Pathéscope 9.5mm Sound (1956)

TWENTY Comedy Farce M/30657 Sliding Scale. Featuring Laurel and Hardy. Take one large gorilla, two prize chumps, one small piano and a ricketty swing bridge, place them all high up in the Alps and you have the setting for this first-class little comedy. Laurel and Hardy, waiters at a big hotel, are instructed to move a piano to a small cabin high in the mountains. At the best of times this would be quite a job, but with Laurel seeing double, the task becomes almost impossible. With only a few pieces of rope and a number of insecure boards between them and a drop of thousands of feet this is the time they choose to meet the gorilla. " What happens ? " the anwer's in the " infirmary I " An extract from the Sound film T/9698, '" Swiss Miss." SUPER FILMS SB/562 Charlie on the Boards. Charlie Chaplin, as a stage-hand at the local music-hall, shows us in unmistakable fashion his opinion of the various turns until he is suddenly called upon to assist the Strong Man in his act. Uproar soon breaks out back-stage, but Charlie has his own way of dealing with the situation. An extract from the Keystone film, " The Property Man." SB/563 Take the Air. Paul, employed in a builder's yard, takes life easily, in spite of the foreman. A rollicking farce. SB/600 It's a Gift. Snub, the great inventor, is called up by the Board of Directors of an important oil concern to demonstrate his very latest invention — a petrol substitute. His "juice" is served out in pen-fillers — one drop for cars, two for flivvers. This is but one incident in a long scream of farce. You should see the rest of it. SB/638 Freedom for Ever. Charlie Chaplin as an escaped convict, who leads his guards a rare old dance along the beach and up and down the cliffs. Soon, ho^vever, his fortunes improve and he finds himself in the luxurious home of a delightful young lady. But trouble follows him even there. One of Chaplin's funniest efforts. An extract from the Mutual film, " The Adventurer." SB/643 The New World. Charlie, finding Europe hopeless to live in, decides to try his luck in America, and vfe find him in the steerage of an emigrant ship. On board he meets and befriends a charming young girl and finds, to his astonishment, a great passion growing within him for the damsel. Alas and alack, v^hen the Statue of Liberty looms in sight they must perforce separate I Poor Charlie begins his wanderings on the nevr Continent with a sad heart and even sadder pockets until, one day, entering a restaurant, though he scarcely knows hov^ he is going to pay for what he gets, he sees the charming girl again. From that day Fortune begins to smile on him, the bill gets paid and Charlie gets the girl. SB/648 The Water Cure. We never quite know why Charlie Chaplin has to " take the waters " at a hydro full of eccentric old men and weird ladies, but he soon enlivens the place and makes everybody happy " in a highly original way. This film has as many laughs per second as any audience can react to. An extract from the Mutual film, " The Cure." 5B/65 1 Easy Street. Probably Charlie Chaplin's most famous early comedy. Charlie as a policeman is, perhaps, understandable, but Charlie as a super-policeman, ruling the toughest part of the town. Easy Street, with its particularly obnoxious bully, is something quite extraordinary. In the end Charlie has not only quietened the neighbourhood, he has reformed it ! Adapted from the Mutual film.