Description

This short film was made in about 1919 by Charles R. Bowers (1889‒1946), a slapstick comedian and cartoonist, and distributed by the American Motion Picture Corporation, as a cautionary tale for troops impatient to return home after the November 1918 armistice that ended World War I. A “laddiebuck” or “laddybuck” was a mildly insulting slang term—a lad is a boy or young man, and a buck here refers to a young horse—hence, this laddiebuck is an ill-mannered youth, like an unbroken horse. He is complaining to his ...