The Sounds of Slapstick

The silent film tradition of the art of slapstick carries over into the sound era in this compilation of many of the finer practitioners making comedies during the first decade of the Talkies.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• slapstick comedy
• Laurel and Hardy
• Buster Keaton
• W.C. Fields
• Marx Bros
• Charley Chase
• Our Gang
• Wheeler and Woolsey
• Three Stooges
• Charlie Chaplin
• Harold Lloyd
• Clark and McCullough
• Harry Langdon
• film compilation
• Ted Weems
• Heartaches

[Grockclown]

Thank you!!! They are still the best.

P.S: Just found out you were the one who did the video of the train ride, so I have to double thank you.

[LowbrowProds]

@Grockclown

You are double welcomed.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@Alstheman37 If you haven't seen it, you MUST look into the documentary When Comedy Was King, highlights all the silent greats and even that by itself is funnier than ANY movie you'll ever see done today. I was in a film class in college that opened us up with 'be prepared to be shocked, appalled, disgusted, etc' and oh boy were we. Now if I were teaching a film class, I'd make it about these movies back when films were still good and genuinely funny. That's what we need more of.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@Alstheman37 Amen to that. People ought to check out more of the old movies. I've seen a LOT of funny stuff but the single FUNNIEST movie I've ever seen is W.C. Field's It's A Gift. I'm also a very BIG Buster Keaton fan and most of his best work is in his silent days true, but as fantastic as he is solo (there's just NOBODY who can throw himself around like Buster can), he must also be seen with his original partner Fatty Arbuckle, they were SENSATIONAL together! Cont...

[Alstheman37]

It's a crying shame they don't do comedy like that no more!!!

[hulotati]

Magnifique! Every single one of those guys from Laurel & Hardy to Clark & Mccullough are absolute comedy geniuses. Bravo !