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This Roscoe Arbuckle-Directed Educational Cameo Comedy may have been Billy Dooley's first talkie (he had gone back to Vaudeville when Christie let him and his other silent comedians go in 1929). Released December 27, 1931 and featuring Billy with Addie McPhail (Mrs. Arbuckle): https://www.youtube.co...

Here's most of Reel Two of this Vogue Comedy released by Mutual March 24, 1917, directed by Robin Williamson and featuring Ben Turpin with Gypsy Abbott, Edward J. Laurie, and Arthur Currier and perhaps a look at the lot where the Vogue Comedies were filmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cajS65bWu_...

It has always boggled my mind just how clueless Mack Sennett was about Talkies. Here was the man who had made dizzyingly fast paced silent comedies who didn't seem to have ever figured out sound comedies needed pacing as well, and he didn't even seem to figure it out after several years! Didn't he w...

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RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's a chunk of a Stern Bros Century Comedy released by Universal August 31, 1921, directed by William Watson and featuring Charles Dorety, Bert Roach, and the Century Lions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vvWihKSZCw

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Another one of those Mack Sennett-Educational talkies that helped close the studio in 1933, we put it up for the completists. Directed by Leslie Pearce, and featuring Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary, Wade Boteler, Gertrude Astor, Lincoln Stedman, George Gray, George Byron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A Jack White Comedy Special released by Educational June 29, 1924, directed by Fred Hibbard and featuring a good cast including Louise Fazenda, Sid Smith, Lee Moran, Otto Fries, Virginia Vance, Cliff Bowes, Dick Sutherland, Sunshine Hart and Jack Lloyd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3UkKdjzFnQ&am...

Vogue Comedy released by Mutual May 5, 1917, directed by Robin Williamson and featuring Ben Turpin, Arthur Currier, Lillian Hamilton, Edward J. Laurie and Margaret Templeton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Cv5h98KZ0

RICHARD M ROBERTS

A lot of those Atlas Prints that are at LOC are cut for a fifteen-minute timeslot by some TV station. Atlas Prints can be complete, but that seems to have been the way some TV stations were running them. The later Zouary prints are the ones that are complete and have their original opening and closi...

Mack Sennett-Educational talkie released January 4, 1931, directed by Eddie CLine and featuring Andy Clyde, Dorothy Christy, Frank Eastman, Cyril Chadwick, Charles Coleman, Bud Jamison, and Billy Gilbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6OEfeygFY

RICHARD M ROBERTS