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Gad, you give them a whole day and the NNN's can't come up with damn much of anything these days. The still with James Dunn playing ping-pong, that's Lona Andre on the left and I think that's June Knight on the right, which would make this still from TAKE A CHANCE (1933), but most likely a publicity...

https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=37977

On the left in the first still is Bud Duncan.

The last still is Gale Henry and Richard Dix in THE LOVE DOCTOR (1929)

RICHARD M ROBERTS

You know it is kinda a laugh that the nits over at Nitwitvile didn't get the news on this until just today: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37956 And of course it is a big mystery as to whose Youtube channel posted these films, which we of course already know is formerly of the ...

Hey Gang, More wonderful news as CLASSIC IMAGES magazine has sent out a letter saying that its October 2025 issue will be it's last and they are closing up shop effective immediately. This is, of course, an end of an era for a magazine that loomed large in many film collectors lives. Started in 1962...

Billie Ritchie runs around the Pan-Pacific Exposition (later Balboa Park) in San Diego, oddly enough staying away from the Keystone exhibit on how movies are made, in this rather off-the-cuff L-KO comedy from 1916:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ejgp1NDLc8

RICHARD M ROBERTS

A late Henry Lehrman-directed Fox comedy feature featuring the short-lived comedy team of Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara (who died soon after making this film) as well as Nick Stuart and Sally Phipps. Lehrman gets a couple of lovely tasteless gags by the censors and this is more fun than it outta be. ...

Here's that rarity, a funny Mack Sennett talkie. Basically a sequel to A HOLLYWOOD STAR, we have more adventures with Harry Gribbon as a problematic movie actor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK3c-cM5Q9g&t=190s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

No Ed, it was Charlie Tarbox's Film Classics Exchange that had the second reel only (all that is known to exist) available in a beautiful print reduced from 35mm (I've got one). It does have a pretty wild storm sequence for it's finale.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

What survives on a late Gloria Swanson-Bobby Vernon comedy released by Triangle-Keystone July 8, 1917, directed by Clarence Badger and featuring William Irving, Ethel Teare, Tom Kennedy and Edgar Kennedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8esCgD1E3g8

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Early Al Christie-directed Nestor comedy with future vamp Louise Glaum, Eddie Lyons (and lee Moran in a bit part)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84_wRuVCFic

RICHARD M ROBERTS