Synopsis
Two paperhangers take a job in a sanitarium and apply the wrong material to the walls. Confused instructions, an alcohol-filled urn and the patients' reactions send their work into chaos.
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- Original language
- No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
- This copy runs
- 24:14
- Subtitles
- No subtitle track in this language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.
No subtitle track in this language
Wikimedia Commons · Ward Hayes · Public domain
Cast
DirectorsWard Hayes
Behind the scenes
Oliver Hardy plays the boss opposite Bobby Ray. The short also circulated under the title The Paperhanger's Helper.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 22, 2026.
Photograph credit
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- Oliver Hardy — Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984 · CC0
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