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Paste and Paper

Paste and Paper

January 13, 1923 (102 years ago)

Overview

Well executed but unexceptional one-reeler about a couple of incompetent paperhangers. James Parrott, brother of Charley Chase, was an equally skilled man behind the camera, later writing and directing some of Roach's best two-reelers, before he died too young, but while the gags here are well done, he never really developed much of a personality in these pieces and they are not, somehow, quite as sharp as the stuff he was co-starring in with Sid Saylor two or three years before. The extended gag with the plank of wood seesawing is typical.

ActorAge thenAge now
James Parrott

James Parrott

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Birthday: August 1, 1897

25 May 10, 1939 (41)