The ARBUCKLE COLLECTION
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FATTY ARBUCKLE at KEYSTONE Vol. 1
Roscoe Arbuckle, affectionately known to the world as "Fatty" Arbuckle, was probably Sennett's first major discovery and it was Arbuckle who took the Keystones to the next level in comedy development after Sennett got it started. Certainly he was a major influence on Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, who all got their start in Arbuckle films. "FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT" is classic era Arbuckle with developed characters, superior photography, and exciting climaxes. "FATTY JOINS THE FORCE" speaks for itself with Roscoe becoming a Keystone Cop . Unfortunately he gets no respect from the local kids in the neighborhood and winds up in jail himself! In "THE SPEED KINGS" , Roscoe is at odds with Ford Sterling in a race car track setting. "THE WAITER'S BALL" co-stars Al St. John in a typical Arbuckle gag-fest. Roscoe is next cast as a boxer who must fight Edgar Kennedy, the Keystone Cops and a troublesome referee played by Charlie Chaplin in "THE KNOCKOUT", and also featured is "HE DID AND HE DIDN'T" co-starring Mabel Normand and Al. St. John.
(A-40) B & W silent w/music...........approximately 2 hours total..........$19.98 plus shipping and handling

FATTY ARBUCKLE at KEYSTONE Vol. 2
Fatty has mother-in-law problems, then wife problems with a flirt. The flirt's husband returns and the chase is on! "FATTY'S TIN-TYPE TANGLE" provides us with the typical domestic farce style of comedy so precedent during this era. Edgar Kennedy who would go on to fame in his own series of domestic comedies co-stars along with Louise Fazenda. In "FATTY'S FAITHFUL FIDO", Roscoe and Al. St.John try to eliminate each other as rivals for Minta Durfee in a Chinese laundry. Roscoe siks his dog, Fido, on Al to gain the edge! In "FATTY'S NEW ROLE", he plays a tramp who masquerades as a saloon owner but is mistaken for a mad bomber.
(A-41) B & W ...........silent with music score added...approx. 1 hr........$12.98 plus shipping and handling

FATTY ARBUCKLE at KEYSTONE Vol. 3
A frequent policy of Sennett was to utilize an event such as a car race or an exposition with elaborate sites and large crowds as a back-drop for an impromptu comedy. This gave a look of production on a limited budget. "FATTY & MABEL AT THE SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION" is such an example. Some Royal Hawaiian dancers at he Hawaiian Village end up in a free-for-all with the local police! "FATTY AND MABEL'S SIMPLE LIFE" has Mabel being forced into a marriage she doesn't want. After many comic situations, she and Fatty are able to be happy. "MABEL & FATTY'S WASH DAY" portrays them as married but not to each other. Mabel's husband is lazy and won't help with the laundry. Fatty is already doing his laundry and when he and Mabel get their things mixed up, the suspicions and "mix-ups" begin! In "MISS FATTY'S SEASIDE LOVERS", Arbuckle plays the bloated rich man's heiress who must out-wit "her" father when suitor's flock around the hotel and beach they are vacationing at. Among the suitor's is young Harold Lloyd who, along with the others, must rescue Miss Fatty when a wave sweeps "her" away. It will take a strong arm to pull this gal out of the ocean! Also on this offering is "THE ROUNDERS" in which Arbuckle and his side-kick Charlie Chaplin play a couple of top-hatted drunks who go out on the town much to the anger of their shrewish wives who chase them into the local park lake where they fall asleep in the row boat! Roscoe has a guest role in "MABEL'S DRAMATIC CAREER" in which Mabel Normand runs away from the farm to join a movie company in the bug city. When her former suitor, played by Mack Sennett, sees her in a mello-drama with Ford Sterling he gets excited and shoots up the theater only to discover that the villain in the movie, played by Ford Sterling, is her husband in real life.
(A-42) B & W  silent with music score added.......approx 90 minutes.....$12.98 plus shipping and handling

