Fatty's Tintype Tangle
About Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Fatty, nagged by his wife’s mother, drinks a shot of whiskey and walks out. On a park bench a photographer takes a tintype of him beside a married woman and treats them as a couple. Her husband sees the picture. Fatty leaves town and tells his wife he is away on business. She rents the house to that same couple. He comes home early. The husband is jealous again. Roscoe Arbuckle plays Fatty and directed the Keystone two-reeler.
Cast & crew
More about Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Mack Sennett produced it. Louise Fazenda, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee, and Frank Hayes are billed. Wikidata times the short at 27 minutes. The release date carried with this record is 20 September 1915. The Library of Congress named it to the National Film Registry in 1995.
Themes
Making
Arbuckle stages the jealousy twice: once over a photograph in the park, and again when he walks into his own rented parlor.
Preservation
The short survives and was added to the National Film Registry in 1995.
Notes
- Near the end Arbuckle runs across 17 telephone wires strung close together, 20 feet above the ground.
- The rented house is the wife’s idea. Fatty does not know who the tenants are.
- An Internet Archive copy is filed as silent-fattys-tintype-tangle.
- The whiskey is what gets him out the door. The tintype does the rest.
Awards
- National Film Registry (1995)
Scenes
- A photographer poses Fatty with a stranger on a bench.
- He comes home and finds that stranger’s husband in the house.
- He crosses the telephone wires above the street.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-fattys-tintype-tangle)
