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FATTY AND MABEL AT THE SAN FRANCISCO WORLD'S FAIR
This is another example of Mack Sennett using the occasion of a major event to film a comedy in a spectacular setting. In this instance, it is the World's Fair.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete comedy release by Blackhawk with historical introduction / ........L.N. shape ....................$10.

FATTY & MINNIE HEE-HAW (1915)
Billed as an "Indian comedy", Roscoe plays opposite the female Indian Minnie Hee-Haw and is also joined in this comedy by Minta Durfee.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy (approx 400') by Blackhawk Films /  Ex-L.N. shape..............$20.

FATTY'S MAGIC PANTS
Also featuring Minta Durfee, Alice Davenport, Harry McCoy, Bert Roach and Charley Chase
This is one of the many popular Keystone releases featuring Arbuckle with a great supporting cast. It was released on December 14, 1914. It is taken from a reissue print titled "Fatty's Suitless Day" from several years later.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reel comedy from Blackhawk Films ...Ex  shape.........$10.

MABEL'S NEW HERO  (1913)
Arbuckle and Mabel Normand are featured  in this Mack Sennett Keystone comedy. It was issued years later under the title of "Fatty and the Bathing Beauties" which is where the pre-print for this Blackhawk Films issue came from and is quite sharp and clear.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reel comedy (approx 200') by Blackhawk Films with historical introduction /  Ex-L.N. shape..............$12.

The ROUNDERS (1914)
Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin as drunks on the town in this Mack Sennett Keystone comedy.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reel comedy (approx 200') by Blackhawk Films /  Ex-L.N. shape..............$10.

THE SPEED KINGS (1915) starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand
Mack Sennett frequently used real events to stage one of his Keystone comedies thus taking advantage of a spectacular setting for free. In this case it is an
automobile race with the drivers competing for Mabel's favor.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reel comedy from Blackhawk / approx 200' / L.N. shape...............$10.
 

CONEY ISLAND starring Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton
This lively slapstick 2-reeler was made in 1917 on location at Coney Island, New York. While many of the rides and attractions seen in this near-century-old film has disappeared, the sense of abandonment and zaniness are present whatever generation is present. Buster plays a bodyguard who gets tangled up with Fatty and his
girl and after many adventures throughout Luna Park, they wind up in jail!
Regular 8mm / b&w / complete 2-reel version silent edition / L.N. shape..................$15.

THE GENERAL  (Roaring Rails) starring  Buster Keaton
This quite simply put, is considered the greatest silent era comedy ever made and has consistently made the top ten all-time film lists. Keaton's brilliant staging, gag structure and historical setting leaves one with an indelible feeling of having virtually experienced a true historic event!. This edition was put out by Motion Picture Bureau.
Regular  8mm / b & w /silent / 800-foot  feature (on two 400-foot reels) release by Motion Picture Bureau/ nice quality / Ex shape.....................$25

LOVE NEST ON WHEELS (1937) Buster is joined by his mother, sister & brother in this great Rube-Goldberg-type hotel comedy! As a sleepy family who haven't the gumption to swat a fly on their nose ("he'll fall off come the first frost") they are about to loose the hotel for a lack of customers when some honeymooners arrive. The elevator is run by a mule pulling a rope and they get hot towel from the kitchen by way of suspension wires throughout the hotel. When the sheriff comes with their dispossession papers they must find a way to raise money fast so they convince the newlyweds to buy a trailer they have for sale. Problem is that a cow has moved in and they can't get it out! Loaded with great gags this is a first rate Keaton talkie and a good chance to see his family working with him.
16mm/sof  / 2-reeler (approx 800') .........................Sp order.....$189.

MY WIFE'S RELATIONS (1922)
Buster marries into a family with chilling results.
16mm / Sound (music scored) / b & w / nice sharp dupe (there really are no bonafied "originals" on these early Keatons /  print in Ex shape......$85.

THE PLAY HOUSE (1921) Comique / First National
Here we have one of the holy grails of 16mm film collecting - previously only ever available in practically unwatchable dupes with missing footage -- offered here for the very first time in a SUPERB new complete edition!!!! Buster Keaton stars in one of his first bonafide masterpieces as a stagehand who dreams of himself in multiple exposure (executed masterfully and magically through photography by Elgin Lessley.) Upon awaking from his dream, Buster encounters as well as creates more comic surrealism within a vaudeville setting. Buster is supported by Virginia Fox, one of two stage twins he falls in love with and burly Joe Roberts, his stage boss who he is constantly at odds with,. Written and directed by Keaton and Eddie Cline. This new edition boasts excellent picture quality AND ALL ORIGINAL INTERTITLES -INCLUDING MAIN OPENING TITLES AND END TITLE!!!! (not even the Kino Video edition has original titles !) The closing leader even retains the "End Part One/Part Two" title cards (which originally came between reels one and two). Finally, this edition contains a truly dynamite custom synchronized track using authentic period music by the stellar Paragon Ragtime Orchestra! This is truly THE edition to have on this title and will become a treasured part of your film collection.
16mm /(B&W/silent with music & effects/"two reels") ..............Sp order...(currently at) $225.


