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Going through the MOSTLY LOST 3 program book today: number 67, the Billie Rhodes/Cullen Landis/Billy Bevan short is WALTZING AROUND (Mutual Strand Comedy released March 5, 1918). number 97 is THE VULGAR YACHTSMEN (Standard-Cinema-FBO released November 15, 1926) with the Three Fatties and Gale Henry....

Beaucitron a du Flair. 14 minutes. Director: Charles Parrott. Cast: Snub Pollard, Noah Young. Synopsis: After escaping from a police office, Beaucitron (French name) meets a leading actress from the theatre at the entrance lodges. He manages to sneak into the theatre but accidentally messes up the ...

Gary Johnson wrote:This played at SLAPSTICON, did it not?

Yep, in Rob Stones Rarities last year.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

With Larry Semon Directing.

Transferred too damn slow once again at 18 fps (and this is a Library of Congress preservation, you;d think they would know better), but at least you can see it:



http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserv ... ushes-1917



RICHARD M ROBERTS

If you' haven't done so already, join the Friends of Mostly Lost FB page. Lots of up to the minute reports with screen shots. In other words, if you haven't made your deal with the devil and joined Facebook, you are SOL. This comes from silent comedy mafia's so-called "up to the minute" M...

DaveGlass wrote:Yay. Thanks Richard!
How did you ID it?

Frequently one finds things one is not looking for at the time when one is researching something else.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

The title on this film is THE BATHING BEACH BOOB, it is indeed a Bray Co Comedy from 1928.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

You right. I didn't think of the timeline before but Welles was holed up in Europe til about the mid-Sixties, hiding from creditors, drinking good wine and squirreling away his treasures in various French chateau's to be discovered later.....like his print of TOO MUCH JOHNSON. And doing a bit more ...

Gary Johnson wrote:What with this and the Langdon discovery, you've been on quite a roll this past month solving your own lifetime film mysteries.

No, I 've had this print quite awhile, I just noticed yesterday that we had a thread talking about this from ages ago.



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Reviving another ancient thread, I can now state that I indeed have found a true Hal Roach print from Onyx Pictures! A print of THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY that I picked up awhile back has an Onyx Pictures THE END title on it! A nice print, with original opening and inter-titles, but the replaced Onyx en...