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1930s comedy compilation of 1920s slapstick gags. 'Once upon a time when the movies were young'. Traffic cop talking to driver of large car. Man wearing cowboy hat rides off on (presumably) cop's motorbike. Cop gives chase. Chase sequence filmed from back of car backwards. Man on motorbike is pursued through crowded city streets. Passes trams, drives along tram tracks. Man stands on pedals to look where he is going. Car and three motorcycle cops chase him. Man on bike pulls alongside car and jumps on and in through side rear window. 'It mattered not who won or lost so long as the chase was fast'. Camera pulls back to reveal front end of car with chauffeur in. 13 people get in, car drives off to reveal it is very long. Lots of people get into large charabanc. Long stretched car drives down road. Front wheels wobble. [Cut] Man sitting on beach throws something beyond camera. Other man has large lobster attached to his backside. Girl and Billy Bevan try to remove it and flap about. Billy pulls lobster off but kicks man who runs and falls across pond and who grabs rick in middle of pond. He forms a bridge. Billy and girl pull man's feet but he nearly falls in pond. [Cut] Two men run to car in a hurry. They do not notice driver is cross-eyed and tell him to drive. He looks aghast as he drives. We see double vision, two merging images of the road. He uses the horn. Men in back of car frightened. Car filmed from front as it drives along busy street in hectic manner. [Bad scratches and scuffs on frame here]. [Cut] to pond scene. Billy climbs on man and kneels in small of his back. He crawls to island. He lifts man's arms and they stand up leaning on each other. [Cut] Cars. More frightening driving. Car jumps over a train, animated. Driver smiles and salutes. Man stands in road with sign 'Stop. I.B. Sheriff'. Car drives through him and he falls in ditch. Driver uses horn and looks behind him. Sheriff gets on bicycle and pursues car. Split screen of revolving image of four sheriffs on bike. Bike takes short cut and gets in front of car. Bike and car zigzag across bridge. Man on bike crashes through fence. Steering wheel comes off in cross-eyed driver's hands. [Cut] park scene. The rock moves and Billy and man slide lower to pond. [Cut] gag where very small garage has four cars and hay cart exiting. [Cut] black cat sits near fence. Dog sees cat and runs after cat. Dog is tied to woman's wheelchair. Four people chase after her. People get in car which is supported scaffolding from which men fall when car is driven off. Man carries boxes across plank and falls over when wheelchair goes by. Chair rushes in front of tram. Billy Bevan drives car and soaks pedestrians. Car crashes through boxes. Car tips over, people fall out. Woman in chair calls for help. Men right car. Man directs traffic and chair hits him. He sits on woman's lap. He falls off. Car hits him and knocks him (animated) in air. Billy lassos woman in chair round the neck. He pulls, the driver brakes and the woman is pulled from the chair. [Cut] Pond. Girl fetches plant. [Cut to Iron Nag'] Cops leave county jail in car and fire guns. Horse race. Car knocks line of spectators off fence. Horses jump fence. Police drive though fence. Horses take water jump. Police drive through water. Car hits Billy Bevan from behind. He is (animated) into the air and land on back of riderless horse and rides it. He is in stripy prison uniform. [Cut] car drives into large pond and occupants fall out. [Cut] girl with plank has trouble getting through trees. [Cut to 'Car Shy' 002451] Motorbike and sidecar ride through house and chase men. Mend in sidecar kicks other man over who ends up doing a hand stand against the wall. Bike chases men round in circle. Bike drives over man on floor. Man is knocked over, he gets up and statue falls on his head, he collapses again. Bike and sidecar ride up stairs. Men chase bike. Bike comes downstairs. Men do somersaults off the stairs to avoid it and land on their heads. Man in sidecar gets covered in curtain. Man runs out of front door and starts engine of truck. People in back of truck are thrown about. Open-backed truck trails steps on road. Man awaits bike and sidecar by leaping over table.