Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
About Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Married Fatty and Mabel spend a day at the Panama–California Exposition. While Mabel shops, Fatty flirts with a woman passing by. He follows her into a hula pavilion and starts in on the dancers. A cop and the fairground crowd close in.
Cast & crew
More about Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Arbuckle directed. Sennett produced. Mutual released the one-reeler on January 23, 1915. Working title: Fatty and Mabel at the Fair. It was shot on the grounds of the exposition and shipped toward New York on January 11.
Themes
Making
The background is the Panama–California Exposition in Balboa Park, open in 1915 and 1916. The comedy was built on the spot rather than on a studio set.
Preservation
A print exists.
Notes
- Minta Durfee is the woman Fatty follows. Edgar Kennedy plays a parade cop. The company followed its habit of improvising in front of a real event.
- The same year Keystone also made Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco.
Scenes
- Fatty follows a flirt into the hula pavilion on the exposition grounds.
Also available
- Internet Archive (1915RoscoeArbuckleMabelNormandFattyAndMabelAtTheSanDiegoExposition)
