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something huge, beast or machine, getting out of the control of its simple-minded attendant. Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Langdon, and others were to take it over in later films.
The tone of "Sunnyside," laid "some few years back," is set by the rural backgrounds. It begins with an iris in on the steeple of a small church and opens up to reveal the quiet little country town of Sunnyside. It boasts a real hotel appropriately named "Evergreen," from the verdant crop of grass in the lobby. The Hired Man is the all-in-one staff for the combination hotel and farm. The Hardhearted Boss is a slavedriver though professing to be a pious pillar of the church. Overwork and underpay is his principle. He drives the poor drudge to the point of exhaustion. Charlie goes to bed with his clothes on, to lose no time getting to work in the morning. His day starts at 4 A.M. and finishes at midnight. Oversleeping on this particular typical day, he moves his shoes on the floor to give the impression that he is already up. He fails to evade punishment, is kicked out of bed and gets a tongue-lashing.
To make it possible for him to do all his chores Charlie uses a wonderful array of home-made labor-saving devices. With the cow in the kitchen he is able to milk her directly into the coffee cups; he holds a hen over a frying pan so she can lay a fried egg. When he waits on table, the same day, he gets his pan in a tangle with the boss and draws further punishment.
Charlie's sole solace in his twenty-four-hour day is his quite hopeless love for Edna, the Village Belle, the neighboring farmer's daughter. Sugar dribbles on the counter as, in a dreamy daze, he serves her. Half out of pity, she tolerates his attentions.
One Sunday afternoon, driving the cows home from pasture, visions of his fair lady hold him spellbound at a fork in the road while the herd strays off. The moving