FATTY ARBUCKLE at KEYSTONE Vol. 4
"MABEL, FATTY & THE LAW" (1915) is another domestic farce which made Keystones so popular. Two errant husbands flirt with their maids only to get caught. They go to the park where they encounter each others spouse. The cops enter the scene to enforce the "no spooning allowed" rule and the fun begins. Mabel Normand co-stars. "FATTY'S PLUCKY PUP" (1915) is not to be confused with "Fatty's Faithful Fido" (from Vol. 2) though both were made the same year. Arbuckle plays an incompetent son living with his mother. He sets fire to his bed, drops mother's laundry in the mud, and makes more trouble than help for her. Later he takes his girl to the amusement park where she's kid-napped by crooks. But Fatty, his plucky pup, and the Keystone Cops come to the rescue. In "WISHED ON MABEL"(1915), she and her mother are at the park when Fatty comes along and off he and Mabel go together. A park bandit steals mother's watch but loses it. Fatty finds it and gives it to Mabel. The crook comes back and demands "his" watch! Mabel's mother comes along and identifies it as her watch. Well, you can imagine the ensuing scuffle! In "FATTY AND THE BATHING BEAUTIES"(1915), Mabel and Fatty are trying to have a nice day at the beach only to have a pesky masher bothering all the girls including Mabel. In a jealous fit, the masher releases a rope holding an air balloon that Mabel is about to ride in but Roscoe can't hold on and Mabel is up and away in a runaway air balloon. He and the Keystone Cops are off to the rescue! On her own without Roscoe ,Mabel gets engaged to one fellow with mama's approval in "MABEL LOST AND WON" but a female siren attempts to lure him away by feigning an illess at the engagement party while her cohort keeps Mabel occupied as well. The siren is exposed when her husband and kids turn up and Mabel realizes that her fiance' was set up and all is forgiven.
(A-217) B & W  silent with music score added........approx. 1 hr. ......... $12.98 plus shipping and handling

FATTY & MABEL
More classic Keystones! In "MABEL'S WILFUL WAY", while having lunch with her parent, Mabel is grossed out by the onions her mother is eating. She leaves and meets Fatty at an amusement park. They go on several amusement rides and eat food without paying for it. Mabel's parents go searching for her and get in a squabble with Fatty's friend, Edgar Kennedy before finally discovering their daughter's whereabouts. In "THAT LITTLE BAND OF GOLD", Mabel & Fatty get married and Mabel's mother moves in on them. Some set up! One evening, the women are waiting for Fatty to arrive home and take them to the opera when Fatty shows up drunk! They go anyway but Fatty spots a friend with a lovely date and intermission time finds Fatty and his best friend's girl in a restaurant where Mabel & mother show up and the romp is on!. In "MABEL & FATTY'S MARRIED LIFE", they are newlyweds sitting in the park when visited by a monkey that belongs to an organ-grinder who puts a curse on them! Back home a mysterious intruder is discovered and the Keystone Cops are called in to find the trouble. Finally Mabel Normand co-stars with Charlie Chaplin in "MABEL'S MARRIED LIFE". Also appearing are Mack Swain, Charlie Murray, Hank Mann, Harry McCoy and Alice Davenport. In this film, Charlie and Mabel are in the park when Charlie decides to go into the bar for a drink or two. Mabel is left alone sitting on the bench when flirtatious Mack Swain tries to pick her up. Charlie returns but is no match for the large Mack Swain. Mack's wife shows up and she IS a match for her wandering husband! Back at the bar Charlie gets drunk while Mabel has a boxing dummy delivered to their apartment. Charlie returns and, in a drunken state, thinks the boxing dummy is Mack and starts to fight with it!.
(A-43) B &W silent with music..approx 1 hour total...................... $12.98 plus shipping and handling



LEAP YEAR - Full length feature
This rarity shows us how well Arbuckle was able to handle a feature length comedy format. Roscoe give a lively performance as an energetic, stuttering millionaire involved in a marriage plot.
(A-881) B & W.......sound..............approximately 65 minutes........ $12.98 plus shipping and handling
 

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Fatty and Mabel take viewers on a tour of the 1515 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Attractions at that tine included the U.S. Battleship "Oregon" (which currently would be banned from the city!), the Australian convict ship "Success" complete with such punishment devices as a flogging rack and a spiked iron maiden (these would be welcomed in San Francisco today! But not just for convicts. Fatty and Mabel also tour and see the world's tallest flagpole, the Court of Abundance (which Nancy Pelosi would immediately redistribute her way), the Court of the Universe with sunken garden, and the Tower of Jewels. Fatty and Mabel also visit Frisco's City Hall which was still under construction at the time accompanied by then-Mayor James Rolph, Jr. Also appearing in this short film is opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink.