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AIR POCKETS  (1924) starring Lige Conley
also featuring Earl Montgomery, Sunshine Hart, Olive Borden, Peg O'Neil and Otto Fries
Lige is an inventor of a collapsing automobile as a space saving feature. Meanwhile, the "Black Hand" mafia is threatening an industrialist that Lige is
demonstrating his invention to. Earl Montgomery is an amateur detective  who rides around in his airplane with a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat! A crazy
series of circumstances leads to a wild chase with airplanes!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete comedy release by Blackhawk Films / approx. 350-feet / with historical introduction Ex shape........$20

ALL LIT UP starring Snub Pollard
Snub Pollard stars in the Hal Roach comedy set in the prohibition era.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / 200-foot reel complete film from Blackhawk.................$10.

ALL NIGHT LONG (1924) starring Harry Langdon
This is from a series of short comedies produced by Mack Sennett Studios in the mid 1920's featuring a temporarily popular comedian named Harry Langdon who
went on to make feature films in the late 20's before fading into obscurity almost as quickly as he rose to prominence. Also in the cast of the film are Natalie
Kingston , Fannie Keyy and Vernon Dent.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / Ex shape........$15.

AN APPLE IN HIS EYE starring Edgar Kennedy & Charlie Hall
Edgar decides to make his own apple pies for his wife's bake sale. He rigs up a Rube-Goldberg-style assembly line set-up for baking pies starting with the washing machine as a dough-maker and the clothes-wringer as a pie-crust flattener. He needs more apples from his tree in the front yard but has a run in with his cantankerous neighbor, Charlie Hall. Using up all the apples on the tree on his side of the fence, Edgar must find a way to get the apples from the part of the tree extending over to Charlie Hall's yard. With the pies all baked and set out to cool, another batch gets burned causing the fire department to rush to Edgar's house just as he and Charlie are throwing the pies at each other. Before long, the errant pies are landing on the firemen and the wives who arrive with cakes and other baked goods and the bake sale becomes the food-fight event of the year!
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reel comedy / used shape; has projection lines but otherwise nice sharp picture and excellent sound....$30.

ARE SCOTCHMEN TIGHT?  starring Jack Duffy & Eddie Barry
also featuring Blanche Payson, Frank Fanning
Two tight-fisted Scottish neighbors who receive a notice that the local tax assessor is planning a visit to inspect their belongings for a personal property tax assessment. Jack Duffy immediately scrambles to gather up his prize belongings and hides them in Eddie's garage. Only Eddie , who also gets the notice, does the
same thing and stuffs Jack Duffy's garage so the assessor will think they have nothing of value. The tax assessor is strict. He'd even tax an elephant's trunk and when he discovers the furniture in the garages of the two neighbors, he fines the an additional ten percent for concealment. And you think California is tough these days? The neighborly feeling is put under considerable strain!
Super 8mm Sound music scored / b & w / 1-reel comedy release by Thunderbird Films / Ex shape........$15.
Regular 8mm    / b&w    / silent    / 200-foot reel complete film from Blackhawk...............L.N. shape...........$8.

AT THE RINGSIDE starring Snub Pollard
Snub Pollard stars in the Hal Roach comedy. Snub does a comic boxing match with Noah Young.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / 200-foot reel complete film from Blackhawk.................$8.

THE BARBER SHOP starring W. C. Fields
Also featuring Elise Cavanna, Harry Watson, Dagmar Oakland, John St. Clair, Cyril Ring.
W. C. Fields plays Cornelius O'Hare the proprietor of the Felton City barber shop. A variety of characters and funny gags highlight this film. With a lot of time for gossip and bragging Fields finds himself having to live up to some of it when a bandit enters the shop demanding that he be altered so he won't be recognized by the police. A wild finale has the bandit captured but Fields' pride a bit bruised!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films (approx. 400') / L.N. shape........$8.
Regular 8mm Sound / b & w / / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films (approx. 400') / titles missing but picks up after that.......$10.

BARNUM AND RINGLING, INC. (1928)
The gang decides to stage an animal circus by dressing up goats, dogs, and ducks as wild animals! Very creative and lots of fun. Oliver Hardy cameos in this one as
a drunken hotel guest who is spooked out by one of the animals running loose through the hotel.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel edition from Blackhawk films / L.N. shape ....$15.

