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Dave and Paul,

I'm happy to share it with you (& everyone), glad you enjoyed it!

My thanks to you both for all the rare and terrific films you bring to light and generously share with all of us!

Ed

Here's home movie footage of Thelma Todd with Patsy Kelly, Gus Meins, Bert Wheeler and Bert's daughter Patricia, outside The Brown Derby restaurant. This might be circa Fall 1933, based on Patricia's size and the fact that she was a visitor to the set of HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY! which was in production a...

Here's my fellow Brooklynites Shemp & Moe Howard cavorting at Coney Island with the chorus girls of their Broadway revue A NIGHT IN VENICE (1929). This looks to be raw footage, possibly for Fox Movietone:

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When is a Harold Lloyd film not a film? Answer: when it's a roll of photographs made specially for the penny arcade! Here's Harold dancing on a girder in a 1921 Mutoscope filmed between takes of his Hal Roach three-reeler NEVER WEAKEN. It's only 40 seconds long, and unfortunately the image quality i...

And she just as obligingly tells him, “That’s enough”. Never realized how much Guiol looks like Ward Bond. Twenty years later, and to the right of the sign, here's Fred Guiol looking much the same, possibly amused by James Dean's antics during the making of GIANT. John McElwee shared this candid on...

Actress Dorothy Lee's 16mm home movies filmed on location in the Malibu Mountains for the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy SILLY BILLIES, December 1935. Featured along with Dorothy are Harry Woods (Dottie sits on his lap), Bert Wheeler (in Native American warpaint), and director Fred Guiol (who obliging...

The return of Shemp, and Larry gets a featured spot with Ted:

Here's several more examples. It sure seems that Harry Langdon's Roach talkies were a hit with the public:







Get this set so you can discard those assumptions you've read elsewhere -- and decide for yourself!

Time to set the record straight: There has been a long-standing assumption that Harry Langdon was fired by Hal Roach Studios after a single season of 8 comedies. In truth, Harry was initially signed by Roach to star in 12 two-reelers. After appearing in the first 8 shorts, an offer came to Langdon f...

Robert Emmett Keane returns, without Butterworth. A variation on the first joke was used a few months later by W.C. Fields in his first talkie, THE GOLF SPECIALIST (1930). In Fields' film, a 5-year-old girl substitutes for the young lady seen here, giving the gag a non-suggestive (though no less fun...