Pool Sharks (1915)
- Directed by
- Edwin Middleton
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 41 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent short comedy where a pool game gets animated with stop-motion tricks. It was the first film role for W.C. Fields as a pool player.
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What happens
Pool Sharks (also sometimes known as The Pool Shark) is a 1915 American silent short film. The film is notable for being the film acting and writing debut of W. C. Fields and also features early instances of stop-motion animation during a game of pool. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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