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AIRPLANE COMEDIES
Along with other modes of transportation, the airplane has always been a source of thrills and adventure in films, especially comedies. Lige Connelly stars in "AIR POCKETS" to start off this festival. As a wacky inventor, he displays an auto that folds up thus avoiding the need for a garage or parking spaces! When the mafia gets involved a wild chase through the air ensues! Other comedians who made use of airplanes are featured in clips from their movies. Among them, Larry Semon, Laurel & Hardy, Mack Sennett, Billy Bevan, Ben Turpin, and more.
(A-49) B & W silent with music score added...approx 60 minutes...$9.98 plus shipping and handling

JIMMIE ADAMS
Al Christie comedy studios presents Jimmie Adams in three comedies; "MEET THE FOLKS" (1927) and "BEAUTY ALA MUD" (1926) are rare 2-reel complete versions. Also featured are "LOVE SHY" (1928) and "CHASE YOURSELF" (1926).
(A-600-V) B & W ....silent with music added......................................$9.98 plus shipping and handling



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The Better 'ole  starring  Syd Chaplin as "Old Bill"
Sidney Chaplin stars in this W.W. 1 comedy from 1923.
(A-887) B & W ......silent with music added.....................................$12.98 plus shipping and handling
 

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CHAPLIN AT MUTUAL vol. 1
Considered the best and most creative period of his career, the short comedies produced by Mutual have been the ones Chaplin is best remembered for. This first volume features "THE IMMIGRANT", "THE ADVENTURER", "THE CURE", and "EASY STREET".
(A-491) B & W silent with music score added ..approx 85 minutes .......$9.98 plus shipping and handling

CHAPLIN AT MUTUAL vol. 2
This second volume consists of "THE COUNT", "THE VAGABOND", "THE FIREMAN", and "BEHIND THE SCREEN" which holds some extra interest in that it is a parody of the old slapstick comedies and film-making of the time.
(A-492) B & W silent with music score added ...approx 85 minutes .......$9.98 plus shipping and handling

CHAPLIN AT MUTUAL vol. 3
Chaplin attempts, some say with mixed results, to make a solo comedy with props as his other "players" in "ONE A.M." where he portrays a drunk returning home and having complications with such things as coat racks and murphy beds. "THE PAWN SHOP" casts Charlie as the assistant to a Jewish pawn broker. Charlie has the usual run-ins with customers and rivals. "THE FLOORWALKER" has hi-jinxs at a department store. "THE RINK" provides roller-skating antics and shows Chaplin's athletic abilities at taking falls.
(A-493) B & W silent with music score added........approx 85 minutes...$9.98 plus shipping and handling

LIGE CONLEY
From the roaring 20's era comes a collection of comedies starring Lige Conley in a series of fast-paced slapstick chase comedies. This offering here includes "FAST AND FURIOUS" (1924), "AIR POCKETS" (1926) and "BATTLING KANGAROOS" (1926) with a young Sterling Holloway also in the cast.
(A-602-V) B & W ........silent with music added ...................................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

CLYDE COOK
From the Hal Roach Studios comes a collection of comedies starring Australian comic Clyde Cook. Stan Laurel either wrote or directed these snappy comedies. Included here in this compilation are "STARVATION BLUES" (1926) with Clyde and Syd Crossley as two street musicians on the run from the pesky cop on the beat. "WIFE TAMERS" (1926) is a domestic comedy with Lionel Barrymore co-starring with Clyde. "WANDERING PAPAS" (1926)   Clyde works as the camp cook in a logging operation with Oliver Hardy as his hungry foreman. This comedy was written and directed by Stan Laurel.  "WHAT'S THIS WORLD COMING TO?" (1926) with Stan Laurel in a cameo appearance. Oliver Hardy is an insurance company doctor who must examine Clyde Cook who is to be bumped-off for the money by a scheming couple in the 1925 comedy "SHOULD SAILORS MARRY?".
(A-603) B & W ........silent with music added ...................................$12.98 plus shipping and handling

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THE EXTRA GIRL (1923)
Mack Sennett produced this feature as a starring vehicle for his long-time star Mabel Normand. This is a Cinderella-type story of a small town girl who comes to Hollywood and gets into pictures. Of course there are comic twists and complications that make this basic storyline fun to watch. The most memorable scene in this film is where Mabel leads a lion around by a rope through the studio much to the fear of everyone else! A fine behind the scenes look at the Sennett Studios is an added bonus!
(A-225) Color tinted silent w/ music score added....approx 70 minutes..$9.98 plus shipping and handling





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FATTY ARBUCKLE at KEYSTONE Vol. 2
Fatty has mother-in-law problems, then wife problems with a flirt. The flirt's husband returns and the chase is on! "FATTY'S TIN-TYPE TANGLE" provides us with the typical domestic farce style of comedy so precedent during this era. Edgar Kennedy who would go on to fame in his own series of domestic comedies co-stars along with Louise Fazenda. In "FATTY'S FAITHFUL FIDO", Roscoe and Al. St.John try to eliminate each other as rivals for Minta Durfee in a Chinese laundry. Roscoe siks his dog, Fido, on Al to gain the edge! In "FATTY'S NEW ROLE", he plays a tramp who masquerades as a saloon owner but is mistaken for a mad bomber.
(A-41) B & W ...........silent with music score added...approx. 1 hr........$12.98 plus shipping and handling
 

