Bangville Police

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Movie
Original title Bangville Police
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1913
length 7:15 minutes
Rod
Director Henry Lehrman
production Mack Sennett
for Keystone Studios
occupation

Bangville Police is a 1913 American silent film directed by Henry Lehrman .

action

The farmer's daughter takes care of the cow and tells her father how nice it would be to have a calf on the farm. A short time later she sees two strange men in the stable and thinks they are criminals. She notifies the police in the neighboring village and the police chief, who was awakened from his afternoon nap by her call, tries to reach the farm together with the sheriff by car, but has problems with the car. Another group of policemen rushes to the farm armed with dung forks and shovels.

The farmer's daughter barricades herself in her room. When her mother tries to enter the room, she exclaims "Burglar!" In panic, which makes her mother think there are burglars in the house. She alerts her husband, who gains access to the room armed with a pistol and finds his frightened daughter hidden in the closet. The arriving police believe that the father is the criminal, but the farmer's daughter draws attention to the two strange men in the cowshed. Together they all go into the stable and find a calf there that the farmer's daughter immediately takes to her heart.

production

Bangville Police is one of the earliest films to feature the Keystone Cops and is considered to be a trailblazer for more Keystone Cops films. The comedy was shot in March 1913. It had its world premiere on April 24, 1913 and was shown as a split reel with the Sennett film A Fishy Affair .

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Individual evidence

  1. Contrary to the frequent spelling The Bangville Police , the article is missing in the film opening credits and in the intermediate plates .