SLAPSTICK • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Slapstick

... follow the eloper over the roofs of the town, upstairs and down, into cellar and attic, and jump into the auto and race over the country roads until the culprit fell over a bridge into the water and was caught by the police. This slapstick humor has by no means disappeared, but the rapid change of scenes has meanwhile been put into the service of much higher aims. The development of an artistic plot has been brought to possibilities which the real drama does not know, by allowing ...

— The Photoplay - A Psychological Study • Hugo Muensterberg