Slaphappy Episode 16

• SlapHappy: Vol. 6 (DVD)
  Released 2003. Originally produced in 2001. Includes clips from the following films:
  
  
  More Funshops: Episode 16
  
  
  Help Wanted (featuring Poodles Hanneford) Also Found in Episode  16 
  From Weiss Brothers  CLIP IN Slapsticon 2007 Preview
  
  
  Poodles is a man on a double decker bus trying to get to someone on the bottom of the bus. He does this my having some man hang him over the side. Eventually he falls off the bus onto a cart that rolls down the hill catching the man whom he is after, who stepped off the bus several moments before. 
  
  
  Clowning Around 19 July 2007 | by boblipton (New York City) 
  Poodles Hannaford came from a family that spent centuries as acrobats in thecircus. He developed a collection of tricks that would have seemed to make him a natural for the screen, but his variety of clowning was often so bizarre that it never seemed to work. In this, his simplest film appearance, he is at his best: he plays a character who goes through basic circus clown routines, but he does it without clown makeup and so seems simply human: a fellow down to his last quarter, looking desperately for a job. What could be more human than that?
  
  Unhappily, the time and place mitigated against him: it was 1928, silents were on their way out and he was working for the Weiss Brothers, so this very amusing comedy would lead no place. But for those interested in the history of clowning, you get to see Poodles do some of his famous bareback riding clowning. Still, worthwhile if you get a chance to see it. 
  Christmas (featuring Carter DeHaven) CLIP IN THIRTY YEARS OF FUN
  Years before Chevy Chase sets out to find the perfect Christmas tree Carter DeHaven sets out among the non-white Christmas suburbs to find the same thing only to meet resistance along the way. The first attempt has him swinging an ax at tree on someone’s front lawn. He missies as the man holding the tree walks away. He next attempts to swing his ax at another poor tree when a cop walks into view. In pure Keaton fashion he turns his ax swinging into an exercise routine. He next walks into a tree farm only to have all the potential Christmas trees run away as they are carried off by other Christmas Tree seekers. He finally finds the right tree for .25 cents and brings it home aboard a taxi. As the tree hangs out the door it manages to snag several items along its route in its branches including a white glove, a little dog, a store display and a pocket watch. All the people whose stuff the tree has swiped chases him to his apartment.  The clip ends with him dragging the tree up the stairs to his apartment and 
  hitting some poor passerby in the butt, knocking him over.
  
  
  His Day Out (featuring Billy West) ON YOUTUBE
  Accept No Substitutes or Imitations Author: Alonzo Church from United States 23 December 2011
  Imagine, for a moment, a Charlie Chaplin movie, without Chaplin's timing, light-footed movement, or talent for building gags. The Chaplin tramp is there, the gestures are pretty much the same, as is the pantomime. But our hero is rather flat footed, he moves like a graceless Keystone Cop. And the jokes are ones that you have seen before (for the most part). And the only spark, is the one an unscrupulous movie producer might get from thinking how he might sell this as a Chaplin pictures, if he removes the title cards which fairly label the star.
  
  Imagine this, and you are in the world of Billy West, who looks like Chaplin, and acts something like Chaplin, but does not think like him, or come close to moving like him. In this film, our imitator escapes a couple of cops, and fights for the Mabel Normand imitation with Oliver Hardy (who, in this film, is an Eric Campbell imitation). The dynamic between West in Hardy is more Popeye and Bluto (without the funny gags). The only original jokes involve our heroine's romantic assaults on Hardy's mustache.
  
  Imitation like this is not a great artistic sin. Jazz would not have become what it did if trumpeters did not all imitate Louis Armstrong, and tenor sax players imitate Lester Young. But there is nothing here that need detain a viewer. The novelty of a Chaplin that isn't really funny does not outweigh the fact that the picture really isn't funny.
  
  
  Max And The Quinquina (1911) (featuring Max Linder) ON YOUTUBE Max Takes Tonics
  Max drinks too much of an alcoholic medicine.
  
  
  The Water Plug (1920) (featuring Billy Franey) ALSO IN Accidentally Preserved 
  Billy is on the bum. He sees a copper writing a ticket to a driver parked in front of a fire hydrant. The driver slips the cop some money to tear up the ticket. Billy acquires a fake fire plug and a policeman's badge, and sets out to make some money
  
  
  Heavy Love (1926) (featuring A Ton Of Fun) Also IN Slaphappy Movie
  AND IN American SlapstickA trio of overweight and incompetent carpenters are hired by a young woman to build a house.