He is the utterly inept janitor in an office building, where an inventor is busy cutting a deal for a new sort of -- well, it looks like it might be a racing car, but it might be a zeppelin. But when Larry is not wielding a broom and forcing everyone into either ducking or taking a pratfall, or dunking an ice cube into the water cooler like an over-sized tea bag, he is fouling up industrial espionage.
Practical Effects
Every prop is a weapon against dignity.
Stunts
Larry Semon nearly dies for your entertainment. Repeatedly.
Direction
Silent-era timing so sharp it still cuts.
Director
Larry Semon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Larry Semon was a forgotten giant of silent comedy who directed, wrote, and starred in over 100 shorts — then died broke and obscure in 1928.
This 1918 'invention comedy' rode the era's obsession with futurist machinery, when audiences genuinely believed zeppelin-cars might happen.
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