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Al Christie-produced Educational Comedy released January 15, 1933, directed by Charles Lamont, and featuring Gay Seabrook, Eleanor Hunt, John T. Murray, Georgia O'Dell, Toby Wing, Buddy Messinger and Billy Engle:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vr4KABzOt8&t=95s


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Another Mack Sennett Educational Comedy, released April 23 1932, directed by Leslie Pearce, and featuring Arthur Stone, George Byron, Dorothy Granger, Nancy Lyon, Marvin Loback, and George Gray:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrrIKYfJMR8&t=53s

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One of the few Mack Sennett talkies Billy Bevan appeared in, released by Educational October 11, 1931, directed by Babe Stafford and featuring Billy with Rosemary Theby, Spec O'Donnell, Billy Barty, and Fred "Snowflake" Toombes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPJJ1O9_7w Despite what Atla...

One of the West Brothers-Weiss Brothers comedies from 1926, directed by Arvid Gillstrom and featuring Ethelyn Gibson (Mrs. Billy West), Billy Butts, Harry Martel, Art Hammonds, and Jack Raymond:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y45VCG7z7MQ

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So, apparently nobody at Nitrateville can even be bothered to do a little Googling to answer their own question: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35380 Once again, we'll give you the actual facts: yes is the answer to the thread's question, Mutoscopes were an early invention to e...

Here's one of those Italian-dubbed reissues of Ridolini's last Vitagraph Comedy, grudgingly released by Vitagraph on March 12, 1924. Directed by Larry Semon and James Davis. Featured with Larry Semon is Oliver Hardy, Carmelita Geraughty, James Donnelly, Curtis McHenry and Bill Hauber: https://www.da...

So Ray Faiola asked Nitwitvile if anyone knew of a two-reel print of Larry Semon’s HER BOY FRIEND (1924) surviving: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35313 I gave them more than a week, but you knew he wouldn’t get a proper or correct answer there. Okay, here goes, most and possib...

John Cleese's new chat show continues to be one of the best new hours on television, here he and Rob Schneider talk about comedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Hiy0Ps-HI

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Fun Vitagraph Comedy featuring JOhn Bunny with Wallie Van, Dorothy Kelly and Charles Eldridge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ctc9VgkFk

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Don Haggerty was a solid character actor in Republic serials and westerns and had a long career, but one of his few leads was starring in this TV detective series, of which viewable episodes are rare. Here's one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XudGJ3pqbEA

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