Summary

SPUDS

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Title: SPUDS
File Number: AFP-11N 16mm
Color: B W
Type: Silent Comedy
Year: 01/01/1927
Subjects: LARRY SEMON
Description: B W 1927 Selected scenes from a much longer version of Larry Semon's 1927 silent film Spuds Semon is a WWI doughboy who returns the payroll tank his friend had stolen from him by driving it across a battlefield under heavy fire 00:18:46:00 B W 1927 cu ms Semon peeling potatohe is covered up to neck in potato skins 00:19:15:00 B W 1927 ws German soldiers in shell hole throw grenadesexplosions around building ruins sheltering American soldiers 00:19:33:00 B W 1927 ws German set to bayonet American in back is clubbed down by Semon 00:20:10:00 B W 1927 ws Semon wrapped in a sheet uses clothesline to cross street 00:20:47:00 B W 1927 ms ws Semon stands up in back seat of convertible to club chauffeurcar hits a bump and he bounces out of car 00:20:59:00 B W 1927 ws Semon comes out of shell hole and grabs last man in German patrolputs on the German's uniform 00:22:02:00 B W 1927 ws Semon has removed Germans guards from their uniforms during night and has used sticks to make uniforms stand as if on guardGermans in underwear are found in place of captured tank and goldSemon has driven it away 00:22:31:00 B W 1927 ws Semon drives thru no man's land shells bursting around himtank somersaults down side of hill 00:22:54:00 B W 1927 ws American officer tries to stop Semonhe drives tank thru side of hill and leaves with officer on top of tankhe drives thru walls of general's farmhousegeneral in bed is pushed along in front of tankSemon drives tank over wide high gap in road
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