Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (1926)

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66 CLASS 4 — Comedies and Juvenile REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER picture in which his models are posed as nymphs in costumes rather too abbreviated to be entirely approved by her. Somewhat slapstick and inclining a trifle more toward the risque than the refined comedy. 897 feet standard length Rental $1.25 4019 Code GACUR Van-ar-chy Independent Featuring Billy B. Van A slapstick comedy without much of any plot, and designed principally to feature the antics and horse-play of the vaudeville comedian who takes the principal part. It is a tale of anarchists, bombs, dynamite explosions, kidnapping and a few other crimes or misdemeanors. It is full of "moving accidents by flood and field." For those who like this sort of a comedy, it is the sort of a comedy that they will like. 1574 feet standard length — 2 reels Rental $2.00 4020 Code GADA The Plucky Hoodoo Independent Featuring Billy B. Van Slapstick comedy of the rube farmer type, featuring a country blacksmith, a lazy farmhand and a city family visiting the country in their automobile. The new farm hand has all sorts of troubles with his employer, but finally proves himself a hero (?) and wins the farmer's daughter. 1800 feet standard length — on 2 reels Rental $2.50 4021 Code GADE The Adventurer Mutual Featuring Charlie CImplin The funniest comedy Charlie Chaplin ever produced. As an escaped convict, he escapes in excruciatingly funny ways from half a dozen guards attempting his recapture. Rescuing a beautiful maiden from a watery grave, he poses as a wealthy yachtsman and is thus entertained in the home of her millionaire father, where he keeps the other guests in a riot of merriment, until h'is rival, suspecting his identity, again puts the police on his trail. Thereupon a chase of Chaplin resumed in the environments of the wealthy home affords still other variations of clever and elusive tactics by the ingenious comedian. 1845 feet standard length — on 2 reels Rental $3.00 4022 Code GADI The Pawnshop Mutual Featuring Charlie Chaplin In another of the Mutual Chaplin series, we find Charlie a clerk in a pawnshop. With Chaplin comedy he "gets off" some of his best antics, fights his rival with dough and tames the biting gold fish with acid. However, the cleverest For maximum enjoyment