Harry McCoy

In a hotel lobby an inebriated Charlie runs into an elegant lady, gets tied hup in her dog's leash, and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in one of an elderly husband where she hides under the bed. Enter the jealous wife and Mabel's lover. (imdb)

A powerful slum melodrama produced in 1915 on location in the lower east side of New York City, with a gaggle of authentic low-life types performing alongside professional actors. (Amazon.com)

The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the barroom floor and gets tossed out. Years later he sees her, her husband and their horde of children. Unrecognized by her, Charlie shakes off his troubles and walks off into the future

Charlie meets a couple and agrees to care for the man's crippled uncle. After the couple breaks up the man's new girl drops some eggs which Charlie slips on while trying to control the wheelchair. Charlie sets up the uncle near another wheelchair on a jetty, from which he lifts a beggar's cup and "invalid" sign. These he places with the uncle, and money begins to roll in. Charlie takes the money and buys himself a drink. (imdb)

Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife. The partners become fond of their counterparts and begin chasing each other around. A policeman looking for a professional Don Juan becomes involved, as does a Turk. (imdb)

Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire. (imdb)

Charlie works as a waiter in a local bar, constantly getting in scrapes with his boss, his coworkers, and even the customers. On an afternoon out, he runs into Mabel as she's being assaulted by a thief and rescues the poor woman while her fiance looks on helplessly. Charlie introduces himself as an ambassador from Greece, and the competition for Mabel's heart is on.

Two paperhangers are employed by a sanitarium to hang up some posters. Chaos Ensures. (imdb)

A hot dog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hot dogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while actually giving them away. She calls her policeman who battles Charlie. (imdb)

Charlie, competing with his rival's race car, offers Mabel a ride on his motorcycle but drops her in a puddle. He next joins some dubious characters in abduction of his rival just before the race for the Vanderbilt Cup. With her boyfriend locked up in a shed, Mabel takes his place. Charlie does what he can to sabotage the race, even causing Mabel's car to overturn. (imdb)

Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett. (imdb)

Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get involved in burglary in this Keystone from 1914. (imdb)

A Keystone slapstick comedy Harry McCoy & Mae Busch. (imdb)

Dell takes girlfriend Mae out for a ride in his Chevy but has to contend with romantic rival Dell, another one of Mae's suitors. (imdb)

Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger. (imdb)

A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives. (imdb)

Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets. (imdb)

A slapstick comedy featuring Sidney Smith & Harry McCoy. (imdb)

Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on installments. He has trouble making the payments, but then he's injured in an auto accident and the settlement allows him to pay off the ring and propose to Alice. (imdb)

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught. (imdb)

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press. (imdb)

Just as the local movie theater is about to begin showing a picture, the star of the film arrives and comes to see the movie himself. On screen, the star must rescue his girl from danger. In the theater, the star finds that not all of the audience admires his acting as much as he does. (imdb)

Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests Mabel's usual urban outfits -- although hers was fairly standard at the time.

Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.

A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.

Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.

This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father falls for him, needless to say and there is another suitor.

Sam Bernard in the kitchen cooking up something for his loved one.

The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and Ferdie (Neely Edwards) buy themselves a couple of cowboy suits, then head out west. They flirt with the pretty bar maids, knock out the local banditos with golf balls and play some poker. It's slight, low-key and amusing.

Arthur Stone gets into trouble due to a crossed phone line in this Mack Sennett comedy.

A master criminologist examines clues which may lead him to a missing diamond necklace, or to whoever is throwing pies. A clue leads to a subplot about Harry Gribbon selling eggs and getting married at shotgun.

Ed Brady has killed about a dozen of the police department's detective squad, so they have promoted a batch to that rank and sent Lloyd Hamilton to capture Brady.

Andy fixes his rocket invention to a locomotive in order to win a race with a bus.

Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party.

A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.