A silent film comedy that looks like an actual film from the 1920\'s . Complete with musical accompanyment and laughter from it\'s premiere showing at Fire Escape\'s Silent Film Festival on May 14, 2005. More Below: The Great Poker Chase began as a \"wouldn\'t it be cool?\" idea that was destined to go nowhere. Unfortunatley Pedro and Ramiro Castro, students at Illinois-Chicago and University of Chicago respectively, shared their idea with their sketch comedy group Big Dog Eat Child and Mike Larocco of Fire Ecape Films. Working with $400 dollars, an old bolex camera and 6 other ruffians from the Southwest Suburbs of Chicago, Big Dog Eat Child and Fire Escape Films produced an a film akin to the Keystone Kops silent film comedies. The piece was shot on 16mm film and edited on a moviola. Very little editing was done digitally. BDEC\'s URL is http://www.bigdogeatchild.com 1920, comedy, film, silent