FATTY ARBUCKLE at KEYSTONE Vol. 4
"MABEL, FATTY & THE LAW" (1915) is another domestic farce which made Keystones so popular. Two errant husbands flirt with their maids only to get caught. They go to the park where they encounter each others spouse. The cops enter the scene to enforce the "no spooning allowed" rule and the fun begins. Mabel Normand co-stars. "FATTY'S PLUCKY PUP" (1915) is not to be confused with "Fatty's Faithful Fido" (from Vol. 2) though both were made the same year. Arbuckle plays an incompetent son living with his mother. He sets fire to his bed, drops mother's laundry in the mud, and makes more trouble than help for her. Later he takes his girl to the amusement park where she's kid-napped by crooks. But Fatty, his plucky pup, and the Keystone Cops come to the rescue. In "WISHED ON MABEL"(1915), she and her mother are at the park when Fatty comes along and off he and Mabel go together. A park bandit steals mother's watch but loses it. Fatty finds it and gives it to Mabel. The crook comes back and demands "his" watch! Mabel's mother comes along and identifies it as her watch. Well, you can imagine the ensuing scuffle! In "FATTY AND THE BATHING BEAUTIES"(1915), Mabel and Fatty are trying to have a nice day at the beach only to have a pesky masher bothering all the girls including Mabel. In a jealous fit, the masher releases a rope holding an air balloon that Mabel is about to ride in but Roscoe can't hold on and Mabel is up and away in a runaway air balloon. He and the Keystone Cops are off to the rescue! On her own without Roscoe ,Mabel gets engaged to one fellow with mama's approval in "MABEL LOST AND WON" but a female siren attempts to lure him away by feigning an illess at the engagement party while her cohort keeps Mabel occupied as well. The siren is exposed when her husband and kids turn up and Mabel realizes that her fiance' was set up and all is forgiven.
(A-217) B & W  silent with music score added........approx. 1 hr. ......... $12.98 plus shipping and handling
 

Fatty Arbuckle in LEAP YEAR - Full length feature
This rarity shows us how well Arbuckle was able to handle a feature length comedy format. Roscoe give a lively performance as an energetic, stuttering millionaire involved in a marriage plot.
(A-881) B & W.......sound..............approximately 65 minutes........ $12.98 plus shipping and handling
 

Sidney Drew (uncle to the Barrymores) directed and starred in this fantasy-comedy from 1914. Drew plays Dr. Cassadene who can’t stop flirting with his beautiful patients. His fiancee (played by Edith Story) resorts to some fictitious magic seeds that transforms men into women and women into men without altering their outward appearances. "A Florida Enchantment" was filmed on locations around Fort Lauderdale. Also in the cast is Lucille McVey (Drew’s wife) using her stage name Jane Morrow.
(A-699) B & W silent with music score added.....approximately 63 minutes..................$9.98


Fox Comedy Rarities
Here are some extremely rare silent comedies boasting great production values and wacky, overblown storylines. Included are "WINE, WOMEN and SAUERKRAUT" (1925) directed by George Marshall. "TWENTY LEGS UNDER THE SEA" (1926), and "THE LADY LION" (1925). Also include are "A BANKRUPT HONEYMOON" with Harold Goodwin and Oliver Hardy as a pair who run an "Eat while you ride" bus with some wild results when bus driver Ollie get knock out and the bus goes wild!". Earl Foxe and Anita Garvin are featured in "THE MOTOR BOAT DEMON" with some spectacular water chases and explosions in a race.
(A-612-V) Color tinted and B & W silent with music added .........approx 95 minutes.......$12.98 plus shipping and handling
 

FUNNY MANN starring Cliff Norton - more Hilarity
Episodes included are "SHOW MANN"  "MOUNTED MANN" , "MYSTERY MANN", "GOLF MANN", "FAT MANN"
and "MOVIE MANN"
(A-815-E) B & W music and narration ....................$19.98 plus shipping and handling



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The Great Vita-phone Silent Slapstick Festival
Here are six great compilations from the late 1930's from Vita-phone shorts featuring some of the best comedy clips, gags, chases and personalities of the roaring 20's! Such stalwarts as Billy Bevan, Ben Turpin, Louise Fazenda, Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, Harry Gribbon, Marie Prevost, Ford Sterling and the great Keystone Cops. Titles include "HAPPY TIMES AND JOLLY MOMENTS", "HAPPY FACES", "A SMALL TOWN IDOL", "LOVE'S INTRIGUE", "ONCE OVER LIGHTLY" and "GOOD OLD CORN" each of these is humorously narrated with full orchestral score and great sound effects! This is a great entry level introduction to the world of silent era slapstick comedy from the best practitioners in the business!
(A-717) B & W .....music, narration and effects..........approximately 120minutes total........$12.98 plus shipping and handling



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EDWARD EVERETT HORTON
The famous character actor best remembered from the 1930's and 40's made some silent comedies and early talkie shorts. Three silents and a talkie comprise this volume. "DAD'S CHOICE" (1928)features Eddie courting his girl against her fathers wishes. With the help of the gardener, plans an elopement. Only the gardener is her father who actually gets to like Eddie, so he plays along! In "VACATION WIVES" (1929) poor Eddie plans a fishing trip but the wife and in-laws barge in on his vacation. Their ride on the double-decker bus with a fishing pole and loose line cause quite a bit of havoc! Getting to their boat and fishing proves to be a wet experience also! "HORSE SHY" (1928) features the problems Eddie encounters in a high society fox hunt. He has to tame a wild horse and his ride through the countryside is memorable to say the least! An early talkie, "THE RIGHT BED" (1929) rounds out this collection. Edward Everett Horton would go on to become one of the most familiar character actors of the 30's and 40's and a familiar voice in the Jay Ward animated cartoons of the 50's and 60's on television.
(A-606-V) B & W ....silent (and sound)..approximately 80 minutes...$12.98 plus shipping and handling




