The fun starts off with a birthday party at which Fanny gives Charles a watch. The man who makes the presentation speech drops the ticker into a cuspidor.


The first time I watched By Golly!—a nitrate whisper barely held together by vinegar dreams—I felt the room tilt. Mack Sennett, that mercurial ringmaster of custard pies and bathing beauties, had decamped from Keystone mayhem into something more intimate: a pocket-universe where a birthday gift becomes the hinge upon...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Charles Murray

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" The first time I watched By Golly!—a nitrate whisper barely held together by vinegar dreams—I felt the room tilt. Mack Sennett, that mercurial ringmaster of custard pies and bathing beauties, had decamped from Keystone mayhem into something more intimate: a pocket-universe where a birthday gift becomes the hinge upon which matrimony, masculinity, and time itself swing. Fanny’s gift arrives like a sacrament: gold lid snaps open, Roman numerals glinting like cathedral glass. The camera, starved..."
Mack Sennett
United States

1926 · IMDb —

