The Curtain Pole
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing ent...
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"This was perhaps one of the earliest forms of slapstick comedy on film. Certainly, it's one of the early forms of the climatic chase sequences that ends movies of that particular genre. At this time, Mack Sennett was acting and writing for the Biograph company where he met the main director of that studio's output, D. W. Griffith. So Mack started his film career under him. Many of Griffith's shorts at this time were of various genres but since Mack was a comedy performer, it's possible D. W. let him helm some of the most gag-driven scenes that abounded here which might have..."
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Mack Sennet's debut as a director.
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An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing ent...