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KIDS AND CRITTERS
Here’s a collection of silent era comedies featuring the antics of children and animals. "SPARKY THE MOVIE STAR" and "SPARKY GOES TO SCHOOL" features Rascals dog Pete the Pup with Big Boy in some funny situations. Mickey McGuire wins a sandlot baseball game in "MICKEY’S BASEBALL GAME". In "BLACK SAMBO’S ESCAPE", a small boy steals a water melon but the cop on the beat lets him go. The McDougal Alley Gang are engaged in "THE BIG MUD-PIE RAID" and "YANKEE DOODLE". The comedy gang star in "THE WRECKING CREW" (no, not the Dean Martin version!) And "FUN AT THE PARTY". More animal antics with Jocko the Monk in "JOCKO’S REVENGE". Another animal comedy is "BARNYARD WEDDING". Wolfheart and Rin Tin Tin are featured in "TRUCK RESCUE" and "DOG WONDER".
(A-526 ) B & W silent with music score added..........approximately 1 hour................................$9.98

KID COMEDY RARITIES
There were many rival studios who attempted to duplicate the success of the Hal Roach "Our Gang" comedies of the 1920's. The most well known were the Mickey McGuire series with Mickey Rooney and the Shirley Temple Baby Burlesques. Featured here are six shorts from other studios. "THE SEA SCAMPS" features Malcom Sabiston as "Big Boy" . The kids go on a cruise ship and cause much distraction and havoc! Mastered from a gorgeous Kodascope print. Malcom returns in another "big Boy Comedy", "ON THE TRAIN".  "WHAT PRICE OPRHANS?" is a Barr Comedy saved from 35mm nitrate print. "KIDS, CATS AND COPS" is a MacDougal Alley Kids comedy where they deal with kidnappers, cops and parents. Mickey Rooney is featured in two of his "Mickey McGuiire" comedies from the early talking era. "MICKEY'S CLEAN-UP" and "MICKEY THE DETECTIVE" round out this collection.
(A-613-V) B & W silent with music added ..............................................$9.98 plus shipping and handling





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LUPINO LANE Vol. 2
This second volume includes "THE FIGHTING DUDE" (1925), "HOWDY DUKE" (1926), "NAUGHTY BOY" (1926), and "TIME FLIES" (1925).
(A-608-V) B & W ........silent wit music added ........................................$16.98 plus shipping and handling

LUPINO LANE Vol. 3
In  "BE MY KING" (1929), Lupino and his brother Wallace are shipwrecked on an island that is inhabited by cannibals. An Amazonian female cannibal takes a liking to Lupino and might be spared the stewing pot if he marries her! Also on this volume are "HELLO SAILOR" and "MOVIELAND"
(A-609-V) B& W ...........silent with music added ....................................$16.98 plus shipping and handling

LUPINO LANE Vol. 4
The vaudeville theater was always a good setting for comedians to create a  comedy with lively happenings, eccentric characters and novelty bits that might not fit into a conventional comic plot. Such is the case with "DRAMA DELUXE". Next, Lupino stars in a swashbuckling send-up of the Fairbanks, Barrymore gendre of action films in "SWORD POINTS". Dudley DoRight has nothing on Lupino Lane in a parody of the mounted police films in "MONTY OF THE MOUNTED".It seems the bad guy and Lupino's superior officer are twins so we have Lupino constantly assaulting the wrong man and saluting his nemesis!
(A-610-V) B & W silent with music added ..............................................$16.98 plus shipping and handling

LUPINO LANE Vol. 5
This newest addition features "FANDANGO" and has some marvelously funny gags and dances. Appearing with Lane are Marjorie Moore and Anita Garvin. "ROAMING ROMEO" is set in the old Roman days and has some lively slapstick. In the third entry to this volume, "SUMMER SAP", Lupino plays a frustrated husband who takes his kids to a summer resort town where it rains endlessly for weeks. "Cucked" up in a tiny hotel room for weeks with a flannel-mouthed nagging wife with a gift for the bleeding obvious and two whining bratty kids, Lupino looses his cool and starts a war with every resident in the hotel including massive Blanche Payson!
(A-638-V) B&W silent with music added...............................................$16.98 plus shipping & handling

LONG PANTS
Harry Langdon stars in this full-length feature comedy.
(A-530) B & W silent with music score added.......approx 75 minutes......$19.98 plus shipping and handling


THE LOOK-A-LIKES
In the early days of film comedy it was not uncommon for comedians to adopt the make-up, costumes and styles of successful stars. Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin were among those who were imitated by rival studios in the hopes of cashing in on the popularity of these exclusive contract players. Former Fred Karno player Billie Ritchie, who played in tramp guises prior to Chaplin, dons Charlie's Keystone costume and stars in a Sennett-imitation comedy "PARTNERS IN CRIME" (1914). The best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West, stars in two comedies; "SHIP AHOY" and "THE HOBO".
(A-495) B & W silent with music score added........approx 1 hour........$14.98 plus shipping and handling


THE LOTTERY MAN (I9I5)
Oliver Hardy's first feature film, previously unknown! Ollie plays a pivotal role in drag as a maid in a story about a man who auctions himself off as a groom to the highest bidder!
(A-599-V) B & W silent with music added ............................$16.98 plus shipping & handling







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THE SMITH FAMILY Vol. 1
Mack Sennett introduced a series of domestic comedies called The Smith Family starring Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt and future "Our Gang" star Mary Ann Jackson. This volume includes "THE SMITH'S CANDY STORE", "THE SMITH PICNIC", and "THE BURGLER".
(A-616-V) B & W silent with music added ..............................................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

