street, into a field, and onto a pier.

A Scrambled Honeymoon (1916)
Running Time: 10 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Louise Carver
Marcel Perez was a Spaniard whose career as a screen comic flourished from about 1907 through his death a couple of decades later, but it seemed that every time he garnered enough notice to interest the press, he would change studios, country, birthday, marriage status and name. He had first attracted the industry's attention in 1907 in a bone-breaking French comedy. Within a couple of years, this got him a gig starring in Italian comedies as Robinet and/or Tweedledum. In 1916, he came to the United States and worked among some of the minor players as a comedian and writer-director, until he lost a leg. Although he was talented enough to keep working and was doing some great work melding bone-breaking Italian slapstick with American slapstick.... well, he lost a leg in the early 1920s, died five years later and his stuff fell into obscurity, like a lot of silent comedians. It took about 80 years for Steve Massa to notice that the guy who made this great comedy in 1907 was the same guy who made these great comedies about 1913 and the same three or four guys who made these great comedies from 1916-1924, all in four or five different nations. And now he and Ben Model have put a second batch of them on dvd in THE MARCEL PEREZ COLLECTION vol. 2.So, in this one, he's sitting on a bench in the park, when he hears screaming. He rescues pretty Babette Perez from the wrecked canoe, but phones the cops to rescue her mom, hatchet-faced Louise Carver, while the two of them share a soda. After they get married (Babette and Marcel), Miss Carver invites herself on the honeymoon.The extant footage ends there, but there are some wonderful gags in what's available. Take a look at it, and the seven other offerings on the disc

CAMOUFLAGE (1918)
Running Time: 13 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi
Only the second reel of this 1918 Jester comedy is known to survive. The first half, in which it is established that Marcel Perez (known as "Twede-Dan" here as opposed to his other numerous screen aliases,including "Tweedie, Tweedledum", "Bungles", "Robinet" and, I suspect, Julia Swayne Gordon) is a private eye who has decided that Nilda Baracchi is a German spy. He follows her hither and yon and the gags are mostly about his ability to disguise himself as a railroad porter, an armchair or a pile of discarded newspapers at a moment's notice.

Chickens in Turkey (1919)
Running Time: 12 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Flo Bailey, Pierre Collosse
When a yacht owned and crewed only by women sails up to the shores of Turkey, the only man in sight is Marcel Perez. When he comes aboard, the young lovelies dress him in woman's clothing so the man-hungry owner won't grab him. Soon, however, pirates seize everyone and sell the women to a Turkish Pasha, who is particularly taken with the lovely Marcel. Only Dorothy Earle had escaped the pirates' notice, so she dresses in men's clothing to rescue everyone.

Friday the 13th (1923)
Running Time: 2 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez
All that survives of Marcel Perez' last screen performance is a two-minute fragment of him dealing -- unsuccessfully -- with a toothache. After this, he couldn't act any more. He worked as a director and gag man, and died before the silent era ended, his legacy scattered and lost.

Lend Me Your Wife (1916)
Running Time: 20 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Rex Adams
The title of this short pretty much sums up the plot: Perez stands to inherit a lot of money if he is married, so he asks fellow lineman Tom Murray and his wife, Babette Perez, to pretend she is married to Perez. As this is a comedy, you will not be surprised to discover this is not carried out successfully.

MADEMOISELLE ROBINET/Miss Tweedledum (1912)
Running Time: 8 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Ernesto Vaser
Robinet, caught flirting with a married woman by her husband, disguises himself as the woman's female friend.

Oh! What a Day (1918)
Running Time: 19 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Thomas C. Regan
Marcel Perez' boss tells him he must work late Friday evening and all day Saturday. Perez doesn't let that stop him from keeping his beach date with Nilde Baracchi -- which doesn't go as well as planned in this funny short comedy.The Internet Movie DataBase claims that William Seiter is the director of this movie. Ben Model and Steve Massa, who curated it from a first reel held at the Museum of Modern Art, a second reel at the Library of Congress and examining newspaper and copyright files, say that Perez directed it. Perez, who was on his third or fourth career as a leading screen comedian -- every time he rose to prominence, he would change his name, his studio, his country of origin, his marital status.... he had moved to the United States a couple of years earlier and was making a name for himself, merging American and European styles. This one seems to fall a bit more on the European side, given his pulled faces, but it's hard to tell. The first reel, in which a long series of mechanical gags occur, doesn't survive at all well. The ones that do involve the leads and their automobile, and the gags strike me as ones that Harold Lloyd would be doing in a couple of years; Perez was a very imaginative gag technician.