SEEING STARS (c1922) featuring Buster Keaton with Charlie Chaplin & all star cast
First National. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin appear TOGETHER on screen some thirty years before their teaming in LIMELIGHT in the First National promotionalfilm, SEEING STARS ("the only motion picture of it's kind ever made"). Their appearance together is at a dinner held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to form the Independent Screen Actors Guild. Chaplin is seated alongside Jackie Coogan - Thomas Ince and Marshall Neilan are also with them. Keaton appears to be"the waiter" for the evening and, as a running gag, he keeps taking dinnerware away from Jackie! The film also promotes the upcoming releases of THE BALLOONATIC, DAYDREAMS and THE PILGRIM - utilizing unused alternate takes from those films! Others who appear throughout this "First National Attraction" include Norma and Constance Talmadge, Richard Barthelmess, Ben Turpin, Charles Ray and Louis B. Mayer. While the film is over 10 minutes long (over 400-feeet) it is obviously not complete - it's fragmentary state due to nitrate decomposition. However this material represents all that survives of this rare and unique piece of silent cinema history.
16mm / silent / b & w / approx 400-feet / ....................................Sp order... (currently at) $149.

THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUES HER starring Buster Keaton, Alan Mowbray, Hugh Herbert, Joyce Compton
A sixty minute featurette of the classic hokum comedy play "The Drunkard".
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / 1,200-feet on three 400' reels / Good shape but  no opening titles or prologue................$25.

 

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BIG RED RIDING HOOD (1925)
stars Charley Chase (as his early screen persona, Jimmy Jump) who has been commissioned to translate the book "Little Red Riding Hood" in to Swedish. However Charley is financially challenged and must grab ganders at the book from an open-air bookstand (tended by a persnickety old man and his lovely daughter - the cute as a button, Martha Sleeper.) The film contains a daydream sequence (with Helen Gilmore as the title character!) and a climax involving a bit of dark humor (a motorist who has purchased the book is murdered!) and one of the weirdest sights on film - Charley riding on a bicycle along side a runaway car - all the while totally immersed in reading the book that's sitting on the backseat! Directed by Leo McCarey. Produced by Hal Roach and released through Pathe.
16mm /color tinted / silent / one-reel.....current lab costs at $110.

CRAZY LIKE A FOX (1926) Charley thinks he's hooked into a pre-arranged marriage with a homely girl so he acts as though he's crazy. He later discovers the girl is someone he already met and is very desirable. Also appearing is Oliver Hardy.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 2-reels-approximately 400-feet total / Blackhawk print; Ex-L.N. shape .....................$15.

CRAZY LIKE A FOX (1926) Charley thinks he's hooked into a pre-arranged marriage with a homely girl so he acts as though he's crazy. He later discovers the girl is someone he already met and is very desirable. Also appearing is Oliver Hardy.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 2-reels-approximately 400-feet total / Blackhawk print; Ex-L.N. shape .....................$15.

LOVE, LOOT AND CRASH  (1915)
Charley in one of his better Keystone era comedies, he is in love with a girl he plans to elope with when a pair of crooks, one of them disguised as a cook, robs her house. The Keystone Copes are well featured in this slapstick conclusion. Watch for Harold Lloyd, as a vegetable vendor, getting knocked aside during the chase finale!
Super 8mm / B & W / silent / complete 1-reel edition by Blackhawk Films / minor wear at start..............$8.

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE (1935)
Charley in one of his best, most versatile comedies he ever made. He visits his relatives in the mountains where he must   defend his
grand-pappy (played also by Chase!) in a breech of promise suit.
Super 8mm  Sound / b & w / complete comedy release / ............approximately 400 / used shape but quite acceptable'..................$15.
 

HIGH AND DIZZY  Special new custom edition  (1920) Roach/Pathe comedy.
Harold Lloyd stars in one of his most hilarious and "hair-raising" two-reelers. Harold has a failing medical practice and is desperate for patients. Upon a "walk-in" by
lovely Mildred Davis who seeks treatment for sleepwalking, Harold is immediately smitten and ingeniously creates the illusion that his business is thriving. Later he
helps colleague Roy Brooks "save" a batch of bootleg brew and the sloshed pair avert one mishap after another, all the while creating small disasters for those unfortunate enough to cross their path. The film concludes with a remarkable "thrill" sequence with Harold in plenty of danger on the ledge of a hotel building, thanks to sleepwalking Mildred! Directed by Hal Roach. All original titles and intertitles. This new "deluxe" edition comes replete with a dynamite custom synchronized track featuring music by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
16mm /sof / B&W/silent with music & effects /"two reels" approx 800-feet) .................Sp order...(currently at) $225.

LUKE'S MOVIE MUDDLE
with  Snub Pollard
Harold in one of his only known surviving comedies from the "Lonesome Luke" era at Roach Studios. He works in a local movie house and loads of wild, broad slapstick events ensue. This print came from a French-titled re-issue call "Director of the Cinema".
Super 8mm / B & W / silent / 1-reeler (approx 200')....L.N. shape.............$15.

