The Backyard is a 1920 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. The short film was made by Vitagraph Studios and preserved in 2018 by the Library of Congress, with a new musical score by Ben Model.
A man lets a group of children shoot arrows at him in an alley game of William Tell. When he tires of being their target, the man separates the children roughly. There is a police chase. Later, dressed as a policeman, the man is asked to stop a "ruffian" who is being mean to a young girl; the ruffian is instead hit by a car.