> Certainly almost all the disabled characters in film from the beginning
> have been played by nondisabled actors. But you might remember the silent
> short in which a man is run over by a car, resulting in a
> supposedly comical dismemberment but not death--a
> real double-leg amputee played that character;  the "freaks" in
 
I assume you are not referring to the Walter R. Booth/Robert W. Paul
short _The "?" Motorist_.  That had a car dismember a cop, but he put his
legs back on and started running after them.
 
Scott
 
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