Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton practically co-star with Arbuckle Directing this slap stick short. Molly Malone is the other most noticeable co-star though there are some garage customers thrown in for good measure. There is not a lot of story here, but here is what the gags are hung around.
Fatty & Buster run a combination garage/firehouse. At first, all their problems are related to the garage, in some interesting gags like the falling apart car (which would be used again many times in later films) to the slipping & sliding around on a wet greasy garage floor causing all kinds of havoc. There is a spinning turntable large enough to park a car on thrown in for good measure.
Then, things get more chaotic as the fire alarm goes off & while Fatty & Buster chase on out, the firehouse goes up in flames behind them. The Kino edition I watched of this has some segments in black & yellow & a few in black & white. By the looks, the yellow sections seem to be in better condition picture wise, though I am not sure the coloring was intended or if this is just the state of the films preservation.
Arbuckle & Keaton are practically co-stars in this one with one seeming to top the other in each slap stick sequence. This may well have been intended as Keaton was a key gag contributor to this one.
Fatty & Buster run a combination garage/firehouse. At first, all their problems are related to the garage, in some interesting gags like the falling apart car (which would be used again many times in later films) to the slipping & sliding around on a wet greasy garage floor causing all kinds of havoc. There is a spinning turntable large enough to park a car on thrown in for good measure.
Then, things get more chaotic as the fire alarm goes off & while Fatty & Buster chase on out, the firehouse goes up in flames behind them. The Kino edition I watched of this has some segments in black & yellow & a few in black & white. By the looks, the yellow sections seem to be in better condition picture wise, though I am not sure the coloring was intended or if this is just the state of the films preservation.
Arbuckle & Keaton are practically co-stars in this one with one seeming to top the other in each slap stick sequence. This may well have been intended as Keaton was a key gag contributor to this one.