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by Steve Massa
Sat Nov 29, 2014 1:50 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Know what this is? II
Replies: 4
Views: 8529

Re: Know what this is? II

Hi Gary - go ahead on your answer as I don't have anything on this one.
by Steve Massa
Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:07 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Know what this is?
Replies: 2
Views: 5669

Re: Know what this is?

Hi Dave - this comedy got identified a couple of years ago at Mostly Lost at LOC. The film is SHERMAN WAS RIGHT (12/5/1914), a Royal Comedy shot in New Jersey starring Louis Simon as the Napoleon character, with a young Russell Simpson in the supporting cast.
by Steve Massa
Sun Oct 26, 2014 2:55 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Musty's Vacation (1917)
Replies: 8
Views: 15808

Re: Musty's Vacation (1917)

Ben and I are doing our "widdle ownsome" DVD routine again - this time co-opting Marcel Perez. Ten films - five made in Italy and five from America - make up THE MARCEL PEREZ COLLECTION. The DVD and companion book by yours truly will be out soon.
by Steve Massa
Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:38 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Billy West King Bee / Billy Whiskers
Replies: 7
Views: 12714

Re: Billy West King Bee / Billy Whiskers

Thanks Dino. Sounds like they may have kept some of the original King Bee intertitles.
by Steve Massa
Fri Sep 05, 2014 10:15 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Billy West King Bee / Billy Whiskers
Replies: 7
Views: 12714

Re: Billy West King Bee / Billy Whiskers

Hi Dino - If you can the Billy West clip would be a great one to put up as well.
by Steve Massa
Thu Aug 28, 2014 4:11 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: That Early French Short with a Crowd Chasing an Ape
Replies: 4
Views: 8360

Re: That Early French Short with a Crowd Chasing an Ape

Hi Uli
Looks pretty likely. The monkey in the Petronille film I mentioned is a real monkey, so it guess it depends if Rob saw a real monk or someone in an ape suit (usually more fun that way).
by Steve Massa
Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:26 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: That Early French Short with a Crowd Chasing an Ape
Replies: 4
Views: 8360

Re: That Early French Short with a Crowd Chasing an Ape

Hi Rob There is SINGE DE PETRONILLE (1913) an Éclair comedy that stars Sarah Duhamel as a large housemaid who receives a monkey from an uncle in Africa. She tries to keep it a secret in the fancy house where she works but the monkey gets loose and wrecks the place, and the film ends with a huge chas...
by Steve Massa
Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:24 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: 1914 Sterling kid comedy
Replies: 1
Views: 4774

Re: 1914 Sterling kid comedy

Thanks David for posting this. The little man with the moustache, who does a lot of the comic business at the end looks like Bobby Dunn. Bobby was in some of the Sterling shorts with Ford Sterling.
by Steve Massa
Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:41 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: A Harry Langdon Mystery
Replies: 11
Views: 21320

Re: A Harry Langdon Mystery

Hi Richard - Great sleuthing. It definitely sounds like THE SKYSCRAPER to me too. I've seen a few photos that have Harry with the mail plane, and also with his love, who is rotund Mathilde Comont.

Now we have to be on the lookout for this home film version.
by Steve Massa
Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:23 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: De Muzikale Buren
Replies: 7
Views: 11259

Re: De Muzikale Buren

Hi David - Yeah that's Eddie Boland, and DE MUZIKALE BUREN is the Universal comedy THE HOLE IN THE WALL (3/10/1919). Here's a review from the 3/8/1919 Universal Weekly (pg. 33): "THE HOLE IN THE WALL - Nestor Comedy. Cast Prof. Feunotes..................Fred Ardath His Pupil.......................