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Tiffany-Stahl production directed by John G. Adolfi and featuring the ever-popular Mae Busch, Jean Arthur, Duane Thompson, Walter Hiers, Charles Delaney, Milded Harris, and JImmie Harrison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX3Q5i_ksAQ

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Little Moritz is hunting big game in Africa in this 1912 Pathe' comedy directed by Alfred Machin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0aYZYiWbE

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Here's a nice video of my old friend, the late David Wyatt introducing a screening of THE WRECKER (1929) at the British Silent Film Festival in Nottingham back in 2003, that concludes with a reading of the end of the original Bernard Merivale play by Neil Brand, Jenny Hammerton, Tony Fletcher and Da...

Don't know if this is the original title of this 1926 Bobby Ray Rayart comedy, but here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPjW_bKufUQ

Like so many independent short comedies, this one has great outdoor locations.

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The Harry Sweet retrospective continues with this Harry-directed RKO-Pathe short spoofing the then-popular radio serial CHANDU THE MAGICIAN featuring Roscoe Ates, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Granger, Jerry Mandy, Bud Jamison and Jack Burdett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ZT2x_8Ec0 I hope somebody tel...

For years this was pretty much the only Essanay Sweedie generally available to be seen (Blackhawk Films had it for sale). Since then, a few more have shown up, but this is still a delightful short in this bizarre series. Wallace Beery, Leo White, Ben Turpin and Bettu Brown round out the cast: https:...

Early RKO-Pathe' Mr. Average man Comedy directed by harry Sweet, featuring Edgar kennedy with Florence Lake, Dot Farley, William Eugene and Eddie Boland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7s9YO08gg

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Pacific Folly Comedy from 1922 featuring George Ovey, Arby Arly and Vernon Dent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnqCZ29MzmM&t=34s

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Harry Sweet-directed RKO-Pathe comedy featuring Frank McHugh and a great cast including Mae busch, Ralph Ince, Jerry Mandy and Frank Austin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fol8Tu3EE30

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Universal Bluebird one-reeler directed by Harry Sweet and featuring Charles Puffy, Billy Franey, George Ovey and Harry Lorraine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7BzilLjs0


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