Speed Boys

This may be a Century Kids comedy, one of many Our Gang-inspired kid comedies made during that successful Hal Roach series run during the '20s. One of the kids is a little toddler named Arthur Trimble who later in the decade starred in the title role of the Buster Brown series. Anyway, I noticed many of the gags involves accidental black grease going on white peoples' faces. Since there seems no harm intended, it's excusable and I was amused enough. (Though I admit the white paint on the black boy's lips did give me pause.) When the leading kid character starts running his father's train, the music score stopped and the appropriate sound effects were playing. I'll just now say this was quite entertaining considering some of the location shots that may no longer exist now since this film is now a little more than a hundred years old. So on that note, if you find this on YouTube as I did, I say give Speed Boys a look.