Harpo Marx in Horse Feathers (1932)

Harpo Marx interpreta en arpa, Everyone says I love you (Todos dicen te amo)

Le Diable Noir by Georges Melies (1905)

"El diablo negro"
Un precursor del cine y de las comedias. En éste caso, un simpático diablo que evidentemente no asusta a nadie. Sólo al sorprendido pasajero de un hotel que esperaba pasar una temporada de vacaciones bastante diferente a lo que resultó la realidad...

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

(In 1913 Georges Méliès' film company was forced into bankruptcy by the large French and American studios and his company was bought out of receivership by Pathé Frères. After being driven out of business Méliès became a toy salesman at the Montparnasse station. In 1932 the Cinema Society gave Méliès a home in Chateau D'Orly. Melies did not grasp the value of his films, and having some 500 films recorded on cellulose the French Army seized most of this stock to be melted down into boot heels during World War I. Many of the other films were sold to be recycled into new film. As a result many of these films do not exist today.)

Director: Georges Méliès
Producer: Georges Melies
Production Company: Star Film Paris
Music, Black & White

Syd Chaplin - Gussle the Golfer (1914)

El medio hermano de Carlitos Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, en uno de sus primeros cortometrajes.
Es interesante comparar la forma de trabajar de Sydney con la de Charlie.
Nótese, también, la aparición de Mack Swain, un actor que solía trabajar en las películas de Carlitos...

Charlie Chaplin's half-brother, Sydney Chaplin, in one of his early shorts.

Interesting to compare Syd's performance here with Charlie's -Idle Class-.

Note the appearance of Mack Swain, a regular in Charlie's movies.

Conduciendo por Nueva York (Comedia) / Driving Around New York City (1928)

Dog Factory / Fábrica de perros (21 de abril de 1904 - Edison)

Original comedia de Thomas Edison filmada el 21 de abril del año 1904
Esta es la parte 1. Por el momento no encuentro la última parte. En cuanto consiga ubicarla, la pondré. De todas formas, es interesante y divertido ver este film.

In the middle of a store or factory set sits a machine identified as the "Patent Dog Transformator." On the walls behind it are coils of sausages or hot dogs, labeled with the name of the dog they represent: Pointer, Setter, Fighting Bull, Bull, Terrier, Spaniel, Poodle, Plain Dog, Trained Dog, Bull Pups, Boston Bull, Daschund sic, Mut, and Pug. At the top of the back wall is a sign that reads "Dogs made while you wait--Dog Factory--Dogs mixed to order." A bearded man in a suit stands by the machine looking bored, as his partner in a cap and apron dusts the rows of sausages. A tramp enters the store with a string of three dogs, which he sells to the man in the suit. One by one, the three dogs are loaded into the top of the machine, cranked by the man in the apron, and transformed into links of sausage that come out the right end of the contraption. These links are then hung up in their proper places on the wall: Plain Dog, Trained Dog, and Boston Bull. A man identified as a dandy with his cane and straw topper enters and orders a spaniel. The process is then reversed, as the appropriate coil of meat is taken off the wall and put in the top of the machine, resulting in a dog exiting from the left end of the transformator. The next customer, a woman, orders a dachshund, but the dog proves too jumpy for her and is changed back to a sausage; the woman then settles on a terrier, and leaves happily with her purchase end of part 1.

Female Boxing at The Roseland Ballroom (1920's) - Boxeo Femenino en el Roseland Ballroom

Sigo con el tema de las mujeres boxeadoras. En este caso es una comedia. Se puede ver al término del round, cómo atienden a las contendientes en sus rincones: rápida y eficientemente reparan los daños en el maquillaje... jaja

Cute clip of female boxers as a novelty act at the Roseland. Corner "men" reapply makeup between rounds.