Pinched (1921)
Running Time: 7 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Flo Bailey, Pierre Collosse
Marcel Perez here appearing in the United States under the name of "Tweedy" tries to pick up Dorothy Earle. She has him arrested, but once in the police station, she changes her mind.

ROBINET IN LOVE WITH A SINGER/Tweedledum in Love with a Singe (1911)
Running Time: 4 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Gigetta Morano
Robinet visits the music-hall, where he falls in love with the star attraction, singer Mimi Kratzfuss.

ROBINET IS JEALOUS (1914)
Running Time: 8 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi
Overly suspicious of his wife, Robinet follows her into an apartment building, where he proceeds, floor by floor, bursting into rooms, looking for her. In these rooms he finds a dentist hell bent to pull teeth, a boxing match he gets mixed into, an aggressive bunch of masseurs and lastly, a sculptor

ROBINET IS LOVED TOO MUCH BY HIS WIFE (1912)
Running Time: 8 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Ernesto Vaser
Marcel Perez was born in 1885 in Madrid, Spain as Marcel Fernández Peréz.

ROBINET'S WHITE SUIT (1911)
Running Time: 4 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Gigetta Morano
Tweedledum wears a white suit and is caught in the rain. He stubbornly proceeds on his way and encounters so many accidents that he is forced to return home in a pitiful state.

Some Hero (1916)
Running Time: 12 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi, Jerry Jellman
When Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.

SWEET DADDY (1921)
Running Time: 21 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Dorothy Earle, Kit Guard
Marcel Perez is a browbeaten husband whose wife keeps him around to catch mice. When she sends him out for groceries to feed her harridan friends, Perez falls in love with a poster of Dorothy Earle, who plays a nurse in a local leg show. They meet and that's where the trouble starts.

The Near-Sighted Cyclist (1907)
Running Time: 5 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez
The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure follows misadventure with great frequency, but the cyclist comes up smiling every time, mounts his machine, and again resumes his journey. Accidents which would maim or kill an ordinary mortal serve only to spur him on to fresh exertions in a mad search for physical inconveniences and dangers, which always present themselves. It may indeed be predicted of the hero that he will either die peacefully in his bed or end his career through slipping on a piece of orange peel, or swallowing a pin. Only an ordinary and simple ending would be appropriate after such a strenuous life. Certainly he will never be hanged or drowned. He charges at full speed a horse-drawn tram car, and is upset. He attacks the double windows of a corner shop, to falls into a basket of eggs on the other side. He bodily upsets a donkey, cart and driver. He is precipitated into and disorganizes a party of men and women enjoying refreshment at an open-air café. He is thrown into a deep excavation in the road, and, colliding with the parapet of a bridge, is thrown over and falls forty feet into a swiftly flowing river, to be fished out and remount his machine. Finally, he appears in full view of the audience, a sorry spectacle of mud, eggs, water and other accumulations, but wearing a grin of triumph which augurs well for his future.

Wild (1921)
Running Time: 20 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Flo Bailey, Pierre Collosse
Out west, some bad guys have Dorothy Earle tied to a tree while they duel with their 20-shooters to see who gets her. The sight of the helpless Dorothy drives Marcel Perez wild; he rescues her. Her father tells them they can keep each other, just empty one of the gold mines up in them thar hills. However the bad guys incite the local Indians to attack Our Heroes in this funny comedy.

YOU'RE NEXT (1919)
Running Time: 21 mins Black and White
Starring: Marcel Perez, Nilde Baracchi
Basically it's about a dude who is a Barbour but he is blind and each people in line will Coe