Coney Island (1917) Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (part 2 of 2)

Coney Island (also known as Fatty at Coney Island) is a 1917 short silent film comedy written and directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The twenty-four minute film follows Arbuckle's antics at Coney Island, the New York City amusement park and beach resort, where he sneaks away from his wife to enjoy the attractions, gets a rival for another woman arrested, and disguises himself as a woman. The Keystone Kops are also featured.

Coney Island was filmed before Keaton had fully established his screen persona. Because of this, he employs a wide range of facial expressions, including mugging and laughing, differing drastically from his subsequent unsmiling, but still eloquent, expression.

Arbuckle breaks the fourth wall in one scene where, about to change his clothes, he directly looks at the camera and gestures for it to raise its view above his waist; the camera obligingly does so.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Coney Island
• 1917
• Fatty Arbuckle
• Roscoe
• Buster Keaton
• silent
• comedy

[OldNoir]

Many thanks for uploading!

Funny film, I enjoyed it.

[MissGoldenDreams13]

Two of the best things in the world happen at the same time in this video- the song "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" and Buster's adorably boyish laughter.

[TheBookWorm1718]

3:59 Fatty looks good as a woman, and convincing no less!

[TheBookWorm1718]

2:39 Holy crap, it's the thin man from the sideshow!

[TheBookWorm1718]

That's so funny in the beginning, early breaking the 4th wall, like in Buster's short One Week, when his wife's taking a bath and trying to reach something on the floor and somebody puts their hand up over the camera.

[glassoniongirl64]

aww - poor little buster. :'(

[flipside1545]

fatty was sooo cool!!!