Tweedledum as Aviator
About Tweedledum as Aviator
Robinet (Marcel Perez) builds a flying machine shaped like a fish and takes it up over a town. An anchor trails behind, knocks chimneys off, and lifts people by their clothes. The machine turns over. He falls through the floors of a building and ends in a police cell.
Cast & crew
More about Tweedledum as Aviator
Luigi Maggi directed Robinet aviatore. Marcel Perez, the Spanish comic billed as Robinet and in English as Tweedledum, plays the pilot. Itala released the short in 1911. Listings give about 5 or 6 minutes.
Themes
Making
Maggi staged the flight as a series of wrecks: chimneys, pedestrians, then a fall through a house, rather than a view from a real cockpit.
Preservation
A short print survives.
Notes
- The Italian title is Robinet aviatore.
- Perez used the names Robinet in Italy and Tweedledum on English copies.
- The machine is a prop with a fish-shaped body, not a real aircraft.
- A review of the print describes the anchor tearing the tops off buildings before the crash through the floors.
- The last shot puts him in a cell, which ends the flying career.
Scenes
- The fish-shaped machine drags an anchor across the rooftops.
- Robinet drops through one floor after another.
- Police lock him in a cell.