THE SMITH FAMILY Vol. 2
This second volume features "THE SMITH'S BABY" (1926), "THE SMITH'S FISHING TRIP" (1927) and "THE RODEO" (1928) and the Smith's engage in some rural slapstick on "THE SMITH FAMILY FARM".
(A-617-V) B & W silent with music added .............................................$9.98 plus shipping and handling
 

THE STRONG MAN
Frank Capra directed this Harry Langdon silent era full-length comedy feature and it is generally considered as one of the best.
(A-494) B & W silent with music score added...approx 80 minutes...$19.98 plus shipping and handling





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THE THREE FATTIES   Vol. 1
From the Joe Rock Studios came a series of chubby comedians known as "The Three Fatties". This first volume features "ALL TIED UP" (1925), "TAILORING" (1925), "THE HEAVY PARADE" (1926), "OLD TIN SIDES" (1927) and "THREE MISSING LINKS" (1927).
(A-620-V) B & W silent with music added .................................................$16.98 plus shipping and handling

THE THREE FATTIES   Vol. 2
The three chubby comics return again. Frank Alexander, Kewpie Ross and Fat Kerr star in "A HEAVY LOAD", "THREE OF A KIND" and "THREE WISE GOOFS".
(A-621-V) B & W silent with music added .................................................$16.98 plus shipping and handling

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HAROLD LLOYD'S World of Comedy
Here is a great introductory film to fans of the art of sight-gag comedy and to the career of Harold Lloyd. Personally supervised by Mr. Lloyd himself, this compilation consists of highlights from many of his most memorable films including such favorites as "THE FRESHMAN", "MOVIE STRUCK" , "FEET FIRST", "THE KID BROTHER", "GIRL SHY" and many more.
(A-125-V) B & W .....................approximately 100 minutes.................$9.98 + shipping & handling

HAROLD LLOYD Vol. 1
Harold Lloyd, in these early comedies, is a vital, hyper-active, ambitious and aggressive young man who gets by on his cleverness and dexterity rather than his brawn which his antagonists invariably have. "NUMBER PLEASE" deals with mishaps at an amusement park of the 1920's as well as his problems with the telephone operators. "THE CITY SLICKER" features Harold as an efficiency expert who comes to a small rural town in need of modernizing. He installs all sorts of gadgets such as moving bathtubs and beds. A society "deb" arrives with a trail of suitors and a frumpy mother to upset the workings of the hotel. "HIGH AND DIZZY" has Harold pursuing his fiancée. Only problem is she's sleepwalking, on the outside ledge of a tall hotel! Harold is trying to rescue her on the ledge but he's drunk and having trouble keeping his own balance! This was one of Lloyd's earliest "thrill comedies" he became famous for.
(A-481) B & W silent with music score added.....approximately 61 minutes..... $9.98 + shipping & handling

HAROLD LLOYD Vol. 3
Leading off this third volume is a three-reeler starring Harold called  "AMONG THOSE PRESENT". An earlier Lloyd comedy is next  called "THE NON-STOP KID" . This 30 year retrospective on Lloyd would not be complete without an example of his earliest work. On this volume one of the only known Lonesome Luke comedies known to survive is featured. Lloyd played this grotesque character (of sorts) to satisfy the public demand for Chaplin-type humor. Lloyd would soon elevate his style to the more middle-class everyman character we all came to know so well. "LUKE'S MOVIE MUDDLE" has him working at a local nickelodeon  at a frenzied pace where the usual slapstick results.
(A-483) B & W silent w/music score added...approx 65  minutes total.. $9.98 + Shipping & handling

 

Harold must "STEP LIVELY"(1919) as he is evicted from his boarding house. Homeless, he is also hungry so he contrives to find a way to steal
a hot sausage from a local street vendor. While hiding the sausage behind his back, a tough, aggressive street dog steals it! Harold gives chase to the
dog but the tough canine turns the tables and chases Harold throughout the neighborhood. Over the fences and into a boarding house, Harold then
foils a robbery before making friends with Bebe and the pooch! Joining Harold in this comedy is Bebe Daniels, Bud Jamison, Snub Pollard and Billy Engle. Then two of his finest and most memorable comedies are featured. "HAUNTED SPOOKS" (1920) has Harold and his new bride inheriting
an old mansion that seems to have ghosts haunting it. It is actually some scheming lawyers (pardon the redundancy) who are attempting to scare
Harold and Mildred from their inheritance. The usual fun sight-gags occur throughout. Along for the fun is Sunshine "Sammy" Morrison who would go
on to become the first member of the classic "Our Gang" comedy series which would last for more than two decades. "NEVER WEAKEN" (1921)
is one of Harold Lloyd's best "thrill comedies". Harold mistakenly thinks his girl is jilting him for someone else so he decides to do himself in. After a variety of inept attempts, a series of coincidences takes him out on a sky-scraper under construction and danger at every step! Now self-preservation takes a hold and Harold must find a safe way back!
(A-484) B & W silent w/ music score added...approx  57  minutes total..$9.98 + shipping & handling

 

HAROLD LLOYD Vol. 6
Thrown out of his boarding house for non-payment of 5 weeks back rent (a whole dollar and a half!), Harold must try and out-wit his debt collectors only to be out-witted by a pesky dog in "STEP LIVELY". Next, Harold tries to impress his girl at a local skating rink in "DON'T SHOVE". A race on skates climaxes this early version of roller-derby! Next we see Harold as a novice writer attempting to break into the world of the Broadway musical in "BUMPING INTO BROADWAY" with Bebe Daniels as his girl friend. Finally, a look at Lloyd in one of his earliest juvenile roles in the Mack Sennett comedy "COURTHOUSE CROOKS" with Ford Sterling.
(A-486) B & W silent w/music score added...approx 55 minutes total...$9.98 + shipping & handling

