| Camping Out | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Fatty Arbuckle |
| Written by | Fatty Arbuckle |
| Starring | Fatty Arbuckle |
Release date |
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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]
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