Columbia Comedy shorts question

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Columbia Comedy shorts question

Postby Louie Despres » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:24 pm

At various festivals in the past few years we have seen a few Columbia Comedy 2-reelers not included in the TV package, most notably the ones by Charley Chase. Capitolfest in Rome, NY have just announced that they will be showing the 1944 El Brendel/Harry Langdon short "Mopey Dope" in August. This leads me to ask this question, does anyone know of any Columbia Comedy short from the 30's-50's that doesn't exist? From the newly struck prints we have been seeing, Columbia has kept excellent materials on these films.
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Re: Columbia Comedy shorts question

Postby Richard M Roberts » Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:14 pm

Louie Despres wrote:At various festivals in the past few years we have seen a few Columbia Comedy 2-reelers not included in the TV package, most notably the ones by Charley Chase. Capitolfest in Rome, NY have just announced that they will be showing the 1944 El Brendel/Harry Langdon short "Mopey Dope" in August. This leads me to ask this question, does anyone know of any Columbia Comedy short from the 30's-50's that doesn't exist? From the newly struck prints we have been seeing, Columbia has kept excellent materials on these films.



There may be a few Columbia shorts from the pre-Jule White era not extant (though Sony seems to have a lot of those as well), but I believe all of the post-1934 shorts do indeed survive.

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