Tin Hoss

• 1925

COMEDY; featuring kids' gang and a home-made railway. After a fat boy is served with soup doctored with plaster of Paris by two black youngsters, his teeth have to be prised apart. The fat boy is driver of a makeshift locomotive running on lines made from a stolen fence, whose owner, a black woman, complains to the police. Members of the kids' gang attempt to derail the locomtive, and a fight ensues. The intervention of the police brings a temporary respite, but the locomotive and its occupants escape by driving through a fence.