A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Roscoe Arbuckle (left). Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle [the husband], Corinne Parquet [his wife], Agnes Neilson [her mother], Alice Lake [a girl in the park], Al St. John [her beau], Jimmy Bryant [the newsreel director], Luke the dog

Comique Film Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [Paramount-Arbuckle Comedies]. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Roscoe Arbuckle, from a screen story by Joe Roach (Joseph Anthony Roach). Scenario editor, Herbert Warren. Assistant director, Dave Anderson. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / Released 21 May 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation studio in New York, New York, and on-location at Palisades Park amusement park in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy number A-3102. The film was rereleased in the USA in September 1920. [?] Tom Meyers maintains that portions of the film were shot against an exterior wall of the Triangle studio at Main Street and Linwood Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey, which might suggest that this film and A Reckless Romeo (1916) are the same production, begun under Triangle and completed for Comique.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 19 May 1917, page 1153] Fatty takes his family to a moving-picture house, where to his horror an indiscretion (a dalliance with a girl) is revealed on the screen before his mother-in-law.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive]; and in the Norsk Filminstitutt film archive [identified 1998].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Amusement parks - Animals: Dogs - Film-within-film - Motion picture theaters

Listing updated: 3 December 2024.

References: Film viewing : Ball-Shakespeare pp. 218, 357, 389; Bardèche-History p. 117; Dardis-Keaton p. 285; Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 261; Miller-Comedies p. 16 : Website-GEM; Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia : with additional information provided by Tom Meyers.

Home video: DVD.