Small Rabbles
the Small Rabbles ( Our Gang , The Little Rascals or Hall Roach' S Rascals ) was American series of short films of comedy, having for subject the adventures of a band of the poor children. Created by the producer Hall Roach, the series begins in 1922.
The series, one of most known and most successful in the history of cinema, is noticed by the presentation of children behaving in a relatively natural way. Contrary to the practices of the cinema of then, where the children actors were often toilets to imitate stereotypes and manners of adults, to illustrate scenes of flight, or to provide “nice” moments. Hall Roach and Robert F. McGowan (the first director) worked to film the not-disguised nuances and risings specific to the children. The series is also famous to have placed whole of the boys, the girls, the white and the blacks, in a group as equal; the “crossing of a new step” according to the historian of the cinema Leonard Maltin. Such a thing had not never taken place before in the cinema, but was common thereafter, after the success of the Petites Rabbles .
The series knew thereafter, of many adaptations: films, drawing-animated…
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