National Film Library catalogue (1938)

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He goes to a gymnasium whence the instructor propels him through the roof. When he comes down he rolls along the road in endless somersaults. He is stiffly doubled-up, and has to be ironed out straight again in the laundry. production : Italia . Positive, one reel, condition: Fairly good; main title missing. No title (France) An intoxicated man at the theatre, seeing a juggler doing balancing feats, steps on to the stage and tries to imitate him. Ejected, he wanders along trying to balance articles of all kinds on his nose, other people's hats, restaurant wine-glasses and chairs, a dog and a ladder. Finally, having arrived home, he places a series of objects one on top of the other, and has just succeeded in lifting them, when curious neighbours who have been collecting at the keyhole fall headlong through the door and upset everything. production: Pathe. With Max Under. Positive, one reel, condition: Poor to fair ; main title missing. No title (half, 19 13) A slapstick comedy in which four people seem to pursue each other in rapid succession through the various rooms of a house. Polidor takes all four parts, as well as that of the janitor. production: Pasquali.With Ferdinand Guillaume (Polidor). Positive, one reel, condition: Fair ; main title missing. No title (America) A young man, leaving his office, sees a pretty stenographer in the office opposite also about to leave. He waits for her but she ignores him. They both eat in the same restaurant and she leaves with his umbrella in error. He follows her, claims the umbrella, and, since it has begun to rain, persuades her to join him under it. Thus the romance ends happily. production: Vita graph. With Maurice Costello. Positive, one reel, condition: Fair; incomplete; main title missing. No title (France) Mr Brown gets up in the morning in a furious temper, smashes the breakfast table, upsets everyone, and on his way to the office knocks down a passer-by who challenges him to a duel. Mr. Brown is no better at the office. After a comic duel he returns home bandaged and goes to bed in as bad a temper as he awoke. production: Pathe. Positive, one reel, condition: Fair ; main title missing. No title (Great Britain) A bad boy, beaten by his mother, runs into the street, bumping into a policeman. The policeman is about to seize him when the boy's mother appears and attacks [57]