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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2004 |
21ST CENTURY SILENTS |
| Film Title |
“PIPE DOWN!” |
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| Release Date |
2004 |
| Production Co. |
Moving Pictures Films |
| Director |
Seth Watkins (also sc/concept ) |
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| Digital video |
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| Footage |
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Time |
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2' |
| Archive Source |
Moving House Films. |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles.
bn / b/w |
| Other Credits |
| prod: Guy Thomson; special thanks to: Paul Smith |
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| Program Notes |
| The producer of this slapstick animation, Guy Thomson, writes defiantly: “‘Pipe Down!’ is the only surviving evidence of a screen partnership that captured the hearts and minds of the theatre-going public of the 1920s. Sidney Garnet and Chester Albright floored audiences for over 30 years before their career was cut short in a tragic accident that was to baffle zoologists and dentists alike. Beginning in music hall, like so many silent stars, Garnet and Albright soon established themselves as the ‘Fenwick and Robespier’ of the London stage. Garnet, an eminent proctologist, had come up the hard way, whereas Albright, son of Lord Albright, had always shown a great interest in animal husbandry, until he was caught at it. Famously the duo met at a shop. The move to bring the act to film was not taken lightly; Garnet and Albright cautiously waited to see how Chaplin fared before stepping up and copying him. The partnership lasted only 6 films, 5 shorts and the infamous 22-reeler Today Dog, Tomorrow... Maybe Pheasant?, which was to mark the beginning of the end, and eerily mirror the real-life tragedy that would mark the end of the end. Of the 5 shorts that could have survived, ‘Pipe Down!’ is regarded by experts as ‘probably the best of the bunch, but they were all much of a muchness anyway’, and so here it is presented, as originally intended by its director, in its entirety.” |
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