Days of thrills and laughter

Duration: 93

Year Published: 1964

Creator: Carousel Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Hollywood at its zaniest sparks this film with Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Pearl White, Mary Pickford, and Fatty Arbuckle. Thrills, perils, and chases are produced by the swashbuckling Fairbanks, the poignant Pearl White, and the master magician Houdini when he saves his heroine from a near fatal plunge over Niagara Falls., Excerpts from the silent comedies and melodramas of Charles Chaplin, Pearl White, Mack Sennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Laurel and Hardy, George Melies, Harry Houdini, Boris Karloff, and others.

Complete Record: Hollywood at its zaniest sparks this film with Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Pearl White, Mary Pickford, and Fatty Arbuckle. Thrills, perils, and chases are produced by the swashbuckling Fairbanks, the poignant Pearl White, and the master magician Houdini when he saves his heroine from a near fatal plunge over Niagara Falls., This compilation film presents a history of Hollywood's silent screen era with emphasis on comedy and adventure films. The invention and artistry of early movie makers is demonstrated in the comic antics of Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Kops, Mack Sennett, Snub Polland, Harry Langdon, Laurel and Hardy and Ben Turpin. Thrills and adventure are captured in films featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Pearl White, Mary Pickford and Fatty Arbuckle. In one suspenseful sequence, the magician Houdini rescues a damsel atop Niagara Falls. , , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.