''Buzzin' Around'' is a 1933 American
pre-Code
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comedy film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
starring
Fatty Arbuckle, and directed by
Alfred J. Goulding.
Plot
Cornelius (
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle) invents a liquid which makes objects unbreakable and resilient.
Unfortunately he gets the wrong jar when going out to demonstrate his invention. One mishap follows another in this
slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as ...
comedy.
Cast
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Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Cornelius
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Al St. John as Al
* Dan Coleman as Bit Part (uncredited)
* Fritz Hubert as Bit Part (uncredited)
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Donald MacBride
Donald Hugh MacBride (June 23, 1893 – June 21, 1957) was an American character actor on stage, in films, and on television.
MacBride launched his career as a chorister at St Thomas Fifth Avenue and then at Garden City Cathedral in New Yo ...
as Policeman (uncredited)
* Gertrude Mudge as Cornelius's Ma (uncredited)
* Al Ochs as Bit Part (uncredited)
* Tom Smith as Bit Part (uncredited)
* Alice May Tuck as Bit Part (uncredited)
* Harry Ward as Bit Part (uncredited)
Production
Bees were animated.
Outdoor scenes were filmed immediately around
Vitagraph Studios
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907 ...
,
Midwood, Brooklyn
Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, ...
.
See also
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List of American films of 1933
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Fatty Arbuckle filmography
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These are the films of the American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Films marked with a diamond (♦) were directed by and featured Arbuckle. He used the name William Goodrich on the fil ...
References
External links
* https://archive.org/details/BuzzinAround1933
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1933 films
1933 comedy films
1933 short films
American black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
American comedy short films
Short films directed by Alfred J. Goulding
Films produced by Samuel Sax
Vitaphone short films
Warner Bros. short films
1930s American films
English-language comedy short films
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