Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of
comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us
laughing in the cinema. It traces the beginning of comic motion
pictures and the pioneer work of Paul, Gaumont, Hepworth, Pathe and
Zecca. Then comes the picture palace craze and the success of the
early Italian and French comedies and trick films. The work of Al
Christie and Mack Sennett in America, and the rise of American
films, is fully described, as knockabout gives way to slapstick,
and salaries and box-office receipts soar. Now come Chaplin, Harold
Lloyd and all the other bright figures of the Roaring Twenties,
with favourites like Buster Keaton and Will Rogers to the fore. The
development of sound and its effect on the comedians is explained,
and the story comes up to date through the thirties and forties to
1954. Some of the hundreds of names to whom tribute is paid include
Mabel Normand, Larry Semon, Roscoe Arbuckle, Monty Banks, Max
Linder, Harry Langdon, Will Hay, the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope,
Fernandel and Alec Guinness. These are only a few of the many whose
careers are traced. The book is illustrated by a number of
carefully selected photographs, many of which are unique. This
edition, first published in 1968 has been revised but the period it
covers remains the same, 1894-1954, sixty years of film humour.
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