RING UP THE CURTAIN starring Harold Lloyd
with Bebe Daniels, Noah Young, Snub Pollard
Harold is an energetic stage hand at a local vaudeville house where he presides over some wild happenings and a tempermental group of performers.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reeler by Blackhawk Films with historical introduction / L.N. shape .............$15.

SAFETY LAST (segment) starring  Harold Lloyd
This is the Time-Life version opening first third of the feature with some lively comical sequences. Harold bids a tearful farewell to his family but encounters some funny mix-ups at the train station. Living in the big city, with his room mate, Bill, they spend a lot of non-working time avoiding the landlady who wishes her rent money. Harold keeps spending it on trinkets for his girl friend Mildred. Late for work one morning, Harold must steal a ride in any vehicle he can get but still arrives late and must find away to sneak in to the department store he works in without the supervisor finding out. Meanwhile, his pal Bill gets into a scrape with a local police man and must climb up the side of a building to avoid capture. This human fly act gives Harold an idea for a publicity stunt!
Super 8mm / b&w / silent /  approximately 400-feet  from Blackhawk / approx. 20 minutes / Ex-L.N. shape................$8.

WONDERFUL WORLD OF HAROLD LLOYD
This is a specially produced introduction to students of Harold Lloyd with excerpts from  several of his best remembered comedies. From "Movie Crazy", the bicycle gag, From "The Kid Brother", the monkey sequence, from "For Heaven's Sake", the great street car chase. Next, an extract from "Speedy" with the cab fight gags. A couple of sequences from "Girl Shy" include the fantasy dream scenes with the girl "flappers" as Harold imagines himself to be the Casanova as well as the scene with Jobyna Ralston. This compilation concludes with the cop chase from "For Heaven's Sake"
16mm Sound     / b & w / music and narration (approx 900-feet) / Vg shape, few splices, titles gone but still a top quality print........$75.
 

A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO - Americom Films digest of the feature
The boys are assistants to Dante the Magician in this excerpt from "A-Haunting We Will Go". It's one of the better edited highlight digests from Americom . When Stan climbs the rope during the Hindu rope trick, Ollie is repeatedly hit with a blow gun by a bratty kid causing Stan to hang at the top over the screaming audience. Then the casket routine backfires on Stan!
S-8mm / silent /b & w /  200-foot-reel edition..................$7.

BELOW ZERO (1930) silent edition
The depression was in full swing and Stan and Ollie play two street musicians who play for coins. They mostly receive sneers and indifference. It doesn't help that they've been standing in front of an institute for the deaf and dumb! When they move to an are where people can actually hear them, they are met with more distain and wind up in a battle that destroys their instruments! When all seems lost, the find a wallet with money in it but must evade a thief who tries to rob them. A cop on the beat prevents the thief from attacking them and they invite the officer to lunch with them. Having enjoyed a steak dinner with all the trimmings, they proceed to pay the bill only to discover the wallet they found belongs to the very cop they are with. He thinks they lifted it off him and he leaves them to fend for themselves against an angry restaurateur and his thugs!
Super 8nm / b & w / complete 2-reel release from Blackhawk Films ............$10.

BLOCKHEADS  (1938) (odd reel)
This is reel # 2 of the three part feature. In this segment, Ollie is carrying Stan back to his car from the old soldier's home, thinking he's lost the leg! When he discovers Stan can walk, he send him to move a dump truck that's blocking his car. Stan hits the wrong lever and dumps the load of dirt on Ollie and the car! Nex scene is Billy Gilbert's as he describes to newspapermen his hunting exploits in Africa. By now, Stan and Ollie have arrived home and Stan proceeds to run Hardy's car through the garage door! At the hotel where Ollie lives, they must walk up 13 flights when the elevator is out of order. On their way, they encounter James Finlayson and a battle ensues!
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / approx 400' / .....................................$10.

BUSY BODIES (1933)
Stan and Ollie are carpenters at a local lumber yard where they first encounter a co-worker who has no sense of humor or likeability (played by Charlie Hall). After starting a feud with him they start a feud with each other and proceed to make a shambles of the place! Full of great sight-gags and slapstick, Stan and Ollie work, more or less, as a "solo" act with the other characters only appearing near the start and end of the film.
Super 8mm /  b&w /  silent adaptation /  2-reels (approx 350 feet.) Vg-Ex..................................................$10.
Super 8mm Sound / b&w /  / 2-reels (approx 350 feet.) .......................................................................$25.

THE BIG NOISE - Americom Films 50' headliner (different scenes from the 200' edition) Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Ex......$5.

THE BUS - Americom Films 200' digest excerpt from "Dancing Masters" / regular 8mm / B & W / silent ) Ex shape..........$7.

BIG BUSINESS - Blackhawk Films 50-foot digest headliner edition /regular 8mm / b & w / silent / G-Vg shape........$5.

