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Voidsville Follies

Works by Hank Mann (2)

Won in a Closet/Won in a Cupboard

Mabel Normand (director/lead)
Charles Inslee (lead)
Alice Davenport (lead)
Charles Avery (lead)
Hank Mann (lead)
Al St. John (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1914
Minutes: 14

Starts slow, but builds: from the comic pairing of Mabel the farm beauty and her geeky Alfred E. Newman-clone “ideal” in the first third, to a symphony of quirky Keystone chaos in the final third. Second half is mostly a rework of The Bangville Police (1913).

Featured elements:

: abuse; automobile; comedy; crazy cops; distress call; farce; forbidden love; identity mix-up; invasion-call-rescue; mama's boy; parody; rescue; slapstick; tramp; unrequited love

Mabel's Married Life

Mack Sennett (director)
Frank D. Williams (cinematographer)
Mabel Normand (lead/writer)
Charles Chaplin (lead/writer)
Mack Swain (lead)
Hank Mann (lead)
Echo Park Lake Bridge (location)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jun 1914
Minutes: 15

Just a string of gags with no real story to speak of, main interest is Mabel doing The Tramp Walk.

Featured elements:

: boozy-woozy; comedy; drunken warrior; fighting; identity mix-up; slapstick; tramp

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