Childish Films: Slapstick!! April 17, 2010

Watch two hilarious slapstick comedies starring Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, preceded by a vaudevillian solo clown performance by 14 year-old Gabriel Cole-Brant from the Mini-Apple Circus

* Number Please?, Hal Roach, 1920. At an amusement park, Harold Lloyd as his "guy in glasses" character competes for a girl's affection with another man. 25 min.
* One Week, Buster Keaton, 1920. Two newlyweds are given a kit to build a house in one week. A rival switches the numbers on the boxes, and Buster Keaton builds a house that's inside out, backwards, and on the wrong side of the tracks. 19 min.