HAROLD LLOYD Vol. 7
In "GOING, GOING, GONE" Harold and Snub are a couple of con men running a scam on a fake ring. They encounter Bebe Daniels who works as a fake "medium" for Professor Goulash and his mystic Temple. It becomes a contest of who can out-con who. "NEVER TOUCHED ME" involves four suitors of Bebe Daniels. One of them is Harold. This comedy features a rare appearence in "drag" by Harold when he masquerades as a cabaret dancer in order to avoid being shot by a jealous rival. Lloyd seldom did female guise in the Arbuckle-Laurel-Chaplin tradition. "CHOP SUEY & COMPANY" casts Harold as a cop who, after causing a commotion in the park with a stage actress, is transferred to Chinatown with complications ensuing. Lloyd is shanghaied by a ship loaded with females pirates in "CAPTAIN KIDD'S KIDS". In the domestic comedy "I DO" Harold and his wife are baby-sitting the brother-in-law's two mischievous children and the young couple can't keep up with the problems!
(A-487) B & W silent w/ music score added...approx 73 minutes total...$9.98 + shipping & handling


LLOYD & CHASE at Keystone
Both Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chase learned their craft partly at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios around 1915. This collection shows them at the start of their great careers. Harold plays one of the suitors in "MISS FATTY'S SEASIDE LOVERS". He has a featured role in "COURTHOUSE CROOKS" starring Ford Sterling. Charley Chase with the Keystone Cops in "LOVE, LOOT AND CRASH" with Harold Lloyd in a cameo as a vegetable cart vendor. Charley also stars with Mae Busch in "SETTLED AT THE SEASIDE".
(A-519) B & W silent w/ music added......approximately 1 hour total.....$9.98 + shipping & handling

DR. JACK
As a young country Doctor, Harold plays Dr. "Jack" Jackson who's method of medicine is more on the humanistic side versus his contemporaries who overload patients with pills and blankets (not to mention exorbitant fees!). When a "poor little rich girl", whose only real ailment is seclusion and darkness fostered by an officious foreign doctor, is treated by Dr. Jack, amazing things happen. Filled with warmth and humor, this film also has some great sight gags in it as well! Harold decides that the girl needs some excitement rather than quiet. He disguises himself as a fiend in a cape with fake teeth and a hat and chases everybody through the house. Much to her surprise, the girl never felt better after all the exercise and excitement!
(A-514) B & W silent w/ music added...approx 60 minutes ...$9.98 + shipping & handling
 

THE MILKY WAY
The era of the screw-ball comedy began in the mid-thirties and by this time, Lloyd was only making about one film every two years. This talking era comedy from 1936 casts Harold Lloyd as a milk man who is turned into a prize-fighters by some promoters when he accidentally knocks out the champ and a grudge match is demanded. Loaded with Damon Runyon-type characters and helped by a superior cast of great character actors this comedy fits well into the gendre of screwball comedies of the era. Directed by Leo McCarey who got his start working with Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, this comedy shows how Lloyd adapted his character to the changing times.
(A-435) B & W sound..........approximately 89 minutes.....................$9.98 + shipping & handling

SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK
The thirty-year reign of Harold Lloyd as King of the daredevil comedians and master of the sight-gag came to a conclusion with this, his final film. It was a collaboration with Preston Sturgiss who took Lloyd's "Freshman" character from 1923 and up-dated it to what could have happened to him 23 years later in post-WW2 America. Taking his go-getter character of the roaring 20's and exploring him as a middle-aged, disillusioned burned out character who bounces back one more time after losing his job and his girl. An excellent supporting cast includes such veterans as Edgar Kennedy, Margaret Hamilton and Jimmy Conlin.
(A-436) B & W sound..........approximately 90 minutes...........................$9.98 + shipping & handling
 

MACK SENNETT: THE BIOGRAPH YEARS
Film comedy took a major step forwards when Mack Sennett starred and directed Biograph comedies. Under D.W. Griffith, Sennett learned his techniques of story and editing. When he graduated from actor to director, Sennett accelerated the pace of the editing and emphasized farce elements of the story. Six short comedies that Sennett either acted in or directed are presented here. They include "HAPPY JACK: A HERO", a short farce comedy. "TURNING THE TABLES", a domestic war of the sexes comedy, "A VILLAIN FOILED" with Joseph Greybill, and "THE BARON" with Mabel Normand and Dell Henderson in a comedy Sennett would later expand into a vehicle for Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin when he formed Keystone a few years later. Also on this compilation is "THE MANICURE LADY" which Sennett directed and starred in as well as "A DASH THROUGH THE CLOUDS" with Mabel Normand and Fred Mace in an airplane comedy.
(A-320) B & W .........silent w/music added..approximately 1 hour..$9.98 plus shipping and handling

MACK SENNETT KEYSTONES VOL. 1
Vintage Keystones that started the legend! The Keystone Cops figure in the fun in "A MUDDY ROMANCE" with Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, and even Sennett himself in a cameo as Echo Lake is drained as the villains attempt to escape leaving them in a huge mudhole! A Nickelodeon Theater is the setting for "A MOVIE STAR" as Mack Swain shows up at a crowded theater to admire himself on the screen and take hammy bows to the star-struck audience. Mable Normand is tied to the rail road tracks and must be rescued by Mack Sennett himself in "BARNEY OLDFIELD'S RACE FOR A LIFE". Louise Fazenda and Fritz Schade star in "A HASH HOUSE FRAUD" from 1915. This is a restaurant comedy with slapstick overtones! Chester "Walrus" Conklin and Mack "Ambrose" Swain star in "LOVE, SPEED AND THRILLS". Mack Swain is back again caught in his own web of lies in "AMBROSE'S FIRST FALSEHOOD". Charley Chase and the Keystone Cops fill out this compilation with a wild chase in "LOVE , LOOT AND CRASH".
(A-321) B & W .....with music added........approximately 100 minutes...$12.98 plus shipping and handling

