Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment....

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks...

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie...

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.

Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly...

Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers.

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

Jimmy Jump gets rather wet.

A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a...

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.

After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and...

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads...

Jamison has a very jealous wife. Mrs. Jamison has a very gossipy friend. When the friend spots Jamison on the street talking to an attractive young...

The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a...

Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their...

Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.

It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she...

Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression...

Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in...

A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.

Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along...

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They...

Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.

Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.

This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne....

Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's...

Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife...

Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid getting married.

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and...

After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook...

Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce...

This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90s. So half of the movie can be seen. It's...

A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.

It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the...

Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are...

Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.

On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.

Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.

Charley Chase has car trouble.

On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car

A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if...

A lightning rod salesman gets in the middle of a western shootout.

The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the...

A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik

Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.

Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs....

Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money. Charlie gets word that a rich uncle...

Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.

Charley Chase movie where Charley wants to go out to have a poker night with the boys but much to his chagrin his wife won't let him.

Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.

A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift...

Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.

Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.

A man goes in hot pursuit of the shoe store clerk he feels has made inappropriate advances towards his wife.

A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man...

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

Charley, a travel agent, finds himself in a situation where he has to humor an apparent lunatic.

Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling...

Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a...

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with...

Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.

Charley's battle-axe mother-in-law breaks up his marriage and tries to separate him from his son. Charlie abducts the boy for a father-son outing to...

Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble.

Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think...

Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the...

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.

Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make...

Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think...

Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.

An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.

A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous...

At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife.

Deep in debt, Charley must marry a wealthy society girl, and attends an afternoon party to announce the engagement. Trouble is, he's menaced by two...

Charley gives his girlfriend a mink coat he was supposed to be guarding for three showgirls; when the ladies want their coat back, Charley goes to...

Charley falls for a waitress who mistakes him for a gangster.

Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife....

A criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up with the somnambulistic thief, it's not quite who...

A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present...

Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.

Charley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her.

Charley's honeymoon is upset by a woman and her jealous husband.

Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.

Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a...

Two guys who own a restaurant get word of a sure thing at the races and bet all their money on that horse; unfortunately, they bet on the wrong horse.

Soda jerk reads mystery stories, fancies himself a master detective.

Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.

To test his wife, Charley's friend puts him up to making a play for her, but she's on to it and pretends she's fallen for him, infuriating the...

Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a...

Charley Chase comedy.

Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her...

After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with...

A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his...

The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by...

This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only...

The two-reel silent film comedy The Caretaker's Daughter was distributed by Pathe in 1925. Produced by the prolific Hal Roach, the film stars the...

Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock,...

Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns...

The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building...

Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the...

Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.

The Keystone gang all in blackface for this one-reeler!

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his...

A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.

Shy Charley tries to win his girl.

Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.

Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. When Andrea runs away and cons Charley into...

A man falls in love with a woman he thinks is a rich lady when in fact she is her maid.

A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.

A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of...

In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything. His father wants him to act more manly,...

Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a revolution there.

In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.

In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife...

Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.

Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.

Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing...

Charley falls in love with Betty on a camping trip.

Charley/Jimmy is a car salesman who takes an unruly family of prospective buyers for a picnic in the woods.

While attempting to hunt a formidable Peruvian Duck, Snub Pollard and Ernest Morrison inadvertently come to the aid of a kidnapped tourist.

Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous.

A man arrives late at his own wedding.

Jimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity...

A 1920 Silent comedy

A man contacts a boxer in order to get in shape.

Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions....

A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.

Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.

Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.

A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents.

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Jimmy Jump is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purposes "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so...

Charley Chase plays the type of character he does best, which is a weak nerd who is constantly letting people push him around. This happens at his...

Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) and his wife find a baby left at their door. They happily take the baby in but find themselves at a loss when they want to...

A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.

A widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise visit. To hide his identity he is introduced as...

Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the...

A car salesman wants to get marreid but has to make one last sell first.

Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Jimmie, is a descendant of the Blue...

'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected...

Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.

Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help him overcome his panicked reflex.

Sent as a missionary to cannibals, Lloyd Hamilton boards a ship, but encounters many problems along the voyage.

Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.

Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family.

Short comedy about airplanes.

Slapstick film about two married couples.

Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre...

Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only...

Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six...

Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.

Sailor 'Snub' Pollard on 'beach leave'.

Charley is hired to haunt a house.

Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the...

Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying...

Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disabuse his wife and daughter of any fondness for...

A bandleader ignores a pretty dancer who fancies him in order to chase after a beautiful, snooty high-society dame.

This movie is the Spanish language version of THE PIP FROM PITTSBURG

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

A Billy West slapstick comedy.

Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.

Although the war is over, Charley still can't seem to find his way out of France.

James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that has been targeted by gangsters running a...

This here is the four-reel Spanish version of Charley Chase's Looser Than Loose.

Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.

Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers to the beach at Venice in California, where the...

Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin,...

'Snub' Pollard and Mildred Davis star in this 1920 comedy short.

A lost short film starring Mabel Normand.

Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his...

A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance...

A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.

In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her boss. An important client arrives from Paris and her...

Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop.

Charley Chase on a boat with girls.

Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.

Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.

When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase...

Charley Chase, a stockbroker, gets rich by mistake, has parking trouble, then at home finds his wife Toots seeing a psychic who apparently causes...

When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.

Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.

Alternate-language version of Girl Shock (1930)

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.

A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.

Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the...

Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.

A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at -- a ladies' seminary.

Across the Hall

Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.

A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is considered to be a lost film.

Thus far Sophie has failed completely as a motion picture actress. She has spoiled every scene, but through the general manager she is to be given...

Love and Salt Water

Soldiers of Misfortune

Such a Cook

Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]

Her Last Chance

Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.

The Anglers

Zip, the Dodger

Dash, Love and Splash

The Love Thief

Stout Hearts But Weak Knees

It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in...

Other People's Business

This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar...

Only a Farmer's Daughter

Droppington's Devilish Deed

Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her...

The will of T.W. Glutz provides that his bashful nephew, Hank, will inherit the entire estate if married by 2 P.M. of a certain date. Hank loves a...

A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).

Charlie stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of crooks when a sea captain attempts to kidnap his...

Her Tender Feet

Don't Rock the Boat

Snub Pollard comedy

A young married couple volunteer to take charge of several orphans after the asylum has burned down. Of course they find their hands full with their...

A Lloyd Hamilton slapstick comedy directed by Charley Chase.

Way Out West silent comedy

Mystic Mush silent comedy

His Best Girl is a silent film comedy

Blue Sunday is a silent film comedy

The Hustler silent movie

In the Movies is a silent comedy short

The Stone Age is a silent comedy short

Jack Frost is a silent comedy short

Her Dangerous Path

A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people...

Jimmy Jump appears as a female impersonator in an amateur show who is forced to wear his costume home. He meets with varied experiences, and is such...

Love's Detour is a 1924 comedy short

Charley looks for a job position but is not anxious to find one. He ends up getting into all sorts of trouble at a masquerade ball.

When Charley's wife buys a bulldog for his birthday present and has a special key made for the room in which she keeps it, trouble begins. He finds...

A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.

Jimmy Jump brings his bride to a new bungalow home, selected and furnished by him. All the neighbors come to call that first evening. The man next...

A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.

Jimmy Jump and his family go to the movies for their regular Saturday evening recreation. Jimmy likes the picture, but his small daughter is bored...

Hard Boiled comedy short

Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to meet with a fortune teller, Julius hatches a...

Many Scrappy Returns

Are Brunettes Safe?

Charley is mistakenly assumed to be a thief

For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice....

Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.

Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's...

Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.

Aching Youth is a silent comedy short

The Fight Pest is a silent movie short.

Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short

Is Everybody Happy? is a silent movie short.

All Parts is a silent comedy short

The Booster is a silent comedy short

Ruby Lips is a comedy short

Off to Buffalo is a comedy short

Loud Soup is a comedy short

Thin Twins is a comedy short.

Charley and Edgar on shore leave in Mexico, fight for the affection of a pretty senorita.

With all speaking French, Chase joins a golf club to win its president's daughter. The game descends into chaos when the other players conspire...

Charley Chase's golf film with all speaking Spanish.

Charley Chase comic short with all speaking French

Locuras de amor is a comedy short from Charley Chase with all speaking Spanish

El príncipe del dólar is an American comedy short with all speaking Spanish

Chercheuses d'or is a American comedy short with all speaking French

Garde la bombe is the French speaking version of a Charley Chase comedy short.

An expanded, Spanish-language version of the two-reel comedy Thundering Tenors (1931).

Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...