Marcel Perez wants to become a taxi-driver, so he takes a course, which involves driving a car through all sorts of unlikely places in this fairly standard half-reel comedy.
At least, that's what survives of the movie. The film looks to be a half-reel comedy, but the presence of several props in his bed-sitting room -- a set of dumb bells and an archery target -- indicate several gags that don't survive in this print.
Interest in Perez has grown in the past decade, due to the work of film historians Steve Massa and Ben Model. It turns out that Perez worked for Eclipse about 1905 (when he appeared in THE NEAR-SIGHTED CYCLIST), Ambrosiano in the early 1910s, and then came to the United States. Every time he switched studios, he changed his character name, and every time he gave an interview, he told a different life story. As a result, these films were not connected to this single and singular comic until very recently.
At least, that's what survives of the movie. The film looks to be a half-reel comedy, but the presence of several props in his bed-sitting room -- a set of dumb bells and an archery target -- indicate several gags that don't survive in this print.
Interest in Perez has grown in the past decade, due to the work of film historians Steve Massa and Ben Model. It turns out that Perez worked for Eclipse about 1905 (when he appeared in THE NEAR-SIGHTED CYCLIST), Ambrosiano in the early 1910s, and then came to the United States. Every time he switched studios, he changed his character name, and every time he gave an interview, he told a different life story. As a result, these films were not connected to this single and singular comic until very recently.
