Useful Sheep

Useful Sheep (1912)

16 Dec 1912 • Documentary, Short
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There are sheep frisking about, then W.H. Roche -- he's the guy who owns the sheep ranch, I guess -- shows off his skill in lassoing the beasts. Then we see them shorn, and they go leaping off.It's a split-reel actuality from Keystone, something they did occasionally in the early days, when, I would imagine, Sennett hopes to issue all sorts of movies. Sometimes the Keystone cameramen took the performers to an event and they did their shticks in front of the events; that's how we got comedies like KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE. Sometimes they cut the comics performing their shticks into footage they had already shot; there's a Ford Sterling comedy which had footage from a local alligator farm edited into it; and sometimes, as here, they just edited it into a straight movie and used it to fill out a reel, like they did here.

Mack Sennett
Director

Writer
W.H. Roche
Starring

Language: None, English
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Country: United States
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