Movies by Marcel Perez
A Bath Tub Elopement
A 1916 short comedy starring Marcel Perez
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
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
A man poses as a lifeguard but his rescue techniques are not the most desirable.
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
Robinet brings down the house when he unleashes himself on Mimi Kratzfuss , an attractive opera singer, during a music hall performance.
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
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
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 disgruntled man imagines what the world would be like if everyone were like him.