Johnny secures a job at a grocery store with the help of Brownie, who tries valiantly to cover up his young master's many mistakes..

Alfred J. Goulding
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Imagine, if you will, a world where the clatter of a tin can ricochets like a bullet through cathedral-high aisles of crackers and condensed milk. That world is Short Weight, a one-reel miracle that Alfred J. Goulding stitched together in 1922, when most studios were still fumbling with the grammar of visual comedy. ...
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Alfred J. Goulding

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" Imagine, if you will, a world where the clatter of a tin can ricochets like a bullet through cathedral-high aisles of crackers and condensed milk. That world is Short Weight, a one-reel miracle that Alfred J. Goulding stitched together in 1922, when most studios were still fumbling with the grammar of visual comedy. The film is only eighteen minutes long, yet it carries the emotional ballast of a Russian novel and the kinetic snap of a Buster Keaton set-piece—except the real star is Brownie, a..."


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