Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
About Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Hiram Case (Billy Bevan) is hired man to Burbank Watts (Andy Clyde), whose daughter is Winnie (Lillian Knight). An inventor has a way to run automobiles on radio waves instead of gasoline. T. Potter Doam (Jack Richardson) schemes against that plan and against the family, and Case is left to stop him. The doctored cars end in a chase.
Cast & crew
More about Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Del Lord directed the two-reeler. Jefferson Moffitt and Frank Capra wrote the scenario. William Hornbeck edited. Felix Adler and Al Giebler wrote the titles. Pathé Exchange released it; McBride's Capra biography and the Silent Era listing give 14 May 1925. It was previewed as Bedtime Stories and reissued in 1978 as Super Power Automobiles.
Themes
Making
George Spear and George Unholz photographed it for Sennett. The radio-wave cars are ordinary automobiles played as a gadget comedy, not a laboratory demonstration.
Look
George Spear and George Unholz shared the photography.
Preservation
Prints survive with Blackhawk Films and in private collections, as 16mm and 8mm reductions. The film is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Frank Capra was a Sennett gag man when he shared the script credit with Jefferson Moffitt.
- Lizzie" was slang for a cheap car, usually a Ford Model T.
- The Slapstick Encyclopedia DVD dates the release 14 June 1925, a month later than McBride.
- Blanche Payson is in the cast with Leo Sulky and Vernon Dent.
- Pathé Exchange copyrighted the short in 1925.
Scenes
- The automobiles are shown running without gasoline, rigged as radio machines.
- Doam's scheme against Watts and Winnie turns into a car chase.
Also available
- The Slapstick Encyclopedia (DVD)
