Movies by Marcel Perez

A Bath Tub Elopement

A Bath Tub Elopement

A 1916 short comedy starring Marcel Perez

Tweedledum's Itching Powder

Tweedledum's Itching Powder

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.

You're Next

You're Next

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.

Blowing Bubbles

Blowing Bubbles

A man poses as a lifeguard but his rescue techniques are not the most desirable.

Robinet’s White Suit

Robinet’s White Suit

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)

Tweedledum in Love with a Singer

Tweedledum in Love with a Singer

Robinet brings down the house when he unleashes himself on Mimi Kratzfuss , an attractive opera singer, during a music hall performance.

Pedestrian Love

Pedestrian Love

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.

Miss Tweedledum

Miss Tweedledum

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)

Il duello di Robinet

Il duello di 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)

A Busy Night

A Busy Night

A disgruntled man imagines what the world would be like if everyone were like him.