Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Directed by Fatty Arbuckle
Produced by Mack Sennett
Starring Fatty Arbuckle
Mabel Normand
Distributed by Keystone Film Company
Release dates
  • January 23, 1915
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.

Production background

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 23 January 1915,[2] before the Exposition actually opened (9 March 1915).

Cast

Plot

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.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition". Silent Era. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Plot Summary for Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition". IMDb. Retrieved 12 November 2012.

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