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One of the greatest 'Tossings Things in a Blanket Movies' of all Time!


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Part of the American Mutoscope series of tossing-things-in-a-blanket films, this easily ranks as the best. Not a part of the early "race" films made by and for black audiences, it marks Mutoscope as unique for its early use of black actors, with male lead Chet "Chitterlings" Cale giving an effective performance as an African American man being tossed rigorously and repeatedly in a blanket by a variety of supporting players, including a young Fatty Arbuckle and Mutoscope regular "Handsome" Hans Niemenmayer. Female lead Charity Gooddale has little to do other than look pretty fretting with her lace handkerchief, but one could argue that such is the nature of tossing-things-in-a-blanket movies.

The film opens with Cale and Gooddale enjoying a sleigh ride in what is revealed to be a beach rather than a snowy field. Niemenmayer and Mutoscope contract player Roof Hutchinsen are shown trying to breed a donkey with a horse and become angry when Cale and Gooddale inform them that the "donkey" is actually a great Dane. Blanket-tossing inevitably ensues. Arbuckle, along with a small group of extras, arrive soon after.

The most controversial aspect of the film in its original release was not its title but the surprising display of full frontal nudity by buxom blonde Gooddale, married to Cale in real life, altho this secret was kept from the public for publicity reasons. This is actually what led to the immediate and specific ban on tossing-things-in-a-blanket movies (still in place today, of course), while--ironically--nudity itself continued to be popular until the implementation of the Hays Code in 1934.

Much better than Mutoscope's "Tossing a Snake in a Blanket" (1897) or the disastrous "Tossing a Snake in a Blanket, a Revisitation" (also 1897), which ended with the snake sliding out of the blanket and slithering under a shed (incidentally, this is the same snake, called "Lucky," used in the production of the Wright Brothers' silent film "Tossing a Snake out of a Plane" - American Mutoscope, 1899).

Avoid the awful "Tossing a Pig in a Blanket," a Mueck Brothers' satire of the tossing-things-in-a-blanket genre that merely features two mustachioed men playing catch with a wiener wrapped in biscuit dough.

Accompanied by an original score by Scott Joplin, altho the "Toss That (Negro) Rag" is among his lesser works.
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In re:

Wright Brothers' silent film "Tossing a Snake out of a Plane" - American Mutoscope, 1899

That should be:

Wright Brothers' silent film "Tossing a Snake out of a Plane" - American Mutoscope, 1903

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The 1903 version is a remake that was rushed into theaters to exploit the free publicity related to the Wright Brothers' first flight. In the original, the plane was an early experimental model that was sitting on the ground as the titular snake was being tossed from it.

The remake was thought to be vastly inferior, even relying heavily on stock footage from the 1899 version. Unfortunately, both films are now lost, making critical comparisons impossible. This, however, didn't stop Roger Ebert from once proclaiming both films to be "an astonishment" and "a revelation", respectively.

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