An old man is given a powder in a glass by a doctor. He heads off to a spring to get some water for it and soon accumulates a crowd of curious followers.
This split-reel comedy is a small thing, perhaps a meditation on the chase comedy, in which a comic accumulates a horde of angry people by disrupting their lives. Here, he marches on deliberately, minding his own business, disrupting other people simply because they are bored by a suffragette's speech, or need to have an excuse not to continue a fist fight.
Fortunately, because it is less than half a reel, it doesn't go on long enough to be boring,
This split-reel comedy is a small thing, perhaps a meditation on the chase comedy, in which a comic accumulates a horde of angry people by disrupting their lives. Here, he marches on deliberately, minding his own business, disrupting other people simply because they are bored by a suffragette's speech, or need to have an excuse not to continue a fist fight.
Fortunately, because it is less than half a reel, it doesn't go on long enough to be boring,
