La valse à la mode

The 19-year-old Chevalier had recently started making a name for himself around Paris with his act, but here he's just another goofball starring in a fairly typical couple minutes of comedy from Pathé at the time. There's our star acting silly in the street, a bunch of other people acting silly in the street, a slapdash stop trick or two, and, most successfully, a final trick film bit to set the camera (and everything else) a-rocking (who said you needed to be on a boat for that one).

The story of a dancing idiot who can get everybody and everything to dance.