DOUBLE WHOOPEE (1929)
Jean Harlow joins Stan and Ollie in this roaring 20's hotel comedy about visiting Royalty and mistaken identity. As doorman and footman they can't seem to stop bickering over duties and tips long enough to get the job done correctly. They unintentionally disrupt a visiting Prince and his staff without even realizing the havoc they caused! When Jean Harlow arrives and her dress is accidentally torn off by the cab door, things really get wild!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films /  approximately 400-feet.....L.N. shape.......$10.

FROM SOUP TO NUTS (1928) They boys are hired as butlers for a swank high-society dinner party. Naturally, they have had no experience in this level of service and the guests are treated to a serving of incompetence by Stan and Ollie unmeasured in the social world! This is probably one of their best all-around "gag" comedies and a sure fire audience pleaser. Also of interest is a rare outburst of aggressive dominance by Stanley over Ollie and the dinner guests.
Regular 8mm/  b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk ............Ex-L.N. shape..........$10.
Super 8mm     / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk..............L.N. shape..............$10.

THE CHIMP (1932) Silent adaptation
As incompetent Circus performers they literally bring the house (or tent) down! Stuck with a flea circus and a gorilla named Ethel, they must try and sneak it into a rooming house that doesn't even allow dogs much less gorillas! The landlord's wife is also named Ethel and what he hears going on in Stan & Ollie's room drives him crazy!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent edition from Blackhawk Films / approx 425' / Vg-Ex shape, short Blackhawk title otherwise ok........$10.

COUNTY HOSPITAL  (1932)
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg from his hip down to his foot. Stan visits him there and upsets the entire floor with his bungling to the point of getting Ollie thrown out of the hospital by the angry doctor played by Billy Gilbert. While Stanley is "helping" Ollie get dressed, he sits on a syringe that is filled with potent that will make him sleepy. Ollie wants Stan to drive but after they are on the road, the sleeping effect starts to take hold and the boys are in for a wild ride through the streets as the groggy Stanley can't cope with the skidding car and the traffic while Ollie fears he will wind up back in the hospital with even more broken bones before the wild car ride is over!
A prime Laurel and Hardy comedy that derives most of the laughter from their characters and does not rely just on the action at the conclusion.
Super 8mm  / silent adaptation of the complete comedy release by Blackhawk Films ............$10.

CRIMINALS AT LARGE - Metro Films 50-foot digest edition from "Liberty" / regular 8mm / b & w / silent Vg shape....$5.

CHUMP AT OXFORD (1940) Laurel & Hardy in Blackhawk regular 8mm silent 4-reel feature digest Ex .............$20.

DIRTY WORK (1933) silent version
Stan and Ollie are chimney-sweeps in the house of a crazed scientist who is working on a rejuvenation formula. What he needs is a house-rejuvenation after Stan and Ollie are through! Some of Stan and Ollie's funniest two-man gags occur in this comedy as they basically play the comedy without much interaction with either the scientist or the droll butler who only occasionally shows up in time to get doused with filthy ashes and must leave immediately after his indignation has occurred ("Somewhere an electric chair is waiting" he grumbles) Lucien Littlefield, as the scientist is serviceably eccentric and nutty to give Stan & Ollie a few worrisome looks as they eventually get caught up in his experiment with making living creatures younger. The off-beat ending is another in the list of unusual conclusions that Laurel & Hardy used to set their films apart from the rest of the comedians.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent adapted version by Blackhawk films / complete 2-reeler / approximately 400 feet /L.N. shape......$10.

DOUBLE TROUBLE (1936)
This one-reel sound comedy digest from the feature "Our Relations" begins with Captain Sidney Toler requesting the favor from Alf and Bert to pick up a valuable pearl ring. When the captain shows up at the rendezvous and learns they are at a nightclub, living large, he confronts the wrong set of twins and a riot ensues in the nightclub. The finale at the dock with the boys in cement about to be dumped into the drink culminates in their rescue by the twin brothers.
16mm Sound   / b & w / 400-foot one -reel comedy digest from Hollywood Enterprises.................................... $20.

FLYING ELEPHANTS - Atlas Films 200-foor reel digest version in original box  regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Ex shape......$7.

HOOSEGOW (1929)
Stan and Ollie in are arrested for "watching a raid" on what are probably some boot-leggers and arrive in a paddy wagon at a work camp. Their attempts to escape are thwarted and they settle in digging ditches with picks. They do more damage to their hats and clothes than they do the ground they are supposed to be breaking! When the lunch break comes, they are muzzled out of place at the eating table and a convict sends them to their own private table nearby which, of course, is really the warden's table. After destroying the wardens' lunch, they attempt to get some food from the cook who tells them to get some fire wood for the stove. "The more wood you get, the more you get to eat", the cook says so Stan and Ollie proceed to cut down the tallest tree they can find. Naturally it is one with a guard in it and it lands on the cook's mess tent destroying everything. Back in the trenches, they get into another fight and a hurled pick misses Stan but lands in the radiator of the visiting Governor's auto! Using rice to stop the leak, it boils over and a huge rice-throwing battle ensues!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent Blackhawk Films adaptation of the original talkie / ......................................$10.