MACK SENNETT KEYSTONES VOL. 2
The versatile Charlie Murray is featured in "THE PLUMBER" in which Charlie is among the most inept leak-stoppers you'll ever see! "HOGAN OUT WEST" features Charlie as a city slicker in the midst of some sharp-shooters out west.  and "HIS SECOND CHILDHOOD" is a a thinly disguised version of Charlie's Aunt with Charlie doing a fine female impersonation. Also Charlie Chaplin appears in "HIS MUSICAL CAREER" with Mack Swain as deliverymen.  William Collier, Sr. and Mae Busch star in "WIFE AND AUTO TROUBLE". The Keystone Cops provide a wild chase finale!  In "THIRST" Ambrose, the ever-resourceful con man, swings into action early in the morning. He finds a new tenant for the landlady and saves his room, drops by the express office to pick up Ethel Teare and a bit of money for an elopement. He then ditches her in heavy traffic and winds up courting a wealthy lady.  But the best is yet to come! A sadder, but wiser Ethel is hired over the phone as a maid. Her employer? Ambrose's new lady friend! This sets the stage for a wild melee with some of the best chase scenes Keystone put on the screen in 1917 and ends  with a typical Keystone choice; marriage or jail! Most men would have taken Ethel for better or worse; Ambrose took the jug. He may have been wiser at that! As a finale, Mack Swain returns in "MADCAP AMBROSE".
(A-322) B & W .............with music added...approx 2 hrs...............$12.98 plus shipping and handling

MACK SENNETT KEYSTONES VOL. 3
Fred Mace, Dale Fuller and Hugh Fay star in "BATH TUB PERILS", a hotel comedy with a wild finish featuring the Keystone Fire Brigade as well as those Cops! Next, Mae Busch, Harry McCoy and Dell Henderson star in "THOSE BITTER SWEETS". When Mae and Harry are out for a ride in Harry's Chevy "sportster" (1915 vintage) they encounter a rival for Mae. Charlie Chaplin stars next with his discoverer, Mack Sennett himself in "THE PROPERTY MAN" from 1914. The scene is a vaudeville  theater and much confusion takes place both on stage in front of a rowdy audience as well as back stage where Charlie disrupts the proceedings. "VILLA OF THE MOVIES" from 1917 was supervised by Mack Sennett and directed by Eddie Cline stars Bobby Dunn, Peggy Pearce, Slim Summerville and Glen Cavender in a spoof of the Mexican revolutions that happened regularly.   Charlie Chaplin  co-stars with Mack Swain in "HIS MUSICAL CAREER". Charley Chase and Mae Busch are "SETTLED AT THE SEASIDE" in a Sennett bathing beauty comedy by the beach. Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling star in "MABEL'S DRAMATIC CAREER". One of the earliest Keystones surviving is the ethnic comedy "COHEN SAVES THE FLAG" with Sennett, Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling in a civil War farce using scenes and extras from a con-current Thomas Ince feature which gives this little one-reel comedy some big production values.
(A-323) B & W ........with music added........approx 1 hr 50 minutes..........$12.98 + s & h

MACK SENNETT KEYSTONES VOL. 4
Starring in this compilation are Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Louise Fazenda, Mae Busch and Dell Henderson. "AMBROSE'S LOFTY PERCH" (1915) stars Mack Swain as a King who seeks a Queen to help him rule his kingdom. He selects a beautiful but fickle maiden, played by Louise Fazenda. Robin attempts to separate her from the King and the problems escalate! "MABEL'S MARRIED LIFE' (1914) is one of the many domestic comedies which paired Mabel Normand with Charles Chaplin. In this comedy, a local bully flirts with Charlie's wife. Charlie gets drunk while his wife gets him a boxing dummy to practice with. The drunken Charlie comes home thinking it is the bully and spars with the dummy! "WILFUL AMBROSE"(1915) has him demonstrating his marksmanship to his daughter. He accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife purchased and he must scramble to replace it. In "MABEL LOST AND WON" (1915), Mabel and her boyfriend played by Owen Moore become engaged much to the delight of Mabel's mother.  The flirtatious Dora Rogers manages to get Mabel's fiance alone. Mabel's mother catches them and demands the engagement be broken! But Dora has an unexpected set of visitors to break up this flirtation! "THE BANGVILLE POLICE (1913) features Mabel Normand as a farm girl who overhears  what she thinks is a plot to steal the farm cow. A rustic version of the Keystone Cops is called in to "help" out! "AMBROSE'S FURY" takes place at Venice Beach, Santa Monica where the roller coasters made for lots of thrills and fun. 
(A-324) B & W silent with music added.......approx 70 minutes..............$12.98 plus shipping and handling

