> 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 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.