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The Bangville Police

19138 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A farmer's daughter hears noises in the barn and calls the police, believing thieves are nearby. As she barricades herself inside, confusion at the farmhouse meets the police force's chaotic journey to the supposed crime.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
8:35
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Henry Lehrman · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsHenry Lehrman

Historical context

The short is an early defining appearance of the Keystone Cops. Mabel Normand's alarm and the rescuers' disorder turn a rural misunderstanding into a frantic emergency.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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