When Comedy Was King

The film was put together as a compilation. What is in it are comic scenes from the silent era. The compilation brings many performers together. Charlie Chaplin is among them. Buster Keaton is in it as well. Fatty Arbuckle is another name. So is Charley Chase. Laurel and Hardy come in with their scenes too. The scenes are lined up one after another. Most of them are built on falls and chases. That is how the comedy of the period worked. The film gathers all of it into a single work. The account runs like a summary of an era. Robert Youngson put the eighty one minute compilation together. The American production was finished in 1960.