Khan Academy: Mack Sennett, 'Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life'

This video [1:48] discusses the silent film "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" was made in 1913, directed by Mack Sennett, and is your quintessential chase film. This film has every single comedy chase trope that you could ever want; So you have three modes of action occurring all at once: the handcart, the locomotive that is racing towards the same spot, and Barney in the car. You have the interrelationship of futurism to the cinema.