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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Mabel and Fatty guides us to the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair
This is a wonderful time capsule of Mabel and Fatty at the height of their fame guiding us through the sights of the San Francisco World's Fair of 1915. See Fatty try to impress opera singer Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink with his "warbling". See him almost trip as he and Mabel are walking down some steps with Mayor James Rolph, Jr. See Mabel slap him for almost closing the Iron Maiden (which has spikes on the back of the door) on her! We also see a ship that brought some prisoners from England to Australia with heavy chains on them and a nighttime view of the fairgrounds including that of the 1915 building entrance. Definitely worth a look for documentary and silent movie buffs.
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- Jul 27, 2007
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- Runtime9 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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