THE INVENTION - Americom Films 200' digest from Dancing Masters / S-8mm / b & w / silent / with sound-track record..............$10.

LAUGHING GRAVY (1931) silent version
The boys find themselves in a boarding house where their landlord does not allow pets, especially barking dogs. Stan and Ollie do their best to conceal their little dog, "Laughing Gravy" but the intolerant landlord removes the pooch and puts him out in the cold, snowy night. Angry and heartbroken, Stan and Ollie decide to rescue the freezing pooch and smuggle him back into their room which is on the second story. Windows, chimneys are the only way for the boys to succeed but the disasters pile up on them and they find themselves evicted. Or do they?  A fine combination of character study, pantomime and old fashioned slapstick mark this excellent comedy showing once again how Stan and Ollie need only the slimmest of situations to weave a 20 minute laugh fest.
Super 8mm / b&w silent adaptation of the original complete comedy release by Blackhawk Films ...........$10.

MANY A SLIP -Coast Films 50-foot digest headline edition / scene from "Helpmates" / regular 8mm / b & w /silent..Vg shape...$5.

MEN O' WAR  (silent edition)
This comedy finds Laurel & Hardy as two sailors on leave who encounter two young ladies. They take them to the local soda fountain and find they haven't
enough money to buy four drinks so Ollie conspires to have Stan refuse a drink but the girls keep hedging him on and through a lucky strike on a slot machine
they win enough money to take the gals on a rented row boat ride. One collision after another results in a massive free-for-all on the water!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent version by Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape................................$10.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY (1936)
This is another of the excerpts from Laurel & Hardy's feature "Our Relations" as released by the home movie company Hollywood Enterprises. This digest opens with the arrival of a telegram for Hardy from mother talking about their twin brothers, Alf & Bert. The scene then shifts to the Denker's Beer Garden scene where the two twins, Alf & Bert pick up  Alice & Lilly. Then after they leave, Stan and Ollie show up with their wives and also James Finlayson appears and, thinking they are Alf & Bert, get Stan and Ollie into trouble with the wives. The boys decide to extract revenge on Fin in a slapstick finale as Fin is carted off by the burly waiter and bartender! Print is timed a hair darker than usual in a couple of scenes otherwise a typical print.
16mm / Sound  / b & w / 1-reeler (appox. 400')  Hollywood Enterprises Films...................$20

THE MUSIC BOX (1932)
Probably their most honored and famous sound short comedy and winner of an Academy Award for the best short picture of the year. 
16mm / Sound  / b & w / 3-reeler (appox. 1,200') like new Blackhawk print....................$165.

SCRAM (1932) Silent adaptation
Out on their luck, the homeless Stan and Ollie are ordered out of town by a grisly Judge, played by Rychard Cramer. Drunken Arthur Houseman feels sorry for the boys and offers to give them shelter when they assist him in finding his dropped keys in the pouring rain. Unfortunately, he takes them to the wrong house and Stan and Ollie make themselves home in, who else but the judge's home where the boys and the judge's wife accidentally get drunk on spiked water left by Arthur Houseman! When the judge returns home, and sees the three of them in pajamas laughing up a storm, watch out! An excellent example of how Laurel and Hardy could take such touchy material and make it plausible as well as funny without any obvious bad taste. They also get to do their laughing routine and drunk act.
Super 8mm  / b & w / silent / complete comedy adaptation by Blackhawk Films / ......................$10

THE SOILERS (1923) starring Stan Laurel
Not available on film for many years now, this is one of Stan Laurel's best remembered movie spoofs from his solo career prior to teaming with Oliver Hardy. The classic western by Rex Beach, "The Spoilers" is lampooned to the hilt by Stan as he plays the corny hero in the mock-William S. Hart-style of overly dramatic fashion. His battle with villain James Finlayson is punctuated and interrupted regularly by a cowboy who's not quite regular! An obvious refugee of Humpback Mountain, he steals the gun Stan and Fin are fighting over and skips off merrily to shoot his load. The overblown fist fight takes on cartoon-like gags such as Stan twisting Fin's arm around like rubber! Great fun as a show-starter! Print is from Glenn Photo Supply in the late 1970's. Has some very minimal projection wear and no V.S.
16mm   / b & w / silent / double perf stock./ approx 400-feet/ ...............................................auction pending.

SUGAR DADDIES
In this comedy, Jimmy Finlayson is a wealthy playboy who gets into a blackmailing problem. Stan Laurel is his scatter-brained attorney and Oliver Hardy is his butler. Together, Stan and Ollie must try and keep their boss from the scheming blackmailers in a wild chase through an amusement park. From this thread of a plot comes a series
of fun gags and masquerades as Stan tries to impersonate Ollie's wife with Finlayson bent-over double under a long coat to act as the legs and sneak by the blackmailers. Try doing this while running through an amusement park!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent complete 400-foot Blackhawk release........L.N. shape.............$10.

