Jerry on the Job: Without Coal
★ 8 · 1920 · 3m · Comedy · Animation
Animated film based on the comic strip "Jerry on the Job" - a man on the station platform tells Jerry Flannigan and Mr. Givney that he knows how to run a train without coal.
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