Pool Sharks
About Pool Sharks
Fields and Bud Ross court Marian West, a picnic turns into a mess, and they settle it with a crooked pool game that becomes a fight. Fields throws a ball, Ross ducks, and the ball smashes a goldfish bowl, soaking West and leaving fish in her hair. She walks into the pool hall and rejects both men.
Cast & crew
More about Pool Sharks
Edwin Middleton directed Fields's first film as actor and writer, shot in New York during the Ziegfeld Follies for Gaumont and released by Mutual, along with His Lordship's Dilemma. Wikidata lists 10 minutes and the year 1915.
Themes
Technique
Stop-motion pieces the pool balls' trick paths together.
Notes
- Stop-motion animates parts of the pool game.
- Fields wears the obvious fake moustache he used in his silent films.
- After these two shorts, his next known film was Janice Meredith in 1924.
Scenes
- The ball flies through the window into the goldfish bowl.
- West rejects both men with fish still in her hair.
Also available
- Internet Archive (pool_sharks)
- Wikimedia Commons (Pool Sharks (1915) by Edwin Middleton.webm)