A Noise from the Deep
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A Noise from the Deep is a 1913
comedy short
starring Mabel Normand
and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The film was directed by Mack Sennett
and also features the Keystone Cops on horseback. Mabel Normand throws the first pie
known to ever be thrown on film in this ten-minute short about a gorgeous farm girl (Normand) in love with an obese farmhand (Arbuckle); the charming country couple wants to get married but are delayed by her father's insistence upon her choosing a different suitor.
The movie was the first pairing of Mabel Normand and "Fatty" Arbuckle, who went on to become a sensationally popular romantic screen team and made more than a dozen films together (writer/director/actress Normand, the most prominent silent movie comedienne, was an equally frequent partner and mentor of Charles Chaplin during the same period).
A Noise from the Deep still exists and was screened four times in 2006 in the Museum of Modern Art
in New York City
as part of a 56-film retrospective of all known surviving Arbuckle movies.
1913 in film
The year 1913 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* The Squaw Man, the first Hollywood feature film, is made.* December 29, Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.* D. W...
comedy short
Short subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
starring Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...
and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The film was directed by Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
and also features the Keystone Cops on horseback. Mabel Normand throws the first pie
Pieing
Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at a person or persons. This can be a political action when the target is an authority figure, politician, or celebrity and can be used as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against perceived arrogance or vanity. Perpetrators...
known to ever be thrown on film in this ten-minute short about a gorgeous farm girl (Normand) in love with an obese farmhand (Arbuckle); the charming country couple wants to get married but are delayed by her father's insistence upon her choosing a different suitor.
The movie was the first pairing of Mabel Normand and "Fatty" Arbuckle, who went on to become a sensationally popular romantic screen team and made more than a dozen films together (writer/director/actress Normand, the most prominent silent movie comedienne, was an equally frequent partner and mentor of Charles Chaplin during the same period).
A Noise from the Deep still exists and was screened four times in 2006 in the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York City
New York City
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as part of a 56-film retrospective of all known surviving Arbuckle movies.