MACK SENNETT KEYSTONES VOL. 5
Starring in this 2-HOUR compilation are Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Louise Fazenda, Harry McCoy, Mae Busch, Chester Conklin, Edgar Kennedy, and Harry Gribbon. With "AMBROSE'S NASTY TEMPER" ,the locale is a garment factory where Mack is the manager, Dave Morris is foreman and Cecile Arnold is the owner's daughter. The usual rivalries for Cecile provides the mischief. "SOUR GRAPES" is a tale of mistaken identity involving twins. One of the twins is married, the other isn't. You can imagine the fun when the bachelor is seen and the husband is blamed! "WHEN AMBROSE DARED WALRUS" features Chester Conklin running a hotel for indigents. The fire insurance is about to be canceled for non-payment when he notices a fire in the waste basket. Instead of putting out the fire, he rushes off to the insurance company to pay his premium and then collect. When he returns, Mack has saved the guests with the help of the Keystone Fire Brigade but ,in a classic twist, Chester loses the money! "MISS FATTY'S SEASIDE LOVERS" stars Roscoe Arbuckle in drag as a bloated Mary Pickford type with a score of suitors, including young Harold Lloyd in one of his earliest appearances. In "GETTING AQUAINTED", Charlie Chaplin is married to big Phyllis Allen and big Mack Swain is married to little Mabel Normand. All four get caught up in a flirting affair in a park under the suspicious eye of cop Edgar Kennedy. Ford Sterling is the chief of the Keystone Cops in "OUR DAREDEVIL CHIEF" who is more of a bungling clod than a police chief!
(A-325) B & W ......with music added.......approx 2 hours..........................$12.98 plus shipping and handling

MACK SENNETT KEYSTONES VOL. 6
Starring in this compilation is the talented and underrated Syd Chaplin. Charlie's older half-brother shows the Fred Karno-style of pantomime and fits in easily with the Keystone brand of farce comedy. "GUSSLE THE GOLFER" has Syd trying to impress Mack Swain's wife by demonstrating his abilities as a golfer and an acrobat. Naturally, he's thoroughly incompetent at it! Later, in spite of cheating at cards, he loses his money. The Keystone Cops raid the clubhouse and the slapstick is in full swing! "GUSSLE'S DAY OF REST" has Syd and his wife trying to vacation at an ocean resort only to have things go wrong. His wife is knocked down by a model T Ford. Gussle tries to tear it apart then attempts to steal it running the car into a cliff! "GUSSLE TIED TO TROUBLE" has Syd and his wife at an alpine resort preparing to make a mountain climb. Wifey catches Gussle flirting with the bar maid. He needs a mountain to separate himself from trouble! "GUSSLE'S BACKWARD WAY" has him set upon by robbers while riding a mule through a creek bed. He escapes and makes his way to a resort where he's treated like a hero at a party. In "GUSSLE'S WAYWARD PATH", Syd plays the henpecked husband who can't help flirting much to the dismay of his huge wife played by Phyllis Allen. But in a twist, he catches his wife flirting with a stranger and is properly indignant.
(A-326) B & W silent with music score added.................................$12.98 plus shipping and handling

LLOYD & CHASE at Keystone
Both Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chase learned their craft partly at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios around 1915. This collection shows them at the start of their great careers. Harold plays one of the suitors in "MISS FATTY'S SEASIDE LOVERS". He has a featured role in "COURTHOUSE CROOKS" starring Ford Sterling. Charley Chase with the Keystone Cops in "LOVE, LOOT AND CRASH" with Harold Lloyd in a cameo as a vegetable cart vendor. Charley also stars with Mae Busch in "SETTLED AT THE SEASIDE".
(A-519) B & W silent w/ music added......approximately 1 hour total.....$12.98 + shipping & handling
 

GOLDEN AGE OF SENNETT Vol. 3
In this collection, such greats include Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Harry Langdon, Vernon Dent, Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, The Keystone Cops, and others are here. "SUPER-HOOPER-DYNE LIZZIES" is both an antique car buff's dream as well as a fun gadget comedy as Billy Bevan tries to run a radio-operated automobile. One of the all-time classic Keystone Cop chases is featured in "WANDERING WILLIES". Harry Langdon stars with his long-time co-hort Vernon Dent in the complete version of "SATURDAY AFTERNOON". It seems poor wife-whipped Harry can't even miss his trolly car to get home on time without a tirade from his wifey. Vernon gets him involved with a couple of picnic "dates" that evolve into a jealous boy-friends battle with Harry and Vernon. In "HEARTS AND FLOWERS" Louise Fazenda is a geeky flower girl smitten with band leader Ford Sterling who at first wants nothing to do with her until he thinks she's an heiress. The worm turns when it is revealed it was a practical joke and Ford must deal with angry family members!
(A-146) B & W with score added.................approximately 90 minutes total.......$12.98 plus shipping and handling

HARRY LANGDON at SENNETT Vol. 1
Baby faced comic Harry Langdon had been kicking around in Vaudeville for years when he was signed by Sennett to appear in a series of comedies in the mid-1920's. At first they didn't know quite what to do with him but writer-director Frank Capra and his associate Harry Edwards created the Stan-Laurelesque baby-faced innocent and it clicked with audiences immediately. While neither Laurel or Langdon copied each other per se, their styles were similar and concurrent. "FEET OF MUD" casts Harry as a street sweeper who becomes involved in a tong war in Chinatown but winds up helping rescue his girl friend who is held captive by Chinese gangsters. Harry then stars in "LUCKY STARS". The domestic life of Harry is put into high gear in "SATURDAY AFTERNOON" when Harry is cohearsed into an afternoon picnic with his work buddy Vernon Dent and two girls who have jealous boys friends! Finally Harry stars in a non-Sennett talkie "KNIGHT DUTY" which takes place in a wax museum where a stolen jewel is the subject of a chase with the villain, the cops and Harry pretending to be wax dummies to avoid capture. Finally, a bonus item featuring Harry in a Panoram Soundie music video called "MABEL, INC."
(A-45) B & W silent and sound ................approximately 95 minutes total...........$9.98 plus shipping and handling

