Slapstick Silent Comedy
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b&w - poor quality - silent movie star comedian Lloyd Hamilton in slapstick comedy short - film set - taxi backs up & stops - man gets in back & covers eyes - taxi driver jumps out of moving car - taxi drives over dynamite as man pushes down on plunger causing large explosion - when smoke clears entire camera crew is on ground w/ pieces of the vehicle falling all around - passenger from taxi falls out of sky & lands onto motorcycle foot hits clutch & motorcycle drives off movpov from behind man on motorcycle - near misses - drives through filming of movie - camera & crew & actors go flying - crashes into storefront - drives down street w/ box on head nearly running over group of men who go running - drives through side of barn & exits other side - chickens on handlebars of motorcycle then fly off motorcycle hits man who then gets stuck on handlebars - Lloyd Hamilton walks over to car - cranks starter - motorcycle approaches w/ its riders in panic as motorcycle hits car which then collapses into a heap - 2 men who were riding motorcycle fly through air after impact - one soars over wall of studio - Hamilton still holding onto crank from wrecked car after explosion - he throws crank & hits other man in face - filming of movie on exterior movie set - man throws dressed dummy over wall - drunk on other side thinks dummy is real man - fans dummy w/ his hat - film is incomplete