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.

BE MY KING starring Lupino Lane
This is a Blackhawk Films release of Lupino Lane's Educatinal Studios comedy from 1929.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent /  two-reeler - approximately 400-feet / Ex shape.............................$15.

THE BLACKSMITH starring Buster Keaton
Another gem from Keaton's golden age of silent era short comedies. In this one, he is a bumbling blacksmith's assistant who encounters one problem after another
and virtually destroys everything he works on! Not exactly a solo film, he carries off most of his comedy bits by playing against objects.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / Ex shape........$15.

THE BANK starring Charlie Chaplin
This is a Blackhawk Films release of Charlie Chaplin's Essanay comedy from 1915.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete two-reeler - approximately 400-feet / Ex shape.............................$10.

BE MY KING starring Lupino Lane
This is a Blackhawk Films release of the silent era E. W. Hammons' Educational Pictures comedy featuring Lupino Lane and Wallace Lupino.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / released by Blackhawk Films /  approximately 400-feet / Ex shape.............................$15.

THE BIG IDEA (1924) starring Snub Pollard
with Blanche Payson and Glen Tryon
Horses were still very much in evidence on American streets in 1924 when this Snub Pollard comedy was produced by Hal Roach. Up to his usual tricks, Snub is Ignatus the Inventor who, while he has a real sixth sense about some things, is minus the first five! But Snub's inventing in "The Big Idea" is an automated street sweeper which turns out to be about the size of a garage rather than the compact units which we know today. And, it has tendencies to operate somewhat like a vacuum cleaner. You can appreciate therefore, the kind of complications that might result from Snub's demonstration of the monster before a reviewing stand filled
with the city council and the leading civic leaders of the community. The results are wild.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete comedy release from Blackhawk Films (approx 225')............$15.

BORN YESTERDAY starring Judy Holiday, William Holden and Broderick Crawford
In her Oscar-winning role of "Billie", Judy Holiday plays the dumb mistress of corrupt tycoon Broderick Crawford who hires brainy William Holden to smarten up his
"dumb broad" so she won't embarrass him in the Washington D.C. crowd he is trying to crash.  As Billie catches on and learns how she is being used there is a
rebellion against Crawford and she eventually leaves him for Holden.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w  / 400-foot-reel digest edition from Columbia Pictures / Ex shape..........$15.

BREEZING ALONG starring Lloyd Hamilton
This is one of Lloyd Hamilton's more entertaining domestic comedies from his peak era of silent film comedy.
Super 8mm / silent / 240-foot-reel edition by Blackhawk Films with historical introduction/ Ex-L.N. shape.............................$30.

BUZZIN' AROUND  Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle plays an inventor of a break-proof varnish for pottery. His drunken nephew mixes up the varnish with home-made cider
and when Fatty ruins the wears in a china shop, the war is on and the cops are on their way!
Super 8mm / silent / 200-foot-reel edition by Ken Films...............................$10.

 

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THE CAKE EATER starring Will Rogers (1924)
Hal Roach produced a series of comedies starring the legendary Will Rogers around 1923. They were tailored to his rural, rustic, down home style and showed off his versatility as well. Joining Will in this comedy are Marie Mosquini, Billy Engle, Grace Woods, Patsy O'Byrne and Al Forbes. It was directed by Jay A. Howe and written by Will Rogers. The comedy opens as a bunch of ranch hands, Will among them, would rather play practical jokes on each other than work. New owners of the ranch arrive in the form of a pair of homely spinsters who, of course, form an immediate attraction to Will who wants no part of them but must tolerate their advances in order to collect back wages for himself and his fellow ranch hands. Also arriving is a young, attractive girl on the ranch who Will is drawn to. The fussy old spinsters make such a pest of themselves that Will feigns illness to avoid them but the idea backfires as they smother him with home remedies. A run-away wagon with Will doing his horseback riding provide a snappy finale!
Regular 8mm / b &  w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape / ..................................$10.
Super 8mm    / b &  w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films / used shape but still quite good......................$10.

