Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
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Directed by | Fatty Arbuckle |
Produced by | Mack Sennett |
Starring | Fatty Arbuckle Mabel Normand |
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Distributed by | Mutual Film |
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Running time | 14 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition is a 1915 American silent black-and-white short comedy film, directed by Fatty Arbuckle and starring Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.[1] It was produced by Keystone Studios.
Plot
[edit]Fatty (Roscoe Arbuckle) and Mabel (Mabel Normand) are a married couple visiting the Exposition. Fatty gets in trouble by flirting with a passing woman (Minta Durfee) while Mabel shops. He chases the woman into a hula pavilion and makes approaches to the dancers. He is accosted by both Mabel and the woman's husband; eventually the police are called to straighten the whole thing out.
Cast
[edit]- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fatty
- Mabel Normand as Mabel
- Minta Durfee[2]
- Harry Gribbon as Man in audience at hula show
- Frank Hayes
- Edgar Kennedy as Cop
- Joe Bordeaux as Flirty guy in go-cart
Production background
[edit]Arbuckle and Normand followed the Keystone tradition of showing up at an actual event and using that as background for a largely improvised film. The event in this case was the Panama-California Exposition, held in Balboa Park in San Diego, California in 1915–1916. The film is 14 minutes long. It was released on January 23, 1915.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition". Silent Era. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
- ^ "Minta Durfee Filmography". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition at IMDb
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition at the TCM Movie Database
- Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition available for free download at Internet Archive
- 1915 films
- 1915 comedy films
- 1915 short films
- Silent American comedy films
- American silent short films
- American black-and-white films
- Balboa Park (San Diego)
- Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
- Films produced by Mack Sennett
- Films shot in San Diego
- Films set in San Diego
- Keystone Studios films
- Fiction about world's fairs
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films