Mabel and Fatty viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco, Cal. /

Comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The antics of Fatty and Mabel are accompanied by shots of Exposition attractions, including the U.S. Battleship "Oregon", the Australian convict ship "Success" (complete with such punishment devices as a flogging rack and a spiked Iron Maiden), the world's tallest flagpole (251 feet), the Court of Abundance, the Court of the Universe (with sunken garden) and the Tower of Jewels. Fatty and Mabel also visit San Francisco's still-under-construction City Hall, accompanied by San Francisco's then-Mayor James Rolph Jr. Also appearing is opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who kids around with Fatty.
MP313 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Keystone Film Company; 22Apr1915; MP313.
Appearing: Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, James Rolph Jr., Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Duration: about 17 minutes at 15 fps.
According to the card in the M/B/RS Film & Television catalog, the 16 mm. viewing print (copy 2) is a Blackhawk reissue with introductory titles, copied from one of the paper rolls.
Photographed: March 25-30, 1915, in San Francisco, California.
Summary adapted from synopsis on the Internet movie database.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2597) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 196; Walker, B. Mack Sennett's fun factory, p. 316; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed June 3, 2016.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.