Camping Out | |
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Directed by | Fatty Arbuckle |
Written by | Fatty Arbuckle |
Starring | Fatty Arbuckle |
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Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. [1] The two-reel film was considered lost until recently.[ citation needed ] Most of the film has been reconstructed from reels found in the Nederlands Filmmuseum and Cineteca Nazionale storage vaults in Rome in 2002. [2]
A man runs away from his wife's bad cooking, camps out on Santa Catalina Island, and attempts to do his own cooking. [3]
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd as well as with his nephew, Al St. John. He also mentored Charlie Chaplin, Monty Banks and Bob Hope, and brought vaudeville star Buster Keaton into the movie business. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for $1,000,000 a year.
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