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| director = [[Henry Lehrman]]

| producer = [[Mack Sennett]]

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| starring = [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Fatty Arbuckle]]

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'''''Help! Help! Hydrophobia!''''' is a [[1913 in film|1913]]American [[Short subjectfilm|short]] [[comedy film]] featuringstarring [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Fatty Arbuckle]].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HelpHelpHydrophobia1913.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Help! Help! Hydrophobia! |accessdate=June 15, 2009|work=Silent Era}}</ref>

The film is also known as '''''The Chemist'''''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LES FILMS MUETS DE MACK SENNETT |url=http://www.lesgensducinema.com/biographie/MACK%20SENNETT.htm |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=www.lesgensducinema.com}}</ref>

==Plot==

The Professor resents Jim Brown courting his daughter. Jim accidentally feeds the dog a milk culture the Professor has been experimenting on, and the Professor believes that the dog is infected with deadly germs. Everyone runs away from the dog.

==Cast==

The cast includes:<ref name="Factory">{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Brent E. |title=Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel |date=2010 |publisher=McFarland Inc. |isbn=9780786457076 |page=279 |url=https://archive.org/details/macksennettsfunf0000unse/page/278/mode/2up |access-date=20 February 2024}}</ref>

* [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle]] -: Jim Brown

* [[Viola Barry]] - (as Peggy Pearce)

* [[Beatrice Van]]: Professor's Daughter

* [[Nick Cogley]]: Professor

== Reception ==

The film was said to be "exceedingly funny".<ref>{{Cite web |date=1914-10-22 |title=Republican and Herald from Pottsville, Pennsylvania |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448111598/ |access-date=2024-07-07 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[List of American films of 1913]]

* [[Fatty Arbuckle filmography]]

==References==

{{reflist}}

==External links==

*{{imdbIMDb title|id=0002940|title=Help! Help! Hydrophobia!}}

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[[Category:American1913 comedy films]]

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[[Category:1910s English-language films]]

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