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Voidsville Follies

Works by Josephine Stevens (3)

The Butcher Boy

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead/writer)
Frank D. Williams (cinematographer)
Al St. John (lead)
Buster Keaton (lead)
Josephine Stevens (lead)
Alice Lake (lead)
Luke the Dog (lead)
Comique (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Apr 1917
Minutes: 28

Featuring:

Roscoe's kitchen and smoking skills
Luke the Dog's treadmill skills
Film debut of 21-year-old Buster Keaton's stone-cold porkpie
Al and Buster wrecking from the rafters

Featured elements:

: animal act; comedy; distress call; farce; forbidden love; gender-bender; identity mix-up; metatheatre; roughhouse; slapstick

The Rough House

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead/writer)
Frank D. Williams (cinematographer)
Al St. John (lead)
Buster Keaton (lead)
Alice Lake (lead)
Josephine Stevens (lead)
Comique (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jun 1917
Minutes: 19

Highlights:

Demonstrates the benefit of a calm, composed, and emotionally disengaged response to unexpected events.
With two forks stuck into two bread rolls, Roscoe performs a dance using the rolls as feet: in the same way that Chaplin years later made famous in the “Oceana Roll Dance” of The Gold Rush
The acrobatic teamwork of The Rough Boys
Roscoe's kitchen skills
Reveals one possible origin of the thuggish character of US police

Let's be clear: if you're looking for any hint of a story, other than what is given in the title, then too bad. If you can't stand the heat, then stay out of the Rough kitchen.

Featured elements:

: chase; comedy; comedy of manners; crazy cops; dark comedy; farce; fighting; infidelity; roughhouse; servitude; slapstick; slide

His Wedding Night

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead/writer)
Joseph Anthony Roach (writer)
George Peters (cinematographer)
Al St. John (lead)
Buster Keaton (lead)
Alice Lake (lead)
Alice Mann (lead)
Josephine Stevens (lead)
Comique (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Aug 1917
Minutes: 20

Fatty's behind the counter juggling utensils again, un hunh.
And a'courting the boss' daughter again, un hunh, un hunh.
And fighting off rival Al again, un hunh, un hunh, un hunh.
And drugging then sexually assaulting women again, un...wait - that was a different comedian...

Featured elements:

: abuse; animal act; comedy; dark comedy; ethnic stereotype; fighting; gender-bender; identity mix-up; roughhouse; slapstick; swindling

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