The Little Teacher
About The Little Teacher
A young teacher, played by Mabel Normand, arrives to face a school full of rough pupils. The tallest, played by Mack Sennett, and the heaviest, played by Roscoe Arbuckle, lead the disruption. Her fiancé, played by Owen Moore, is the man she is waiting on while she tries to hold the class.
Cast & crew
More about The Little Teacher
Mack Sennett produced it for Keystone and is credited as director. Mutual distributed it. Copyright and release date June 21, 1915. Two reels. Working title Small Town School. Shipped to Mutual's New York offices on May 25, 1915. Some credit lists name Arbuckle as director.
Themes
Background
A Keystone comedy released in June 1915, during the stretch when Normand, Arbuckle, and Sennett were still in the same company.
Making
Keystone put its producer, its biggest comedian, and Normand in one schoolroom two-reeler, with Sennett and Arbuckle as the pupils who will not sit down.
Preservation
The film survives. Reduction prints of the 1918 reissue, A Small Town Bully, are in private collections.
Notes
- Mabel Normand plays the teacher. Roscoe Arbuckle plays the fat student. Mack Sennett plays the tall student. Owen Moore plays the fiancé.
- Bobby Dunn, Frank Hayes, and Frank Opperman are in the cast. Billie Brockwell and Vivian Edwards appear uncredited.
- Also known as A Small Town Bully. W. H. Productions reedited it and rereleased it on a states-rights basis in 1918.
- Silent Era notes 8mm reduction prints of the 1918 version in private collections. The film is extant.
Scenes
- Sennett and Arbuckle, as the tall student and the fat student, take over the classroom.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-little-teacher)
