Lotta Coin's Gold (alternatively Lotta Coin's Ghost) was a short supernatural spoof released 1915 from Kalem. This was one of the studio's Ham and Bud comedies. The Ham and Bud duo was made up of Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan. The comic pair lasted for 3 years at the company from 1914 to 1917; almost none of the films are known to have survived. This little comedy at least has a number of very detailed descriptions that describe the action from start to finish. It had Ham and Bud attempting to steal a nearly priceless necklace from a safe, and in the process getting spoofed by the heiress to whom the necklace belongs. Upon realizing that there are intruders in her home, she decides to don an all white sheet and scare the bejeezus out of them. The plan works so well that they flee the house in chaotic fright, and in doing so, Bud accidently gets himself entangled in another white sheet on a clothesline. Ham sees this and gets terrified all over again. As soon as he realizes the ghost is actually his side-kick, he chases after him and the film ends. Ham and Bud were early versions of comic duos that appeared in horror like comedies all the way up through the 1960's. Good examples can be found in the Abbott and Costello Universal monsters films of the 1950's.
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