Slapstick Blog-a-Thon at Film Year

by Andre Soares

 

Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel NormandFilm Year is hosting a Slapstick Blog-a-Thon between Sept. 7-10, 2007.

"Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton! Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle and Mabel Normand [right]! Hal Roach and Mack Sennett! Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges! Daffy and Donald! Slip-and-fall and the ol’ pie-in-the-face! The Cook (1918), The General (1927), The Gold Rush (1925), Safety Last (1923)…Possibly no other genre gives us more reasons to bust a gut or split our sides with laughter than slipping, tripping, and gripping slapstick. Recent discussions convinced me that there’s a huge pile of slap-films that I need to see. Then I thought, why keep ‘em all to myself? So, I’m inviting the entire blogosphere to join together September 7-10 and let the world know why slapstick is so flippin’ funny!"

Mr. Contrarian — that’s yours truly — probably wouldn’t be the best contributor to a Slapstick Blog-a-Thon discussion, as I usually find most dramas much funnier than the vast majority of slapstick (and/or silent) comedies. But it’s certainly a pretty good idea for fans of the genre.

More on the Slapstick Blog-a-Thon here.

 

Cinecon 2007

Fatty Arbuckle-Virginia Rappe Trial Q&A

San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2007

Cinesation 2007

Colleen Moore and HER WILD OAT

Lou Costello Mini-Film Festival at Fort Lee

San Francisco Arbuckles Up

 

 

 

by Andre Soares | August 7, 2007 | Filed Under American Cinema / Hollywood, Film, Silent Films 

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One Response to “Slapstick Blog-a-Thon at Film Year”

  1. Thom on August 7th, 2007 5:39 pm

    Thank you for spreading the word about the Slapstick Blog-a-Thon, Andre. If you really are Mr. Contrarian, I invite you to share your anti-slapstick opinons with us during the blog-a-thon because we’re as interested to read why you dismiss slapstick as much as why many others favor it.

    Thanks again for sharing the blog-a-thon with your readers.

    Thom

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