I ran across this clip. It's "Barney Oldfield's Race For A Life", starring the lovely Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, and Barney Oldfield.

This is where "the lady tied to the train tracks and the villain twirling his mustache" first started!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=73JORMGEA3w


Enjoy!

Norman

Pretty amazing! Notice how close the train came.
Mabel wallowed in mud in A Muddy Romance AKA Muddled in Mud. I think it was one of the first mud scenes ever filmed!