The efforts of a couple with a boy of about five years old to find a flat, and the humorous situations that ensue in their attempts to keep the landlady from getting wise. When the child gets chicken-pox, his parents are thankful that they will at least not have to move for twenty-one days.
Hal Roach
In the pantheon of silent-era slapstick, few motifs resonate with as much contemporary anxiety as the struggle for habitable space. Hal Roach’s 'No Children' is not merely a collection of pratfalls; it is a frantic, celluloid manifestation of the urban squeeze, a comedic treatise on the exclusionary pol...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Alfred J. Goulding
Alfred J. Goulding
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" In the pantheon of silent-era slapstick, few motifs resonate with as much contemporary anxiety as the struggle for habitable space. Hal Roach’s 'No Children' is not merely a collection of pratfalls; it is a frantic, celluloid manifestation of the urban squeeze, a comedic treatise on the exclusionary policies of the 1920s rental market. The Proletariat Pantomime Snub Pollard, with his iconic downward-curving mustache and an air of perpetual bewilderment, serves as the ..."
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