Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)

Fatty and Mabel, a married couple, visit the San Diego Exposition; after watching the parade, they rent a motorized cart. While Mabel makes a quick shopping foray, Fatty can't keep from flirting with and then chasing after a petite woman passing by. He follows her into a hula pavilion where he also is attracted to the plump Hawaiian dancers. Meanwhile, Mabel is looking for him, and so is the petite woman's husband. The ensuing arguments attract the cops, and it all plays out in front of the Exposition's fountain.

[@jasonnstegall]

Nice to see the Mutual tag at the end. Most of the extant (remaining in existence) Keystones had that edited out for many reasons - in some cases as early as when they were rereleased during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918!

[@geoforn]

The crowd seem to have a lot of fun watching the filming. Also, 11:52 must be the first Chaplin impersonator ever.

[@aedwardmoch1226]

A nice clean reel of Roscoe and Cousin Mable... something to show My San Diego Cousin's. :)

[@thesavagechef]

Love this. Interesting to this fashionista, how some of the extras were clearly wearing corsets, at a time when girls were ditching them for a more natural silouhette. And how the heck were those wicker carriages propelled?

[@UnknownBalboaPark]

The carts were real and they were electric. As of a year or so ago, they have a fleet of reproductions running in the park.

[@UnknownBalboaPark]

@@mel_bee they no longer have the reproduction carts in the park, but they were exact copies of the originals.

[@geoforn]

The first time the tramp showed up was in February 1914, in "Mabel's Strange Predicament" and in "Kid Auto Races in Venice."

[@MicahMicahel]

No I was wrong. I guess Mack Sennet, even though he had Charlie under contract chose to get someone to impersonate him. Most likely, being the notorious cheapskate he was, he didn't want to pay Chaplin any extra money.

[@NYHERALD]

This film is 1915. Chaplin only made movies with Keystone before 1915. They might have been mad at him.

[@thesavagechef]

And wasn't that the real Chaplin, not an impersonator? I mean, this was 1915

[@aedwardmoch1226]

At that time... Chaplain was still developing his character and Cousin Mable had him under her wing, which could explain his presence there, but briefly.

[@fadoodle]

No, that wasn't Chaplin. I believe it was Billy West, a silent film comedian, the best-known and most successful imitator of Charles Chaplin's "Tramp" character.

[@josephcalderon906]

+Michael Taylor No, you're all wrong! the man in the little tramp outfit is keystone regular harry mccoy. he usually played the romantic suitor or the rival of the hero vying for the girl's hand.

[@NYHERALD]

He had left Keystone. Maybe it was spite.

[@MicahMicahel]

I think this was before Chaplin even had his tramp character costume. They developed it at the Sennet studios and once he put it on he 'owned' it.

[@NYHERALD]

This was after.

[@gregoryagogo]

So violent!

[@TheHarryleemartin]

Funny you should say that; I kept hearing Judge Judy say, "You put your hands on her!" :-)

[@gregoryagogo]

A little disturbing!

[@51pogo]

People were more “touchy-feely” back then!