HARRY LANGDON at SENNETT Vol. 2
Langdon is featured in the 1924 Sennett comedy "ALL NIGHT LONG", the 1925 Sennett comedy "HIS MARRIAGE WOW" in which Harry is about to get married but some of the in-laws to be are a bit on the eccentric side. Especially the crazy Vernon Dent who takes Harry for one wild ride!  Also featured is the  1926 World War 1 comedy "SOLDIERMAN" as well as one of his early non-Sennett talkies from 1933, "THE STAGE HAND".
(A-46) B & W silent and sound ................approximately  90 minutes ........$9.98 plus shipping and handling

HARRY LANGDON at SENNETT Vol. 3
In this third offering, Harry stars in "THE SEA SQUAWK" in which he gets involved with some eccentric happenings. "FIDDLESTICKS" features Harry as a down-and-out bass fiddle player who is so bad the people throw anything they can get their hands on at him! This gives the local junk dealer an idea! Harry winds up successful but not as his music teacher imagined! In "BOOBS IN THE WOODS", Harry takes on the timber industry with amusing results! Harry's first film for Sennett, "PICKING PEACHES" is featured also on this collection. It co-stars Andy Clyde, Mary Akin, Jack Cooper, Alice Day, Marceline Day and the comic who would be associated with Harry for the next two decades, Vernon Dent.
(A-316) B & W silent w/music score..........approx 90 minutes.............$9..98 plus shipping and handling

BILLY BEVAN at SENNETT - Silents Vol.1
Billy Bevan stars in this compilation of Mack Sennett comedies from the 1920's. Titles here include "BUTTERFINGERS" (1925), "PINK PAJAMAS" (1925), "ICE COLD COCOS" (1926), and "CIRCUS TODAY" (1926).
(A-601-V) B & W ......silent with music added.....................................$12.98 plus shipping and handling

THE EXTRA GIRL (1923)
Mack Sennett produced this feature as a starring vehicle for his long-time star Mabel Normand. This is a Cinderella-type story of a small town girl who comes to Hollywood and gets into pictures. Of course there are comic twists and complications that make this basic storyline fun to watch. The most memorable scene in this film is where Mabel leads a lion around by a rope through the studio much to the fear of everyone else! A fine behind the scenes look at the Sennett Studios is an added bonus!
(A-225) Color tinted silent w/ music score added....approx 70 minutes..$9.98 plus shipping and handling

W.C. FIELDS Comedy Festival (four by Sennett)
The great man's short comedies are all here on one blockbuster-sized compilation including "DOWN MEMORY LANE" where he does the checkers skit with Tamany Young. "TALES OF MANHATTEN" with Phil Silvers and Maragaret Dumont, "HIP ACTION" with Bobby Jones, "THE GOLF SPECIALIST", "THE PHARMACIST", "THE DENTIST", "THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER" and "THE BARBER SHOP".
(A-134 ) B & W sound approximately 2 hours total ....................$9.98 plus shipping and handling

MACK SENNETT AND THE DAWN OF SOUND
When the silent era came to an end around 1929 , Sennett was faced with a world-wide depression and no major stars in his studio. He therefore had to hire some new stars and modernize his comedies to the taste of the audiences of the 1930's. He had some success with such stars as W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby. This compilation profiles several of his best talking comedies.
(A-328) B & W sound..........................................................$14.98 plus shipping and handling

Movies About Movies Vol. 2
This collection of films is from the silent era. Two are by Sennett, who regularly poked fun at his own business of movie-making. In "CRAZY TO ACT", Oliver Hardy plays a rich movie producer who finances an old fashioned mellodrama for his girl friend Mildred June. An incompetent film director and crew cause him to lose both the film and the girl. Mack Sennett's back-lot and cyclorama are very much a part of the action and atmsophere of the old silent era studios. In "A GIRL'S FOLLY", starring Robert Warwick, June Elvidge, Doris Kenyon and Johnny Hines we get a look at another silent movie studio with the back-lot, cameras, film editors, projection rooms and the extras in their varied costumes. This film was directed by Maurice Tourner. Back again at the Sennett Studios, we get a classic look at  movie-going at the old time Nickelodeans and celebrity-worship in "A MOVIE STAR". This is a tour-de-forece for veteran comic Mack Swain who plays a bloated cowboy star who shows up at a local theater to admire his own acting and take in all the attention of the ladies.
(A-680) B&W with some color tints.........approximately 80 minutes....$9.98 plus shipping & handling

HYPNOTIZED starring Moran & Mack
 This early 30's talking comedy was directed by pioneering legend Mack Sennett. It is possibly the worst comedy ever made as judged by nearly everyone who has ever seen it! Then or Now! Still, it has a curiosity appeal. The original Charles Mack was gone and a substitute actor plays one short scene at the start then it becomes a George Moran vehicle with able assistance by veteran Sennett comedian Charlie Murray and actor Ernest Torrence. Sennett had a thing about lions chasing comedians and with the bulk of the action taking place aboard an ocean liner, a lion gets loose and the hysteria is on.
 (A-691-V) B & W sound ...............approximately 70 long minutes..........$9.98 plus toxic waste fees

BING AT SENNETT
Three of Bing Crosby's 2-reel musicals for Mack Sennett are featured. "BLUE OF THE NIGHT" , "BILLBOARD GIRL" , and "DREAM HOUSE".  "I SURRENDER DEAR" , "ONE MORE CHANCE" and "SING BING SING". Complete and restored from 35mm, best quality around.
(A-233) B & W ......................approx 2 hours total......................................$9.98 + shipping and handling

RECOMMENDED READING
"SMILE WHILE THE RAINDROPS FALL" by Brian Anthony and Andy Edmonds (Scarecrow Press) #58
The story of Charley Chase whose prolific output has made him be taken for granted by all but true comedy enthusiasts who know his greatness. His work with Sennett, Hal Roach and finally Columbia is documented with the most complete filmography ever compiled.

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