Fritz Schade

Dough and Dynamite

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.

Laughing Gas

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

Dangers of a Bride

Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Vernon starring Gloria Swanson.

Those Country Kids

Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court. When a rivaling suitor named Reddy appears, the men fight for Mabel’s hand. Although successful, Roscoe witnesses Reddy fall into a well and instantly calls for help. As the police fish Reddy out of the well, the young lovers see their chance at freedom and run off to elope.

Only a Farmer's Daughter

Only a Farmer's Daughter

Their Fatal Bumping

A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl.

His Musical Career

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

The Face on the Barroom Floor

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

His Prehistoric Past

Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.

Fickle Fatty's Fall

Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.

A Muddy Romance

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.

A Hash House Fraud

A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.

A Submarine Pirate

A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.

Those Love Pangs

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.

The Property Man

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Fatty's New Role

Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.

Leading Lizzie Astray

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

For Better - But Worse

Harry MacCoy's get-up looks a lot like Chaplin's, with his bowler, black cutaway coat and baggy pants, and Mae Busch's outfit certainly suggests Mabel's usual urban outfits -- although hers was fairly standard at the time.

The Snow Cure

The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.

Love in Armor

Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...

Love, Loot and Crash

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.

The Rent Jumpers

The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building and the other by one of his lodgers. The lodger also has a wallet that contains rent money except when it doesn't, and the wallet passes from one pair of trousers to the other at unexpected moments. But neither the landlord nor the owner of the wallet are the central figures here, for The Rent Jumpers is primarily a love story between the landlord's daughter, played by the ever popular Mae Busch, and the lodger's roommate, young Charley Chase.

Settled at the Seaside

Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns the ring and walks away. An older couple has their own squabble: the middle-aged husband, who thinks himself a dandy, is happy to see his complaining wife roll away in a small, unattended carriage. He immediately approaches the younger woman. To make her ex-fiancé jealous, she takes up with the dandy and off they go to swim. What of the wife and the jilted beau? Can things be set right?

Peanuts and Bullets

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.

Colored Villainy

The Keystone gang all in blackface for this one-reeler!

A Lucky Leap

A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.

Hash House Mashers

A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents.

The Surf Girl

Many different people go swimming at a pool at Coney Island.

Wife and Auto Trouble

A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.

His Luckless Love

His Luckless Love, starring Edgar Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid’s new beau.

A Sanitarium Scandal

The sanitarium run by Lallah Hart is in need of repairs and her nephew (Earle Rodney) is broke and after a loan. In her absence (off with her beau) he rents the place out to a group of (presumably) chorus girls (doubling inevitably as bathing beauties) while having to deal with the arrival of his own fiancée (Myrtle Lind) and her parents (the formidable Blanche Payson and Baldy Belmont) who between them provide most of what few laughs there are and a sheriff (Fritz Schade) with a debt to collect.

Her Nature Dance

An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.

A Neighbor's Keyhole

Sunshine comedy of feuding neighbors and the problems caused by snooping.