Klebolin Sticks to Everything
About Klebolin Sticks to Everything
Willy, a schoolboy played by Curt Bois, smears the glue Klebolin where people will sit: on classmates' trouser seats, on a park bench, and on a wooden fence. Each victim sticks.
Cast & crew
More about Klebolin Sticks to Everything
Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers directed. Alfred Duskes produced in Berlin. Charles Paulus was the cameraman. The alternate title is Willys Streiche: Klebolin klebt alles. The censorship length was 170 or 185 meters, about 9 to 10 minutes at the silent speed then in use. Berlin police cleared it for children on April 13, 1909, certificate 2951. Tinting a print cost 10 marks. Ernst Behmer and Victor Colani are in the cast. A 2012 DVD copy runs 3 minutes.
Themes
Making
Duskes built the short around one prop. Paulus photographed the bench, the fence, and the schoolboys so each new victim is readable in a single view.
Look
Charles Paulus shot the pranks so the glued seat, bench, and fence read in medium and long views. The release prints were tinted.
Preservation
The censorship length was about 9 to 10 minutes. The copy on the 2012 DVD Der komische Kintopp runs 3 minutes. A print is also posted for viewing.
Notes
- The German title Klebolin klebt alles means "Klebolin sticks everything." The glue's brand name is the joke.
- Curt Bois, then a child actor, plays Willy.
- Release prints were tinted. The tinting charge was 10 marks.
- On July 20, 2012, absolut MEDIEN and arte put a 3-minute copy on the DVD Der komische Kintopp, with other early comic shorts.
Scenes
- Willy coats a classmate's trouser seat with Klebolin.
- A sitter on the park bench, and then a passerby at the fence, find they cannot get free.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-klebolin-klebt-alles)
- Der komische Kintopp, absolut MEDIEN / arte DVD (2012)