A tramp sneaks over a fence and tries to steal a pie laid out to cool. As he tries to get away, a dog goes for the seat of his trousers.
More than two decades before Chaplin directed A DOG'S LIFE, here we are with tramp comics and dogs, and one pie, not thrown. People were afraid of tramps in this period, since they seemed to come from nowhere, were not part of the community, and so forth. That made this sort of rough slapstick humor palatable to the sort of people who might lay out pies in the back yard to cool, and perhaps go to see a movie show.
More than two decades before Chaplin directed A DOG'S LIFE, here we are with tramp comics and dogs, and one pie, not thrown. People were afraid of tramps in this period, since they seemed to come from nowhere, were not part of the community, and so forth. That made this sort of rough slapstick humor palatable to the sort of people who might lay out pies in the back yard to cool, and perhaps go to see a movie show.
