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Oh, here's another of those darn Lyons and Moran comedies, common as dirt these days. This one we ran at slapsticon at some point or another, directed by Harry Edwards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNh1P4gHMXk

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's reel two only of a pretty clever Al St. John Educational Mermaid directed by Stephen Roberts and featuring Al with Glen Cavender, Clem Beauchamp, Estelle Bradley, jack Lloyd and Elfie Fay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRe_31JICRs&t=5s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's one of Marie Dressler's self-produced two-reelers for Goldwyn in 1917, when she was still playing various incarnations of Tillie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E9pdoDBNOk

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Hmm, in his review of THE WALKING DEAD, the old Gabbit refers to Director Michael Curtiz having started much of his reputation as Warner's resident horror stylist in the 30's with SVENGALI (1931) with John Barrymore: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3022&p=299984#p299984 Real...

It does seem an odd thing for an old film historian to say "Here's another Lyons and Moran comedy on Youtube", considering how hard and few there were to see for so many, many years. But here's another Lyons and Moran comedy on Youtube, an early Nestor-Universal when they were working with...

Well, we go from a nice late Sennett silent with Bathing Beauties to perhaps not the worse Mack Sennett talkie ever made, but such a drop in quality. Released by Educational Pictures February 28, 1932, directed by Babe Stafford, it has a nice cast: Arthur Stone, Dorothy Granger, Helen Mann, Walter L...

Fun late Sennett Bathing Beauty comedy with Sennettcolor sequence, directed by Harry Edwards and featuring Daphne Pollard, Johnny Burke, Sally Eilers, Carole Lombard, Matty Kemp, and the "Sennett Girls" (who look much nicer than the ones in WHY GIRLS WALK HOME): https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Another of those Devry Cinetone films for a home sound-on-disc system that used commercial record as the soundtrack and had actors mime them. Some unknowns do Frank Crumit's recording of the title tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjkdXcBXI6E

RICHARD M ROBERTS

A silly Universal short from 1917 with Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran:

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

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Mack Sennett-Paramount released November 18, 1917, directed by Hampton Del Ruth and Victor heeman featuring Louise Fazenda, ben Turpin, Slim Summerville, Glen Cavender, Wayland Trask Erle C. Kenton, Gene Rogers, and Teddy and Pepper the Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYD6hxcARDs RICHARD M ROBE...