director: Alf Goulding
year: 1923
country: USA
history notes: Unidentified Film No. 182
alternative titles: Billies großer Reinfall (Lügen haben kurze Beine)

This film has been identified thanks to contributions from members of the Lost FIlms community.

Possibly incorrectly assembled extracts from an unknown American comedy from the 1920's. The story involves an overcrowded, cramped mini-apartment and an excessively grotesque multifunctional mobile home. One intertitle (flash title): "I won't even look - here's a year's rent in advance."

Format: 35mm, 1.33:1
Picture/Sound: b/w, silent
Notes: English flash titles; Fragment combined with Unidentified Film No. 181

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

The lead comedian is Joe Rock, who was a popular comic in the late 'teens and early 1920s, and later became a producer. The large gentleman in one of the scans is Frank "Fatty" Alexander and the woman holding the baby looks like Billie Rhodes. They both appeared with Rock in a series of comedies he made for Grand Asher Pictures in 1922 and 1923. I'll start looking through the trade magazines for a plot and cast that fit this film.

Here's a review from the 8/18/1923 Motion Picture News (pg. 778):

"ROLLING HOME" (Grand-Asher - Two Reels)
Joe Rock enacts some of the difficulties that confront the head of a family with no roof to cover them except for a Ford coupe. The houseless family, in search of quarters, has been done before, and some of the conventional comedy notes common to this type of fun film are sounded here again. But the subject is not without its novel touches. Rock and family travel bag and baggage around in a flivver for one thing - not an ordinary fliv, but one on which is built a full-fledged bungalow, with more equipment than would fill a fair-sized Harlem flat. The ingenuity of the contrivance will probably get as many laughs as the action itself. Then there is an exciting chase in which constables astride of all manner of bicycles - from the motorized variety of 1923 down to the tandem and tricycle of the '70s - give chase to the fleeing bungalow-dwellers. The finish showing the family safely housed in a jail, with pop, mom, brother, sister and baby in striped uniforms, is particularly funny. - E. F. Supple."

Another trade item mentions the director as Alf Goulding. As this was released on the states rights market there's no specific release date, so the info on this film is:

ROLLING HOME (7/1923 or 8/1923) Produced by Joe Rock Productions. Distributed by Grand-Asher. Directed by Alf Goulding. Two reels. Cast: Joe Rock, Billie Rhodes, Frank Alexander.

The main title present in the combined material: "Billies großer Reinfall (Lügen haben kurze Beine) / Original Goldwyn Komödie in zwei Akten" ["Billie's Big Failure (Lies don't travel far) / Original Goldwyn Comedy in Two Acts"] However, the action does not match the information on the German permit card!
(German censorship details: 1922.09.21, B.06547, Jf. ['Jugendfrei' = suitable for young people], 2 Acts, 598m; the permit card survives in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv)
We are looking for the original title, the names of the actors and the year of production.