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Ollie introduces Hadji Ali to his house guests. |
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Hadji Ali and assistant start filling
glasses with water. |
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Hadji Ali starts starts gulping down all the water. This goes on for about a minute and a half. |
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The butler (Jim Finlayson) looks on
incredulously. |
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Hadji Ali now regurgitates all the water
he has imbibed... |
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...some of which ends up on the flabbergasted
Jim Finlayson. |
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Hadji Ali now takes a tray of nuts.
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Slowly and deliberately he swallows
the entire tray of nuts in full view of the camera. |
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He lets the camera examine his mouth,
under his tongue, over his tongue... |
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Yes, all the nuts have been swallowed.
(This is 1931, before the days of sophisticated trick photography.) |
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He gulps down some more water. |
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Hadji Ali now spits the nuts back onto
the tray, one after the other... |
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...and then spews out the water he
had swallowed. |
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For a humorous touch he spits out one
last nut ... |
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...and laughs along with his audience. |
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Now comes the climax of his act. He
carefully ties his headdress together... |
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...gulps down another pitcher of water... |
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...puts on some protective goggles... |
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...and gulps down a bottle of kerosene! |
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Behold!! |
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He proceeds to regurgitate the kerosene onto a
burning model of a house! |
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He repeats this several times, wiping his mouth and arms carefully after each spraying... |
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...he then douses the conflagration
with the water he had swallowed earlier! |
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Hadji Ali! The audience applauds enthusiastically. |
