Father & Son: The Good Samaritans

Year Published: 1983

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: Father and son Eric learn a lesson about how some people will take advantage of a good samaritan. Originally released as Vater und Sohn: Das Gespenst (The Ghost) A ghost manages to scare the wits out of a park full of strollers, including Father. One of several essentially silent vignettes based upon the wordless cartoons Father and Son (Vater und Sohn) byn Erich Ohser (pseudonyrm: E. O. Plauen) .  View also: "Father & Son: The Phantom of the Park" (LINK) About the source material: Father and Son was a generally wordless comic of five or six panels, in which the mustached father and his young son Eric get into and out of various predicaments regarding day-to-day events. The strip appeared from 1934 to 1937 in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, for a total of 157 episodes. In the early 1990s, the feature was also transformed into a children's book series by Iranian publisher, 'Vazheh', which included explanations of the cartoons (in Persian) along with the strip on the opposite page.