SUGAR DADDIES
In this comedy, Jimmy Finlayson is a wealthy playboy who gets into a blackmailing problem. Stan Laurel is his scatter-brained attorney and Oliver Hardy is his butler. Together, Stan and Ollie must try and keep their boss from the scheming blackmailers in a wild chase through an amusement park. From this thread of a plot comes a series of fun gags and masquerades as Stan tries to impersonate Ollie's wife with Finlayson bent-over double under a long coat to act as the legs and sneak by the blackmailers. Try doing this while running through an amusement park!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent complete 400-foot Blackhawk release........Ex -L.N. shape.............$10.

TWO TARS (1928)
This may rank as the funniest silent era short comedy ever made, hands down!  Sailors Stan and Ollie are on shore leave. They pick up a couple of girls and rent a car for the day. Caught in a traffic jam, one bump here and one retaliation there leads to  the original "road rage" battle of all-time!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films.....L.N. shape.......$10.
Super 8mm  / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films.....L.N. shape.......$10.
16mm Sound music scored / B & W  / approx. 800' / Wonderland dupe with music score...............(W. S.)...............$45

THAT'S MY WIFE (1929) Ollie's wife walks out on him because friend Stanley hangs around the house too much. Ollie's rich Uncle visits and demands a happy home life as part of  the inheritance qualifications. Ollie co-opts Stan to pose as "the little woman". Not only does Stanley have to suffer the humiliation of posing as Hardy's "wife" but the rich uncle takes them out to a swank nightclub where a jewel thief hides the stolen goods down the back of Stanley's dress. Their attempts to shake the loot loose on the dance floor will bring the house down. Stan's classic drag characterization is employed to good use in this funny roaring 20's era comedy!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete silent edition by Blackhawk Films....mint, L.N. shape........$10

THEIR PURPLE MOMENT (1928)
Their first venture into domestic comedy with the shrewish wives giving them much to be afraid of when they step out for a fun evening! Stan hoards money away so he and Ollie can have a night on the town. Mrs. Laurel gets wind of it and penny-pinching shrew substitutes cigar coupons for money in Stan's secret stash. At the nightclub they run up the tab only to discover they have no money! The wives follow them to the night club to confront them but they are already trying to sneak out without getting arrested for not paying their bill!
Regular 8mm   / complete 2-reel 400-foot edition by Blackhawk Films ...used print Vg shape.....$15.

TWICE TWO (1933) silent adaptation - abridged
Laurel and Hardy play each other's wives in this novelty comedy. Stan is married to Ollie's sister, Fannie (played hilariously by Hardy in drag!) and Ollie is married to Stanley's sister (played, of course, by Laurel). Trick photography matches the "four" of them convincingly. Mrs. "Laurel" plans a surprise party for her brother Ollie complete with a big cake. The wives are no less clumsy than their respective brothers and the sight gags and slapstick abound in this comedy that also features some
fine pantomime humor as well. Stan Laurel's table routine with the toast and napkin, for example was completely ad-libbed and never set down in the script.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent adaptation of the complete release  (approximately 200')......used shape with some projection lines but otherwise fine......$5.

UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE  (1929) silent edition
Ollie brings Stan home for a home-cooked dinner by his wife, played by Mae Busch. An argument ensues and the boys are on their own for dinner. A neighbor, played by Thelma Todd, offers to help but her dress catches fire in the kitchen and off it comes! Unable to get back to her apartment with the jealous Mrs. Hardy returning, they smuggle her out in a travel trunk. Thelma's husband, the local cop played by Edgar Kennedy, gets involved and the evening's feast turns into a martial free-for-all.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete silent edition by Blackhawk Films....mint, L.N. shape........$10.

WRONG AGAIN (1929)
Stan and Ollie are working at a horse racing stable when they hear of the kidnapping of the famous painting "Blue Boy". The horse they are caring for is also named
"Blue Boy" and they think they are in line for a reward when they return Blue Boy to the rich owner. They arrive with the horse and the owner who thinks they have his painting tells Stan and Ollie to "put Blue Boy on the piano" until he can come down stairs at deal with them. Of course they lead the horse in and struggle to get the horse on top of the grand piano with hilarious complications, especially when the police arrive with the real Blue Boy painting!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel 400-foot edition by Blackhawk Films....mint, L.N. shape........$10.


 

CRAZY HOUSE (1928)
Featuring Jean Darling, Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Harry Spear, Jackie Condon, Jay R. Smith and Pete the Pup. Poor little rich girl Jean has a streak of tomboy in her and she eyes the gang of fighting kids longingly from her window of the mansion where she lives. She invites them to a party that afternoon while her parents are away. Her father has wired the entire house with practical jokes for an April Fool's party he's planning that evening. Aware of this, sissy-boy Percy leads the gang down the primrose path so they'll be certain to set off every booby trap in the place from an electrified piano bench to rubber hotdogs at lunch. When they finally catch on, the gang give Percy his due. When Wheezer inadvertently trips a burglar alarm the police arrive just as another button is pushed and hundreds of balloons descend from the ceiling (obviously rigged by the R.N.C. and not the D.N.C.) providing camouflage for the gang to scurry away before the cops know what's going on!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel edition from Blackhawk Films ......L.N. shape .............$20.


