Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!

[Tommie Hicks]

I found this weird silent comedy entry on youtube. Its a very strange documentary that looks like it was made with A.I. I've been researching Snub for a number of years but I have heard nothing about him being a drug addict. Snub was too damn busy to be a drug addict in my opinion. There are some great stills in this, however.

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

[Richard M Roberts]

Yeah, this is bullshit. Snub was the Secretary of the Screen Extras Guild through much of the 1950's, after being active in it for more than a decade before that, one of the reasons why he was one of the busiest bit players around. And I don't know what "wife" they are referring to, he wasn't married to any of them that long, and divorced the last one after four years in 1939. He apparently had several partners he lived with after that. He apparently wasn't the easiest fellow to get along with, but I have definitely never found any word or evidence of his being a drug addict. As you say, he was too damn busy to be a drug addict.

Andrew Sholl is the Snub Pollard expert, maybe he can add his two cents here.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[John Bengtson]

The "narrator" blathered non-stop in generic platitudes without actually saying anything. He pronounced "show biz" as "show BEES." The closing line "Snub's work lives [rhymes with hives] on" suggests they need to upgrade their AI.

[Tommie Hicks]

What I can't understand is why they went to all of this trouble for Snub Pollard. In the pantheon of once famous deceased celebrities, Snub ranks pretty low. You would think they would spend their resources on someone more prominent.

[John Bengtson]

I know nothing about AI, but the Snub video was likely created and posted with one push of a button. When the LA Times ran a story in 2021 about efforts to recognize the Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd alley, an unintentionally hilarious AI-generated video popped up, narrating the article text matched with incongruous video clips. For example, the narration “Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp” is matched with a woman jumping on a TRAMPoline. A comment that Hollywood should engage fans SHUFFLING along its sidewalk stars is matched with a casino dealer spreading a deck of cards. Buster Keaton in Cops was apparently a drug dealer, and Harold Lloyd worked in the produce section of a grocery store during Safety Last. After three years the video has 69 views, I assume mostly me and the people I shared it with back then.

https://youtu.be/BQTYmdO3W78?si=EbPGmF0-OsLoipFY