Pathéscope 9.5mm Sound (1956)

SEVENTEEN Comedy Farce D/30591 High Chink*. Harry Langdon, with the police close on his heels, pauses for a rest by the wall of a nearby house. However, his period of rest lasts less than "forty winks" for, much to his surprise, a section of the wall disappears and so does Harry— right into the heart of a Chinese temple. Once inside he is involved in numerous high jinks with various "high chinks". Before accidentally finding his way out he has an encounter with a Chinese dummy, is worshipped by the high priest and rescues a maiden in distress. D/30592 All Change. With Harry Langdon. Sid the sweeper decides to make a journey on the subway. Trouble starts when Sid, and his broom, get stuck in the door of the train. The crowd surge forward and he is trampled underfoot. He recovers and, with the broom wrapped round his neck, tries to regain his feet. He finally does so but at the expense of the downfall of the guard's trousers. At one stage Sid locks the carriage doors and stops an angry crowd from entering; when the guard sees this he promptly removes the bolt, but at the same time Sid opens the doors opposite and the crowd, plus the guard, race clean through, leaving Sid to complete his journey in peace. D/30604 Boot-i-FiiU. Comedy-Farce. The ring-master, always a man to be reckoned with in the circus, tries hard to win the favour of the beautiful star of the show. She however spurns his advances and her pet monkey shows his disapproval also by emptying the contents of his meal over the ringmaster's head. Pursuing him to his caravan the monkey climbs into one of the showman's boots and proceeds to hop about around the circus much to the consternation of the ringmaster and to his meuiy followers. D/3061 I Paws for Breath. Slapstick comedy. Billy Bevan — a circus hand decides to take a ride into the country. Unfortunately he commandeers the chariot which pulls the lion's cage and doesn't discover his error until he's well on the way. Incidents followed by accidents leave Billy in a daze and certainly in no mood to "pause" for breath. D/30655 The Snake Charmer. Charlie, having made merry just a little too enthusiastically, takes a quiet snooze while at the local Variety Theatre. He awakes, not to see pink elephants but SNAKES ALIVE. D/30659 The Duet. Featuring Charlie Chaplin. In the good old days of Variety the custard pie was one way of showing your disapproval of artistes. Charlie is the right side of the footlights, however, and with the aid of Fatty Arbuckle, gives the male duettists a very damp reception. D/30690 Happy Returns. Our two friends celebrate Hardy's birthday by taking their wives to a night-club. However, they meet two girl friends, and Hardy, whilst endeavouring to play the Don Juan, unfortunately does not reckon v^rith his wife's ingenuity. D/30726 Penmanship. Stan Laurel bursts into the local Post Office and picks up a pen. This should be the end of the story but the Post Office pen, like all Post Office pens, refuses to function, so our Stanley tries again, and again and again. The t-elegram is written but the Post Office is left in chaos. D/30728 Holding the Dummy. Billy Bevan running a very exclusive dressmaking salon creates lovely dresses for lovely ladies and a lovely mess for himself by failing to observe if the dummy lives or not. D/30751 Foot Sore. Stan Laurel takes Oliver Hardy away from hospital after a foot operation, the idea is a caravan convalescence but Stan's nerves get the better of him and Oliver's foot receives treatment that is not conducive to good health.