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IMPORTANT NEWS (MGM 1936) with Chic Sale, James Stewart and everybody's favorite, Billy Dooley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLkU9CKvKY

Patsy Kelly in possibly her first film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfAqC-WXuwE&t=338s

Jay C. Flippen is mostly remembered as a stellar character actor from the late 1940's through 1970, but he was in vaudeville from the early 1920's and had a unique style. Here is THE HAM WHAT AM, a Vitaphone Variety from 1928:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I68kv3UNWuM

A product of it's time, apparently Freeman & Gosden do the voices here as well

https://archive.org/details/amosnandyrasslingmatch

An Educational Kinogram from 1925. Included here as his filmed output otherwise was during the sound era.

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

A nice Vitaphone Variety from 1930 directed by Bryan Foy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfN9mbANGw

A Vitaphone Variety from 1931

https://archive.org/details/GeorgeJesse ... anArtChoir

you can thank me later.

The first, AN OBSTINATE CORK (1902), from a flip-book, has been around for a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eOtrOXqCE The second, DESSERT AT DAN LENO'S HOUSE (also 1902) starts about 3 minutes into the mini-doc from the Dan Leno Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwX0mHfcib4 as a bonus...

Music Hall legend Robey in a chunk of this 1924 Stoll comedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVch3dcUE6g Here are a few short films Robey did for the Ministry of Information and the National War Savings Committee, 1917-1918 Simple Simon https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/1303 The Cure for Pot...

THE ECONOMISTS (1917) stars Lennox Pawle and Lauri de Frece (and I believe, Mary Forbes) in "A British comic fictional propaganda piece on how suburban dwellers should buy National War Bonds to help the war effort rather than trying to produce their own food, early 1917." Much more amusing...