Seeing the World
About Seeing the World
The gang doses the schoolteacher’s water with a sleeping potion. James Finlayson dreams he has won a trip to Europe and that the children have come along. They pass through Venice, Rome, Pompeii, Naples, London, and Paris. On the Eiffel Tower a pigeon takes Farina’s tooth; Farina goes after it on the railing, Finlayson tries to help, and both fall. He wakes.
Cast & crew
More about Seeing the World
The 57th Our Gang short, also called A Roamin’ Holiday. Robert F. McGowan and Anthony Mack directed. F. Richard Jones and Hal Roach produced. Richard C. Currier edited. Pathé Exchange released it on 13 February 1927. Stock shots include David, Prince of Wales, French president Gaston Doumergue, and Yusef of Morocco.
Themes
Reviews
Stan Laurel later wrote: “That ‘Seeing the World’ is a very bad film, plus the print—I felt sorry for Finlayson practically working alone with nothing funny to do—He made every face in the book in this one!!”
Look
Art Lloyd photographed the short, which uses stock footage of European streets and public figures.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A surviving copy runs about 19 minutes 30 seconds.
Notes
- Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Johnny Downs, Allen Hoskins (Farina), Scooter Lowry, Jay R. Smith, and Peggy Eames play the children. Jean Darling is an extra at the pier.
- Stan Laurel appears as an English pedestrian. He later wrote that the film was very bad and that Finlayson, with nothing funny to do, “made every face in the book.”
- Charlie Hall plays an English chauffeur. Ed Brandenburg plays a window washer.
- A copy attached to the Wikipedia article runs 19 minutes 30 seconds.
Scenes
- The children pour a sleeping potion into Finlayson’s water.
- A pigeon takes Farina’s tooth on the Eiffel Tower railing, and Farina and Finlayson fall.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Seeing the World (1927).webm)
Quotes
That 'Seeing the World' is a very bad film, plus the print—I felt sorry for Finlayson practically working alone with nothing funny to do—He made every face in the book in this one!!
