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Here's another little goodie on the UCLA Youtube site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEPNJLeuR8


This footage was turned up years ago by our Al Joy Fanclub group sorting through unidentified nitrates at UCLA years ago.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Were the two Keystone half-reelers A BANDIT and PEEPING PETE derived from paper prints? If so, many paper print silent comedies at the LOC will rival film in future restorations. I was surprised to find out that those two films were filmed in Tijuanna. No, A BANDIT and PEEPING PETE were from a nitr...

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Here's a short silent drama released by Chesterfield Pictures Corp in May of 1925, produced by Colonel William Selig, directed by Paul Hurst, and featuring Hedda Nova and Jules Cowles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaD5RjM-ALQ


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Hi Tommy. No, doesn't look like Joe Roberts to me. Besides, I think he'd been dead for a few years when this film was made. - SteveR Neither of my namesakes are in BRING HOME THE TURKEY, Theodore Roberts only appeared in one comedy short and that's the 1929 Smitty comedy UNCLE'S VISIT, and that's h...

Here's Spanky, Stymie, Darla, Buckwheat and Tom Snyder on an early TOMORROW SHOW broadcast November 12, 1974:

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

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Sad news today that comedian and Oliver Hardy impersonator extraordinaire Chuck McCann passed away today. He was also one of the founders of the Sons of the Desert and a popular NYC Kid Show host. He was also the star of a great 1970's movie, THE PROJECTIONIST. Here's Chuck and Dick Van Dyke doing b...

Also known as TWEEDLEDUM, A SHORT-SIGHTED CHAUFFEUR, released by Ambrosio May 1914, another Marcel Perez European Comedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgREX4VgAw

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Please Michael, can we have some more wait?

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's a rare Our Gang (it was only "rare" never "lost", I've had a print for years, and it wasn't even a one-of-a-kind), released by Pathe' January 21, 1927, directed by Robert McGowan, featuring the Gang with Tom Wilson and Louise Emmons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooFKYT1...

This popped up on the Huntley Archives site today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm4Zl1glnQI The first footage seems to be of Vesta Tilley, then there's rare footage of Alfred Lester on stage (he appears to be doing the Chaplin drunk from MUMMING BIRDS in the first bit), and does anyone out there ...