The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship (1902)

Directed by

Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A tramp uses an airship to get into comic situations. It is a silent short film from 1902 based on a newspaper cartoon character.

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What happens

The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship is an American silent short film produced and directed by Edwin S. Porter and released in 1902. This film is an adaptation of the cartoon Happy Hooligan, played by J. Stuart Blackton. The Happy Hooligan films are a series of live-action comedy shorts which were produced from 1900–1902 by Edison Studios, and may be the first adaptation of American comics into film. A series of several dozen animated shorts, which were produced by at least three different studios, from 1916–1921, were also based on the Happy Hooligan character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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