LITTLE MOTHER (1929)
Featuring Allan "Farina" Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Joe Cobb, Harry Spear, Jean Darling, Donnie "Beezer" Smith and Pete the Pup
Since their mother has gone to heaven, "Wheezer" and "Beezer" are mothered by their resourceful sister Mary Ann, while Pop works as a night watchman. Not only do the kids keep Mary Ann up most of the night with such problems as stomach-aches (their bellies balloon out!), but they prevent Joe next door from sleeping. All the youngsters ever think about is bringing their mama back from heaven when suddenly one day "she" appears. It's her twin sister, who's come to stay with the family and seeing the love of the three children, she decides to let them go on believing she's their real mother.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films......L.N. shape...............$20.

LITTLE MOTHER (1929)
Featuring Allan "Farina" Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Joe Cobb, Harry Spear, Jean Darling, Donnie "Beezer" Smith and Pete the Pup
Since their mother has gone to heaven, "Wheezer" and "Beezer" are mothered by their resourceful sister Mary Ann, while Pop works as a night watchman. Not only do the kids keep Mary Ann up most of the night with such problems as stomach-aches (their bellies balloon out!), but they prevent Joe next door from sleeping. All the youngsters ever think about is bringing their mama back from heaven when suddenly one day "she" appears. It's her twin sister, who's come to stay with the family and seeing the love of the three children, she decides to let them go on believing she's their real mother.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films......L.N. shape...............$20.


SHIVERING SPOOKS  (1926)
Featuring Allan "Farina' Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mildred Kornman, Harry Spear, Johnny Downs, Jay R. Smith
One of the better "Spooky" comedies with the gang in a fake spiritualists house where they uncover his fraudulent practice! The gang are playing in their underground cave headquarters and tunnel their way into the fake spiritualist's headquarters. The spiritualist decides to scare the kids off by using the trick floating tables and mysterious voices from the walls among other mechanical devices.
Super 8mm  / b & w /silent / complete 2-reeler (approx 400') ..................Ex shape.................$20.

SPOOK SPOOFING (1927)
Featuring Allan "Farina' Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mildred Kornman, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Harry Spear, Johnny Aber, Jean Darling, Bobby Dean and Pete the Pup.
Farina is brave but superstitious. He carries a special charm  which he invokes to fend off demons. Joe, o the other hand, thrives on practical jokes. With help from the undertaker's son, Joe and the gang perpetuate an assortment of cruel ghostly jests on Farina. Assorted frights and indignities occur at the graveyard until an eclipse of the sun and storming high winds turn the tables in Farina's favor against his fellow gang members who have been teasing him and the ghostly gadgets backfire causing the gang to turn tail and run off!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films.....L.N. shape..........$20.
Super 8mm   / b & w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films.....L.N. shape..........$20.

UNCLE TOM'S UNCLE (1925) The gang stages a play in the local barn but the parents have some other ideas of how the afternoon can best be spent. Poor Joe Cobb! he can't stay on stage long with mama whisking him off for chores! But the show must go on! Uncle tom's Uncle had been translated into 42 languages. The gang decided to make it 43. The make-shift theater and props are a great part of the charm of this comedy set at a time when neighborhood kids make their own amusements out of things from their back yard or the junk yards.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films.....Vg  shape. with some normal projection wear............$15.

HOOK AND LADDER  (silent adaptation)
With the public asked to answer the call to all fire alarms, the gang decide to form their own fire brigade by converting their barn into a fire station with Dickie Moore as the fire chief, and helped by Stymie and Spanky, who tags along and is more hindrance than help! Their make-shift fire engine is a wobbly contraption that gets them to a real fire and they save the day helping the firemen douse a real fire.
Super 8mm   / b & w / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk / ....................$10.

MOAN & GROAN, INC. (1929) all-talking comedy
starring Farina, Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson, Wheezer, Pete the Pup, Norman "Chubby" Chaney and the rest of the gang
also starring Edgar Kennedy and Max Davidson
The rascals are visiting with the friendly cop on the beat, Edgar Kennedy, and he tells them they could have fun digging for treasure. So, the gang invade an old abandoned house with sliding secret panels and a crazy man (Max Davidson) living there who likes to play practical jokes on visitors. The kids get lost in the maze
of secret passages in the old house before Kennedy the cop arrives and stumbles his way through to eventually catching the crazy, but harmless madman.
16mm Sound / b& w / complete 2 -reeler from Blackhawk Films ........Ex-LN. shape................$90.

PIGSKIN PALOOKA  
Super 8mm Sound  / b & w / complete 1-reeler from Blackhawk / title missing, otherwise ok............................$10.

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AIR POCKETS (1924) Lige Conley stars in this fun-filled comedy about an inventor of a folding automobile getting involved with gangsters in a run-away airplane chase. Great sight gags!
Super 8mm  / complete comedy release by Blackhawk with historical introduction...................$20.

