Pen And Inklings - Bobby Bumps’ Disappearing Gun (1920)

Animation featuring the character Bobby Bumps. A Bray Studios production. Bobby winds up a strange gun with a crank handle. His dog stands and watches saying: “Too high!“ Bobby lowers the gun and jumps astride it. “Lil’ speed on the snowballs, Fido!“ reads an intertitle. Fido throws up a ball which lands inside the gun. Bobby cranks the gun up again. He fires it and the dog says: “Too low!“ An elderly man walks along a snowy street. Suddenly his top hat falls off. Fido sees what is happening through a periscope device. The man picks his hat up and puts it on, it is suddenly knocked off by a snowball. Dog faces camera and laughs uproariously. The gun is cranked up again and the dog laughs. A black maid walks along carrying two baskets. She gets hit by a snowball too. She turns to face the camera and holds her head. Another snowball hits her on the back of the head and she looks surprised. She spots the gun and crawls towards it. The gun suddenly pops up and she gets a snowball in the fa