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Voidsville Follies

Works from Fred Mace (4)

Help! Help!

Mack Sennett (director)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Fred Mace (lead)
Dell Henderson (lead)
Edward Dillon (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Apr 1912
Minutes: 8

Parody of the (unintentionally) much funnier rescue thriller, "The Lonely Villa" (that Sennett wrote and performed in), and steppingstone to the (intentionally) funnier debut (or semi-debut according to some) film of The Keystone Cops released a year later, "The Bangville Police".

Featured elements:

: automobile; comedy; distress call; home invasion; invasion-call-rescue; parody; rescue; slapstick

Helen's Marriage

Mack Sennett (director/lead/producer)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Edward Dillon (lead)
Fred Mace (lead)
Dell Henderson (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1912
Minutes: 7

No laughs, just young Mabel - for completists only.

Featured elements:

: comedy; forbidden love

Katchem Kate

Mack Sennett (director)
Percy Higginson (cinematographer)
Dell Henderson (writer)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Fred Mace (lead)
Charles Avery (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jun 1912
Minutes: 11

To escape the drudgery of her job in a laundry, Mabel attends 'The Alert Detective School' to become a sleuth, and soon happens on a bombing conspiracy. OK - so not much laughs, but watching Mabel's early comic moves and cross-dressing may be of historic interest for her fans.

Featured elements:

: bombers; comedy; cross-dressing; detective; gender-bender; wage slavery; zero to hero

The Bangville Police

Henry Lehrman (director)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Fred Mace (lead)
Charles Avery (lead)
Nick Cogley (lead)
Keystone Cops (lead)
Mack Sennett (producer)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Apr 1913
Minutes: 9

Debut (or semi-debut according to some) of The Keystone Cops in a parody of the invasion-call-rescue plot formula, popularized by D.W. Griffith films.

Featured elements:

: automobile; comedy; crazy cops; distress call; home invasion; identity mix-up; invasion-call-rescue; parody; rescue; slapstick

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