CALLING THE COPS -Charlie Chaplin in a Screen Attractions Home Movies headliner edition (16m/sil.) 100' /b & w / Vg-Ex.....$8.

DOUGH AND DYNAMITE (1914) starring Charlie Chaplin
With Chester Conklin, Fritz Schade, Norma Nichols, Cecile Arnold, Vivian Edwards, Phyllis Allen, John Frances Dillon, Edgar Kennedy, Slim
Summerville, Charley Chase and Wallace MacDonald.
Charlie and another waiter must become bakers when the regular bakers go out on strike. The strikers put dynamite in a piece of bread which is delivered to the
cake counter. It winds up in the oven and explodes.
16mm / silent / b & w /"one reel" approx. 400' ........................................................ Sold, pending payment

CRUEL, CRUEL LOVE (1914) starring Charlie Chaplin
Sennett/Keystone. This was long a lost film until this rather nice material was found. Charlie Chaplin stars as a well to do suitor (playing a variation of his "sharper"
character from his debut film, MAKING A LIVING) courting  the equally affluent Minta Durfee. The couple breaks up due to a misunderstanding. Dejected, Charlie goes home and decides to commit suicide, but his jovial butler (Edgar Kennedy) has replaced his poisoned drink with a harmless glass of water. Nonetheless, Charlie THINKS he's ingested poison and thus follows some of the hammiest melodramatics Chaplin ever performed on film (replete with a rather shocking vision of Charlie being tormented by pitchfork-throttling devils in Hell !!!!) A must have for Chaplin buffs.
16mm / sil. / b & w /silent/"one reel" approx. 400' )......................................................Sp order.......... (currently at) $115.

DUMMY FRIEND (1929) Novelty Film Co. toy film headliner of Ben Turpin comedy excerpt (16mm/ sil.) b & w /50' / orig. box....$5.

THE NICKEL-HOPPER starring Mabel Normand, Boris Karloff, Oliver Hardy (1926)
Roach/Pathecomedy. The lovely Mabel Normand stars in one of her very last films - where she plays the hard working "Paddy" - a babysitter by day and a taxi
dancer by night. Her drab life is forever complicated by her lazy and overbearing father who scares away her prospective suitors. This light comic "featurette"
(which nonetheless includes plenty of slapstick and sight gags) also features Oliver Hardy as an overly enthusiastic drummer, Boris Karloff as a creepy "masher"
and the ever-popular James Finlayson. Stan Laurel co-wrote the story and gags. Directed by F. Richard Jones. Provided on lowfade color stock with beautiful tints -
amber for day scenes, blue for night scenes and rose for the dancehall sequences. The overall picture quality is excellent. It has all it's original titles and intertitles.
16mm / sil / ( Color Tinted / Silent / "three reels"  ...........................Sp order.... (currently at) $280.

A NIGHT AT THE SHOW (1915) Essanay Comedy starring Charlie Chaplin, Bud Jamison, James T. Kelly, Paddy McGuire, Edna Purviance, John T. Rand,
Carrie Clark Ward, Leo White and May White. No narration, just music and sound effects.
16mm / Sound-music scored  / 3-reels (approx 1,000') splicy at start then average used condition print, ends abruptly but has closing credits....(W. S.)...$35.
 

WHY GIRLS SAY NO (1927) starring Max Davidson in a Roach/Pathe comedy.
Max Davidson's starring pilot film for Hal Roach (written by Stan Laurel and directed by Leo McCarey) with Spec O' Donnell, Creighton Hale, Oliver Hardy as a
policeman and a cameo by Noah Young. This Davidson short is filled with mildly politically incorrect humor, as Papa Whisselberg (Max) is dead set on his daughter
courting only "a Jewish boy" - leaving "Irisher" suitor, Creighton Hale, ethnically challenged. Great situation comedy which is not without its great sight gags
(Officer Ollie plunging into a deep mud hole, Max's exploding birthday cake, Noah's breakaway car). Long unseen until this material came to light. All original titles
and intertitles.
16mm / sil / B&W / "two reels" approx 800-feet............................Sp order.... (currently at) $220.

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THE BIG NOISE (1944) Digest version
Laurel & Hardy star in this 2-reel digest from 20th Century Fox
16mm/Sound / b & w /approx 800' / G shape, minor wear, .............(WS).................$55.

BRIDGE WIVES  (1932) starring Al St. John
Al us cast as an overwrought husband on the verge of a  nervous breakdown over the fact that his wife is neglecting him due to her bridge playing tournaments
 (a craze which is broadcast over the radio!) During the course of the film, Al has what amounts to SEVERAL conniption fits (incorporating his unique acrobatic skills) which have to be seen to be believed!!!! Directed by none other than Al’s uncle, the one and only Roscoe Arbuckle (under the
name William Goodrich). A rare find, guaranteed to bring down the house.
16mm / sof / b & w / one reel (approx 400-feet)  / ...................Sp. order ....... (currently at) $139.

BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME (1946)
Abbott & Costello star in this 2-reel digest from Universal 8/16
16mm/Sound / b & w /approx 800' L.N. print................................................$55.