Comedy

Cinema going becoming a national past time. Cinema screening would go on all day. Remember there was not television, audiences would visit the cinema to watch the news reels, the national anthem was played and everyone would stand. A feature film would be on the bill but would be supported by shorter films. Comedians such as Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin amused the masses across the Atlantic, the start of globalisation??



Notice in the Laurel and Hardy clip how the editing is so much more involved. They are still using 'slapstick' techniques as they are coming from the silent era.