We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
28 PATHEPICTURES
Hal Roach Comedies
STARRING CHARLIE CHASE
AT FIRST SIGHT (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
While Jimmy Jump is having a shine, lie sees the girl struggling to put the top of the car up. He helps her and they make an engagement for dinner, and exchange cards. Jimmy tells his boss, who fits him up with clothes and money. Jimmy leaves him the girl's card, and when Jimmy's boss sees his fiancee's name on the card, complications ensue, but he learns at last that Jimmy's "date" is his girl's maid and there are wedding bells for four.
JUST A MINUTE (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Jimmy Jump, an automobile salesman, is about to be married when his boss orders him to show the Mayor a car. Jimmy leaves the girl on the corner for just a minute, but the minute is so long that the girl has married another man when he comes back. The Mayor goes to a picnic in the car but does not buy it, so Jimmy loses his job and is out of luck all around.
ONE OF THE FAMILY (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous. The lady gets him various costumes and takes him around wherever her husband will see them. The husband objects and Jimmy is rescued by Patricia, the maid. She takes him home to the amusement of her family, but everything ends happily.
A PERFECT LADY (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Jimpp Jump agrees to take the part of a lady in a play because Patricia wrote it. During the play Jimmy's clothes are stolen and numerous adventures attend his journey home in the stage costume.
SEEING NELLIE HOME (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Jimmy Jump vies with the other stags for the honor of taking Nellie home from the dance and wins the honor. When they reach Nellie's house, Nellie has no key, so Jimmy climbs in a second story window and tries to find the front door. He wrecks both the house and himself before he reaches the door, and when he does get there Nellie has just remembered that she left the door open.
SWEET LADY (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a ballon or two and looks over the station for a little girl. He takes one by mistake, narrowly escapes being arrested as a kidnapper and finally meets the niece, who is an over-dressed, ultra-modern young woman. The time between trains is spent in trying to hide the dog from the policeman, and when Jimmy puts his charge on the train, he feels that he has done a week's work in a day.
SITTIN' PRETTY (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Charlie Chase goes to call on his girl, a policeman's daughter, and as soon as he steps out of his Ford a thief steps in. Charlie calls for his prospective father-in-law, but he is in his bath and can't come to make the arrest. The girl induces Charlie to put on her father's uniform and make the arrest himself. When Charlie gets to the stationhouse he is sent out with a squad of policemen to capture a maniac. He tries to escape but doesn't succeed. He does succeed in capturing the maniac and receives a reward made out to the girl's father, which the real policeman promptly appropriates. Charlie gets a cigar and the girl.
HARD KNOCKS (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Jimmy Jump, a hard working clerk, has all the bad luck while his associate has all the good luck. They are both invited to a birthday party by the boss's daughter. In the midst of the party Jimmy returns to the office to get a ring he has for the girl, and finds his rival robbing the safe. He catches him and wins the girl.
DON'T FORGET (M., H.S.) 1 Reel
Jimmy Jump has a habit of forgetting everything — important or not. When his wedding day arrives, he forgets the fact until he sees the girl waiting. Then he forgets the ring and license in turn, but he finally ends up at the church, forgetting only his shoes and stockings.