THE CANNONBALL  starring Chester Conklin
Mack Sennett produced this Keystone Comedy with Chester Conklin perfectly cast as a nitwitted explosives inspector in a powder factory. The usual bungling and slapstick occurs with Chester carelessly lighting up for a smoke near the powder! Extortionists kidnap the owner's daughter and her boy friend and tie them up. The Keystone Cops are called in and a wild chase and explosive finale climaxes this comedy.
Regular 8mm / b &  w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films / Vg shape - few intermittent projection lines evident/ .......................$10.

CAUGHT IN A CABARET starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand
From Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comes this two-reel comedy short featuring Charlie Chaplin with Mabel Normand as the society girl, Harry McCoy as her boy friend, Alice Davenport as her mother, Chester Conklin as a waiter, Mack Swain as a tough and Minta Durfee as a dancer. Charlie is a lowly waiter who, through a series of events, meets Mabel and passes himself off as a society swell. His double life is exposed when the society group go slumming in the cabaret that Charlie works in and he is exposed as the phony he really is. A brawl ensues and Mabel gets a pie in her face as Charlie gets his come-uppance. "Caught in a Cabaret" was released by Mutual on April 27th, 1914.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / approx. 400' / L.N. shape..........$15.

CAUGHT IN A CABARET
starring  Charlie Chaplin
Regular  8mm / b & w /silent / 200-foot -reel digest edition / Ex shape..............$5.

CALIFORNIA BOUND W. C. Fields
In this digest version from "It's A Gift", Fields is Harold Bissonette (pronounced "Biss-o-nay" if your his pompous wife) who runs a general grocery store but desires settling down to a California orange ranch. He sells his store and takes his family on a trip to California to live on an orange ranch he purchased. Their family adventures include getting thrown off a private estate they mistake for a public camping grounds park. Arriving at their ranch, it is a dilapidated disaster and all seem lost when the millionaire owner of the estate who ejected  them earlier shows up desperately needing the property. The Bissonette family is on easy street!
S-8mm sound / b & w / 200' reel......................$12.

CALIFORNIA BOUND W. C. Fields
In this digest version from "It's A Gift", Fields is Harold Bissonette (pronounced "Biss-o-nay" if your his pompous wife) who runs a general grocery store but desires settling down to a California orange ranch. He sells his store and takes his family on a trip to California to live on an orange ranch he purchased. Their family adventures include getting thrown off a private estate they mistake for a public camping grounds park. Arriving at their ranch, it is a dilapidated disaster and all seem lost when the millionaire owner of the estate who ejected  them earlier shows up desperately needing the property. The Bissonette family is on easy street!
Super 8 silent / b & w / 200' reel.........................$6.

CALIFORNIA OR BUST 
starring Snub Pollard
Regular 8mm / b &  w / silent / complete 2-reeler  / Ex shape.......................$20

CASH AND CARRY
starring  The Three Stooges
Regular  8mm / b & w /silent / 200-foot -reel edition / Ex shape..............$5.

THE CHAMPION starring Charles Chaplin
The Champion was Chaplin's third film in his series for Essanay and was released on March 11, 1915. Also appearing in the cast is Edna Purviance as the girl, Bud Jamison |as the champ, Ben Turpin as the vendor and, in the stands as a fight fan, Broncho Billy Anderson.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk (approx. 400') .........$15.

CIRCUS TODAY
starring Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde
Top notch, golden age Sennett comedy with loads of memorable gags and chases from Mack Sennett's fun factory..
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / approx. 400-feet / L.N. shape.......$15.

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..................$10.

THE COUNT starring Charles Chaplin
The Count is Chaplin's fifth film in the series Produced by Mutual during the 1916-1917 period. It was released on Sept. 4, 1916. Charlie plays the tailor's assistant, Edna Purviance plays Miss Moneybags, Eric Campbell plays the tailor, James T. Kelly is the butler, Leo White is The Count. Albert Austin plays a guest, Charlotte Mineau is the mother and Frank J. Coleman plays a policeman.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / approx. 400-feet / L.N. shape.......$15.

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES SANDWICH
starring Snub Pollard and Jimmy Finlayson
This is a pilgrim parody from the Hal Roach Studios in the early 1920's.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel edition ......L.N. shape .............$15.


