Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle directed and starred in this Keystone short. Our hero wishes to impress a pretty girl by taking her to a fancy dress ball but, he doesn't have a proper suit for the occasion. His rival for the girl's affections does have a suit so he steals in from him, even though the suit is too small for him. While attention the ball, the rival slips in to the event and secretly rips open the seam in the dress pants. watch
A young married couple (Mabel Normand and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) decide to take a walk through the park after having an argument caused by the husband's flirtation with the maid. While on their walk, the couple becomes mixed up with another couple in the park. Thinking that the "No Public Spooning" law had been broken, the police become involved and both the young bride and the other woman's husband are arrested and taken to jail. watch
A rising star who rose from bit player to writer, director, and star of comedies for Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle recruited up-and-coming vaudeville comic Buster Keaton for a series of films from 1917 through 1919. Presented chronologically, these shorts demonstrate Keaton's evolution from bit player to full partner as both men honed their comedic skills. Following the 1921 scandal that was inflamed by a publicity-seeking prosecutor and the tabloid press, Arbuckle's films were withdrawn from circulation in America. The films in this collection were gathered from international archives and private collections, with new English intertitles and digitally mastered from 35mm, some directly from the nitrate originals. watch
