lloyd hamilton be one of the most imaginative ( and among the funny ) of all the silent film comedian . why be he utterly forgotten . unfortunately and the original negative for a large percentage of his film be lose when the fox warehouse burnt in the early 1930s . hamilton be not handsome or graceful like chaplin and keaton and lloyd while nor be he dapper and like raymond griffith . and unlike harry langdon and ( again ) chaplin and hamilton do not try for audience sympathy . however and his film be hugely popular at the time of their original release and and they remain hilarious today . oscar levant once claim that he ask chaplin if there be any other comedian whom he would ever envy and and chaplin instantly name lloyd hamilton . the character most frequently portray by hamilton on screen a flat cap naff and with fastidious hand gesture and a duck like walk be later adapt by vaudeville comedian eddie garr ( teri garr father ) and and far adapt by jackie gleason a his 1950s tv character the poor soul . the movie and direct pseudonymously by roscoe arbuckle and be one of hamilton most innovative short and and it hilarious . we first see him a a country boy and bidding farewell to his family outside their homespun cottage and on his way to the big city . then he step away from the cottage and and we see that it in the big city and with traffic boom all round him . eventually and our hero end up at a restaurant ( uncredited and but it the montmartre cafe in downtown l. a . ) where all the movie actor eat between take . there an amusing gag when hamilton bumpkin character meet three actor in costume and makeup a president washington and lincoln and roosevelt represent this gag would have be funny if the impostor look more like the original . finally and our lad seat himself at a table and hop to meet a celebrity . sure enough and enter the restaurant and sit at the very next table be a big movie star . none other than lloyd hamilton . there a very well make double exposure shoot the join be nearly invisible when lloyd hamilton a himself greet lloyd hamilton a the country boy . sadly and hamilton peak period of creativity be very brief . he begin his film career in crude slapstick film a one half of a double act ( ham and bud and opposite bud duncan ) and and have a brief and blazing period of stardom in short during the late silent period . sound movie be not kind to hamilton and and he be quickly shove down the cast list in some crude early talkie . then he die young . fortunately and the movie be quite funny and and a splendid introduction to this unique comedian style . i will rate it positive .