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Robinet ricattatore (1912)
Character: Robinet
Marcel Perez and Nilde Baracchi are blackmailers engaged in the badger game: each gets a member of the opposite sex into compromising positions, the other partner takes a photo and snap! Pay up or we tell your spouse.
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Tweedledum's Auto-Skates (1911)
Character: Robinet
Tweedledum tries out his roller skates down a slope. As he picks up speed he grabs a long pole, which causes him to destroy everything in sight. The townspeople chase after him as he crashes into everything.
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La signorina Robinet (1912)
Character: Robinet
Robinet disguises himself as a woman to get away from his girlfriend’s husband, and discovers the unexpected pleasures of public drag amidst mobs of flirtatious men. (MoMA)
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Robinet aviatore (1911)
Character: Robinet
Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bone-breaking, so much so that it makes Keystone slapstick look like drawing-room comedy by contrast.
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La nuova cameriera è troppo bella (1912)
Character: Robinet
The new maid and her mistress devise a plan to foil the men in the house. ...[The mistress of the house finds her chambermaid using her toiletries.]... She is dismissed and the lady advertises for a new maid. The new maid arrives at the front gate and the bemused gate keeper lets her in. The page boy sees her walking up to the house and admires her beauty. She is shown in to meet her new master, who also admires her, and mistress.
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L'abito bianco di Robinet (1911)
Character: Robinet
In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (MoMA)
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A Busy Night (1916)
Character: Nearly Everyone
A disgruntled man imagines what the world would be like if everyone were like him.
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Camouflage (1918)
Character: Twede-Dan
A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.
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You're Next (1919)
Character: Twede-Dan
A hapless nitwit sets up his living space in the middle of a street, then moves to a police station, then gets a job in a movie studio, with calamitous results.
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Some Hero (1916)
Character: N/A
When Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.
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Sweet Daddy (1921)
Character: Tweedy
Perez plays a henpecked husband who is chained at the neck by his wife in the kitchen and when he tries to stand up for himself, she throws him out of the window where he is dangling for dear life.Once she sends him to the store, Tweedy becomes smitten by a stage actress and tries to woo her with great success until his wife shows up on the scene and all hell breaks loose with cartoon gags.
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Les Mésaventures d'un cycliste myope (1907)
Character: N/A
The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure follows misadventure with great frequency, but the cyclist comes up smiling every time, mounts his machine, and again resumes his journey. Accidents which would maim or kill an ordinary mortal serve only to spur him on to fresh exertions in a mad search for physical inconveniences and dangers, which always present themselves. (Picture World)
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Chickens in Turkey (1919)
Character: Twede-Dan
Marcel Perez is taken aboard an all-female crewed boat where he has to dress as a woman so the female captain won't claim him as her own.
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La Prima Bicicletta di Robinet (1910)
Character: Robinet
Tweedledum's attempts to master the bicycle lead him into situations both thrilling and comical, and the ride proves most adventurous. He barely escapes with his life, and causes a mad scramble on the part of pedestrians who cross his path.
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Le furberie di Robinet (1911)
Character: Robinet
Tweedledum wears his sister's new slit-skirt, and with a handsome wig and beautiful hat, causes a stir on the boulevard. His many admirers follow him around from place to place and even invade his parlor when he gets home. His sister puts them to rout with a stout broom and she and Tweedledum enjoy a hearty laugh over the joke.
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Una Dichiarazione Impossibile di Robinet (1912)
Character: Robinet
Marcel Perez meets Nilde Baracchi at a party and falls instantly in love. How much comedy short subjects have contributed to the 'falling in love at first sight' trope might make an interesting paper. Anyway, he falls in love, but things go wrong at the party, then again when he waits outside her apartment -- today we would say he was stalking her. Back then it was considered cute, particularly given the indignities of Italian slapstick -- and when he finally meets her again on a train.
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Robinet ricco per dieci minuti (1912)
Character: Robinet
Marcel Perez is so poor he can't even tip the janitor for some service or other. However, a messenger arrives with a telegram from a notary. An uncle is dead and has left Marcel a hundred thousand francs! With a huzzah and skips and falls and smashing of his old junk, Marcel is off to equip himself in the latest and most expensive fashion, waving the telegram like Mark Twain's Million-Pound Note to gain the instant obsequiousness of tailors, haberdasher and hatters. But wait, why is that messenger following on Marcel's trail? Could it be another telegram? What could it possibly say?
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Robinet padre e figlio (1912)
Character: Robinet
Tweedledum goes out dining with a girl. He discovers that his worthy father is out on a little lark and is in the next booth to him. Many amusing complications result and in the end the old man buys his son's silence by paying both checks.
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Robinet in vacanza (1912)
Character: Robinet
Marcel Perez arrives at the holiday resort wearing a pith helmet and carrying enough luggage to hold supplies for a monthlong journey through hostile territory. It's a good idea for a comic who never met a flight of stairs he didn't fall down.
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Robinet Pescatore (1915)
Character: Robinet
Nilde Baracchi sends Marcel Perez out fishing, armed .... I mean "equipped" with a long, sturdy bamboo fishing pole and a line and hook. However, what he catches is not fish in this funny late 'Robinet' short.
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Robinet Reporter (1913)
Character: Robinet
Marcel Perez is, as you might guess from the title of this movie, a reporter. He's been assigned a new story: a general is in town to review the troops. Get an interview! The general does not wish to give an interview, so Perez has to resort to subterfuge. Good thing he's a comic and can raid the studio's wardrobe department for disguises.
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Il prurito di Robinet (1910)
Character: Robinet
Fricot finds his father asleep and takes advantage of the opportunity to pour down his parent's hack a handful of itching powder. The poor man's antics in attempting to relieve himself of his distress are ludicrous and finally result in incurring the wrath of his wife and her mother, who set upon him and beat him until exhausted. To his amazement he discovers that the blows have a salutary effect and he submits to the thrashing. When the women finally leave him alone he arises well pleased, as his affliction has been overcome.
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Il duello di Robinet (1910)
Character: Robinet
Robinet is challenged to a duel, but owing to an overpowering fear, ludicrously depictd, the weapons are discarded, one by one, and two bottles of champagne subistituted. (Moving Picture world Synopsis)
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Lash of the Law (1926)
Character: N/A
Jim Stanley becomes an ally to Mona and Phil in their dispute with the stepfather. Phil is wrongly accused of murder and Jim assists him in proving his innocence. Ultimately, the stepfather is arrested for the murder of Phil and Mona's father, bringing him to justice resolving the central conflict.
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Delenda Carthago! (1914)
Character: N/A
In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall. Cato, a Roman Senator, appealed to the Senate to conquer Carthage, and under a pretext that she had failed to keep faith, the Romans began a new war. The Roman army embarked for Africa and landed near Carthage.
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La police en l'an 2000 (1910)
Character: N/A
From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)
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Amor Pedestre (1914)
Character: Robinet
The story of the meeting and falling in love of a man and a woman. The story is told by showing the characters from below the knees only. A man in smart shoes prepares to go out. His maid gives him his coat, he dusts off his shoes and leaves. As he leaves the building an elegant woman drops her purse. He returns it to her and follows her home.
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Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (1913)
Character: Saturnino Farandola
Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of Mysora the beautiful. On land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches, but nothing will be able to stop his desire to explore.
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Robinet boxeur (1913)
Character: Robinet
Robinet gets punched by a boxer in the ring and decides to challenge him for a match. To win, he needs to train as much as he can.
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