Actors Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand do some sightseeing at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1915.Actors Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand do some sightseeing at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1915.Actors Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand do some sightseeing at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1915.
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- TriviaIn this short film, at about the 6:45 mark, footage is shown depicting San Francisco's famous Hotel St. Francis, described in a title card as "one of the largest hotels on the west coast." Less than six-and-a-half years after this film was released in April 1915, one of its two stars, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, would hold a Labor Day weekend party at a suite in that very hotel, at which a young actress with whom Arbuckle was acquainted, Virginia Rappe, suddenly became seriously ill. Rappe died four days later, and Arbuckle was arrested and charged with her murder. (The charge was later downgraded to manslaughter.) After three highly publicized trials, Arbuckle was acquitted, but his career never fully recovered.
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Highly recommended to nostalgia and comedy fans.
This short film is both a comedy and an educational film, and works very well both ways as Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take us on a tour of the 1915 exposition's biggest attractions. Frequent co-stars Arbuckle and Normand had great comic chemistry, and there are quite funny moments along the way: Fatty getting popped in the face by Mabel after nearly slamming the spiked Iron Maiden on her, and opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink's horrified reaction when Fatty attempts to sing for her. The film is also priceless as nostalgia, giving us a unique look at an America long vanished, and at a San Francisco still rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake. The film concludes with stunning night-time shots.
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- pmsusana
- Feb 18, 2001
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- Mabel y Fatty en la Feria de San Francisco
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- Runtime9 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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What was the official certification given to Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915) in the United States?
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