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In 1921, Charles "Heinie" Conklin was trying to make comedies for the states-rights market in which he directed and billed without his nickname. Here is one of those shorts featuring himself with Max Asher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2kwm5rCSJI&t=227s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

I watched this film yesterday at the Cinema Museum in London. Not one of the best of Buster's sound films I've seen. I found the plot convoluted and the gags unfunny. There was hardly a laugh from the 30 people in the room. It doesn't seem to go down well with a modern audience. That's too bad, bec...

Agnes McFadden wrote:I just get a message "This video is private".

It should be out of copyright ......... & I remember seeing it, I believe at Slapsticon, & it was really funny.

Why would it be on YouTube, but private?

Harpodeon videos are only available for a limited time.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

A 1917 Jaxon comedy with Bobby Burns and Walter Stull:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk05JmI7M4M

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Another Larry Darmour-FBO Barney Google comedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsyNbm8ERug

RICHARD M ROBERTS

This NNN is the one who also thought Erich Von Stroheim was in a 1912 Biograph short: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=37095 and once again, nope, too tall, ears are wrong, and too old to be the Great Profile at the time. More of the usual Nitwitvile "information". RICH...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obyP8dgSOI&t=47s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

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