Introduction -- The beginning -- The Keystones -- Up from Keystone -- The dashing American -- Comedy's golden twenties -- The Thrillers -- The serials -- Thrills and laughter -- Three for the road.
Excerpts from: The bath chair man, France. 1904 -- Keystone Cops and bathing beauties / Mack Sennett -- The adventurer / Charlie Chaplin -- The cure / Charlie Chaplin -- Wild and Woolly / Douglas Fairbanks -- [scenes of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they became a team] -- [Ben Turpin playing checkers with Cameo, the Wonder Dog] -- [Harry Langdon in a World War I comedy] -- Man from beyond. Houdini rescuing a heroine from the brink of Niagara Falls -- [serial queens Pearl White and Ruth Roland escaping from countless dangers, including Warner Oland and Boris Karloff] -- Play safe. Monty Banks and his girl friend trapped on a runaway train -- [Charlie Chase in one of his early comedies] -- [excerpts from the comedies of Al St. John and Snub Pollard].
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