Happy New Year! (1909)
A man goes out on New Year's Day and is greeted by everyone with "Happy New Year", in the hope of getting a tip. The fellow is so annoyed that he runs into trouble with the law and almost loses his mind.
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Pretty Good
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
This is a very pleasant split reel comedy in which the protagonist is overwhelmed by everyone insisting that he buy some New Year's kitsch -- I've been there myself on New Year's Eve, as well on Saint Patrick's Day.For a split-reel, there's an awful lot of variety in what goes on, from the usual chase, to a plethora of special effects shots. It appears that the final gag was cut on the print I saw on Youtube, but it's not as if anything happened that I really didn't expect. Once the inevitability of the gag is set up, its anticipation before the character can see it provides its own humor.The movie was shot a lot darker than most comedies are usually. This might have been simply a decision in printing it, of course, or it may have been a deliberate choice to add a serious undertone to the complaining tone.