Take the Air
Paul finds a new use for building machinery when he spends an eventful lunch hour in an edifice under construction. The giant derrick is his particular pet. See him play poker in mid-air and get a thrill as he leaps from the roof ...
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"This is rather a good Roach short starring James (Paul) Parrott, an underestimated comic by comparison with his more famous brother (Charley Chase). Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy, so there is all the usual nasty violence (but in a situation for once that is intrinsically nasty and violent) and the usual stunts on the scaffolding supposedly high above the Culver City streets, but performed here with a ..."
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Paul finds a new use for building machinery when he spends an eventful lunch hour in an edifice under construction. The giant derrick is his particular pet. See him play poker in mid-air and get a thrill as he leaps from the roof ...