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Mabel's Busy Day

191412 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
12:22
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Mabel Normand · Public domain

Synopsis

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs to spectators at a motor race, negotiating access and struggling to find customers. Leaving her stock unattended gives Charlie an opportunity to distribute it without payment. Her attempt to recover the goods brings police into the dispute, turning a working day at the races into a chase through the crowd.

Cast

DirectorsMabel Normand

Behind the scenes

Normand wrote, directed and starred in the short. The race gathering supplies an active public setting in which her vendor's need to earn a living repeatedly clashes with other people's appetite for entertainment.

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