The Auteur's Selection Complementing the Tone of Going! Going! Gone!: Cult Guide

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Egg perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Stan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

The daughter of a member of a duck hunting club is in love with one man, while her father chooses another. Finally the father strives to bring the affair to a proper and just ending by promising his daughter to the one who can bring in the elusive game.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Duck Inn perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

Earl and Joe get jobs in a barber's shop, Earl as a bootblack and Joe as an expert with the razor. Of course, the manicure girls figure in the lively party, and it's a safe bet that all the customers who visit this particular barber shop while Earl shines shoes and Joe shaves faces are going to get everything the shop has to offer but service.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Fast and Furious perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Two playful young ladies make the acquaintance of two idle sons, who follow them, persistently forcing their way into a dancing academy, much against the dancing master's will. One of them gets a bright idea, and with the help of two pieces of mirror and a long pipe making a periscope, watch the dancing lessons. They are much interested in the dance of the seven veils, when the dancing master spies the periscope. He comes down, scares Monte away, and takes his place beside the unsuspecting Joe. Joe finally evades him, the two again resume their persistently in forcing their way into the place, assuming two suits of armor, being brought to the academy. Queer things follow rapidly on top of one another, winding up with the two running, as the picture fades.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

Al is a lazy school-boy with an ape, Napoleon, for his room mate and companion. Their home is outfitted with rather novel labor-savings devices. When Al goes to school, he cuts up with the usual school boy stunts with Napoleon to help.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Love and Lather perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Percie and Ferdie answer an ad for barbers, and to be sure of the job they get there in the middle of the night, sleeping on the steps of the shop. They get the jobs, and the balance of the reel is a burlesque of the daily happenings in a barber shop. It's all good stuff, with a succession of new bits of business. The second reel find the boys preparing to attend Miss Millionbucks' ball. They go attired in stolen uniforms, passing as two friends of the young lady's father. Of course the rightful two arrive and show the boys up. At the moment they are about to be shot for impersonating officers, they wake up - still in front of the barber shop, and the jobs taken.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

The struggles of a rent collector that has to face tenants that are behind on their rent as well as crooks trying to steal the rent he has collected.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

Joe comes to the rescue of his sweetheart's father (who is going broke in the hotel business) with a clever scheme for attracting guests.