Ernesto Vaser gets a job as a shop assistant in a draper's, where every bolt of fabric must be examined before the lady chooses the first one she looked at. Vaser's erratic and weird course of actions indicate he is the only employee in the store, so he has to do everything himself, including serenading the clientele.
It's a decent comedy, albeit not one that will win any fans for Vaser. It has some historical interest for the fans of film comedy. It was directed by Marcel Perez. A decade ago, no one knew anything about Perez. People knew there was a great Italian slapstick comedy called Robinet (in some translations), from about 1911 through 1915; and another called Bungles in 1915 and 1916; and an American slapstick comic and director called Twede-Dan or Tweedy from about 1917 though 1923; and there was this anonymous comic who appeared in several great French comedies about 1905 through 1910. But no one ever realized they were all the same person, a guy who was probably named Marcel Perez, was probably Spanish, and who died in 1929. That's because at first, no one got a credit in a movie, and then the studio owned the name the character appeared under.
So here's an early directorial credit for him. It's not particularly great, but he would get there, and in short order, too.
It's a decent comedy, albeit not one that will win any fans for Vaser. It has some historical interest for the fans of film comedy. It was directed by Marcel Perez. A decade ago, no one knew anything about Perez. People knew there was a great Italian slapstick comedy called Robinet (in some translations), from about 1911 through 1915; and another called Bungles in 1915 and 1916; and an American slapstick comic and director called Twede-Dan or Tweedy from about 1917 though 1923; and there was this anonymous comic who appeared in several great French comedies about 1905 through 1910. But no one ever realized they were all the same person, a guy who was probably named Marcel Perez, was probably Spanish, and who died in 1929. That's because at first, no one got a credit in a movie, and then the studio owned the name the character appeared under.
So here's an early directorial credit for him. It's not particularly great, but he would get there, and in short order, too.
