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LE GENDARME EST SANS CULOTTE (The Policeman has no Pants) Gaumont 1914 directed by Louis Feullade. Feuillado-philes may spot others of his stock company; since it's about a movie troupe borrowing a gendarme's trousers, there's a pretty good chance that some of Feuillade's regulars are there. Marcel ...

Hope you like chimps! http://europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/detail/Napoleon+and+Sally/video:NGIyYWY5MWYtZGViNC00NmUzLTgwYmYtM2YxMTUxYTVkNDVkX1VtVndiM05wZEc5eWVWTmxjblpwWTJWU1pYTnZkWEpqWlhNdlVtVndiM05wZEc5eWVWTmxjblpwWTJWU1pYTnZkWEpqWlZSNWNHVT06OmF2Q3JlYXRpb24xOTE0LkZpb21vdGhlYy5ubC9FWUVfYXZDcmVhdGlv...

Quick film journal footage of Harold and Mildred visiting "Doorn House on the occasion of 'Herminen-Hilfswerk' bazaar". Nothing amazing, but I'd not seen it before. http://europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/detail/Mr+Harold+Lloyd+besucht+Haus+Doorn/video:NGIyYWY5MWYtZGViNC00NmUzLTgwYmYtM2YxMTU...

AT BEAR TRACK GULCH (Edison 1913). Housman is a background player here, as well as Robert Brower, but he is in quite a few of the scenes. A mining community gets a new schoolteacher, similar to a Broncho Billy plot; the students of course are adults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd8W49Wp4zE

A nice little feature from Sol Wurtzel at Columbia, directed by James Tinling (did they meet at Fox doing the Chans?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjEfFy7MnRU with a great cast: Don Castle, Peggy Knudsen, Joe Sawyer, Jeff Chandler (as 'Knucles'), Charles McGraw, Charles Lane, Paul Guilfoyle, Jame...

NFPF has recently posted a few more comedies: OH! WHAT A DAY 1923 Andy Gump http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/oh-what-a-day In addition to those credited I believe there is also Tiny Sandford and possibly Ernie Adams (on coach/chair in lobby near stairs) SNOOKY'S TWIN TR...

I think it also looks like Mildred Davis, when she turns her face. I noticed Noah Young. Was Sammy Brooks the small cop?

Lahue's books couldn't have been the first movie books I read, but they're the ones I remember most. Silent comedians and cowboys quickly became my favorites. I re-read those books over and over (nobody else checked them out of the library) and bought them whenever I could find them (I found World o...

LA PAURA DEGLI AREOMOBILI NEMICI (The Fear of Zeppelins) Itala Film 1915 with Andre Deed http://europeanfilmgateway.eu/node/33/detail/La+paura+degli+areomobili+nemici/video:YjVjOTFiZDktMWNhNC00N2RlLWFiZDItOTk0NDQ4MzEyY2IyX1VtVndiM05wZEc5eWVWTmxjblpwWTJWU1pYTnZkWEpqWlhNdlVtVndiM05wZEc5eWVWTmxjblpwWTJ...

Another gem from the Huntley Archives. I believe this might be LIEUTENANT ROSE AND THE ROYAL VISIT (Clarendon 1911 directed by Percy Stow). Nice underwater diving scene.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq-B6BKdFh8