So's Your Old Man | 1926 | Comedy

Title: So's Your Old Man | 1926 | Comedy Director: Gregory La Cava. Studio: Famous Players–Lasky Corporation. Starring: W. C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Kittens Reichert, Marcia Harris. Based on: The short story “Mr. Bisbee’s Princess” by Julian Leonard Street. Release Date: October 25, 1926. Runtime: 67 minutes. Format: Silent, black-and-white, standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1, 7 reels. Country: United States. Language: Silent . Genres: Comedy. --- Chapters: 00:00:00 Sam Bisbee, small-town inventor 00:12:00 Preparing for the auto convention 00:25:00 Windshield demonstration fiasco 00:38:00 Train meeting with the princess 00:50:00 Social reversal in the hometown 01:05:00 Resolution --- Summary: Sam Bisbee, a New Jersey glazier and perennial tinkerer, believes his unbreakable windshield will finally bring success. A botched demonstration at an auto manufacturers’ convention turns him into a laughingstock, and on the train home he crosses paths with a young woman he thinks is despondent. She is Princess Lescaboura, who later uses her status to befriend Bisbee and quietly rehabilitate his reputation, transforming how his skeptical town views him and his family. The film blends broad comic set pieces with gentle pathos, charting Bisbee’s frustrations, family tensions, and eventual social redemption through an unexpected royal ally. --- Background: Produced by Famous Players–Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures, the film was directed by Gregory La Cava and shot at Astoria Studios in Queens, New York. It adapts Julian Leonard Street’s story “Mr. Bisbee’s Princess” and was later remade by Paramount as the sound feature You’re Telling Me! , again starring W. C. Fields. In 2008, So’s Your Old Man was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry for its cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance. --- Trivia: The Library of Congress has screened a restored 35mm print made from the original nitrate camera negative. Much of the production took place at Astoria Studios in Queens, a major East Coast facility for Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount during the silent era. Paramount remade the story as You’re Telling Me! , with Fields revisiting the role in the sound era. The film’s famous windshield demonstration sequence encapsulates Fields’s persona of confident bluster meeting comic catastrophe. Copyright was originally registered on October 22, 1926, by Famous Players–Lasky Corporation . --- Public Domain / Rights: Original Release: October 25, 1926. Original Studio / Distributor: Famous Players–Lasky Corporation / Paramount Pictures. Copyright Status: Public Domain . --- Hashtags: SosYourOldMan W CFields SilentFilm PublicDomain GregoryLaCava ParamountPictures 1926 FilmHistory NationalFilmRegistry ClassicComedy Source page: https: //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:So%27s_Your_Old_Man_(1926).webm Direct media URL: https: //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/So%27s_Your_Old_Man_%281926%29.webm