《False Alarm (Short 1923)》Storyline
Susan sounded her warning horn to summon Peter, who bravely attacked and killed Maugrim with his sword....Amelia: Of all the driveling idiots.Hurry up and come into breakfast.Harold: I""ll be down in half a tick.On his way to breakfast, a neatly-dressed Harold emerges in the hallway, where one of Norman""s roller skates sits ominously in the lower right half of the frame."After primping together before a mirror in Jake""s apartment before going out on the town on a Saturday night (August 6th), Jake and Joey leave - ostensibly for "business." Warming himself, he looks around at Geppetto""s home and workshop to admire his carved creations (almost all time-pieces of some sort) - lavishly detailed:dozens of ticking clocks (carved wood) hanging on he wallcute little wooden music boxes ("each one a work of art")shelves of toysa lifeless, black-haired, blue-eyed wooden boy puppet ("one of those marionette things, all strings and joints") on a table! ("Cute little fellow!") - with a white shirt and short red pants (with yellow buttons), white gloves, a blue bowtie, a yellow hat with a red feather, and wooden shoesJiminy hears Geppetto coming down the stairs with his fun-loving, self-serving, playful black and white tuxedo cat Figaro.The results of his innocent, personal behavior have much larger consequences.[Note: The popular TV seriesI Love Lucyrevived the hilarious assembly line scene in the episode titled "Job Switching" (aka "The Candy Factory"), aired in the show""s second season in mid-September 1952.