CRAZY LIKE A FOX  starring Charley Chase with Oliver Hardy
Here is a classic Charley Chase plot device. He's been engaged since his childhood to a girl he hasn't seem since growing up to adulthood. He meets a girl on a boat and they fall in love but both have this betrothal to deal with. Of course, she's the same girl from their childhood. Charley decides that if he plays it crazy, he can get out of this arranged marriage and the fun begins!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / approx. 400-feet / L.N. shape.......$15.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 2-reels-approximately 400-feet total / Blackhawk print; Ex-L.N. shape .....................$15.






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DON'T BE FOOLISH starring Billy West
By the early 1920's, Billy West abandoned his Chaplin imitations and was seen in several different series of light, and sometimes quite diverting comedies for various independent companies.
Super 8mm / b&w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy from Blackhawk Films / 400-feet / ........L.N. shape.........$20.

DOPEY DICKS
starring  The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe & Shemp)
Super  8mm / b & w /silent / 200-foot -reel edition  from Columbia Films / L.N. print..............$5.

DRY AND THIRSTY starring Billy Bletcher (1920)
During the era of prohibition, many comedies were made about bootlegging and how people tried to evade the authorities. Bathtub gin and home-made beer
were common. Comedies such as this one featuring the little man with the big voice (as he would prove later on in talkies) Billy Bletcher romps through!
Vera Reynolds co-stars with Billy.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 1-reel-approximately 200-feet / Blackhawk print; Ex-L.N. shape .....................$10.

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FARO NELL starring Louise Fazenda
An early talkie, this is a parody of what an old fashioned mello-drama from 1909 would have been like. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Fazenda and the rest of the cast go way over the top in this one!
Super 8mm Sound / b & w /  / complete two-reeler - approximately 400-feet ............................$15.

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..............$15.

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.

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.

THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER starring W. C. Fields
In this farce comedy lampoon of the old Yukon melodramas, some of the material in this film has it's roots in "The Drunkard" which Fields would explore in "The Old Fashioned Way" Here, Fields pokes fun at the story of his son who drank the "fatal glass of beer", went to jail and then returns to his home when released. Some of the gags are on the film itself, such as the sled-dog scene. "Mush! Mush!" Fields yells as he travels home then mutters "tastes like corn flakes to me" under his breath. One of his most off-beat comedies.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reeler / Like new shape..................................$10.

FLIVVERING starring Victor Moore
This complete one-reel comedy stars Broadway star Victor Moore as a family man who buys his first automobile. Of course, he has both family problems as well as
mechanical problems that make for a funny look at the early days of motoring circa 1917.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape............................$8
 

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THE GREAT McGONIGLE  W. C. Fields in digest of "Old Fashioned Way" plays Eustice McGonigle who arrives among much fanfare in a local town only to
realize it is for another prominent citizen. This film contains his classic juggling act.
Super 8mm / b & w / 200-foot reel  silent edition from Universal 8 / item # 339......................................$8.

GRIPS, GRUNTS AND GROANS 
starring  The Three Stooges
Regular  8mm / b & w /silent / 200-foot -reel edition / Good shape but no titles.................$4

GYMNASIUM JIM (c 1926) starring Billy Bevan
One of the classic Mack Sennett era comedies starts out with a "fixed" boxing match. There are some great training routine gags evident. Then the match is a free-for-all with Kewpie Morgan running off with the stakes and a classic Keystone chase ensues!
Regular 8mm  / b&w / 200-foot-reel edition ...Ex. shape...........$8.

A HASH HOUSE FRAUD starring Louise Fazenda in a Mack Sennett slapstick comedy
Also featuring Hugh Fay, Fritz Schade and Chester Conklin and the Keystone Cops
Business is slow at the "Busy Bee Beanery" where Louise works. No customers, no wages! A scheme is hatched to sell the restaurant to a buyer by offering free
meals to fill the place up! The buyer is so impressed he buys it on the spot but when he tries to collect from the "customers" who were the shills, all hell breaks
loose! The Keystone Cops are called in but the seller flees the scene and the wild chase is on!
Super 8mm  / b & w / 200-foot-reel silent edition from  Blackhawk Films / used shape; few lines otherwise VG................$6.

HEARTS AND DIAMONDS starring John Bunny & Flora Finch
America's first great comedy star was the colorful, rotund John Bunny who, with skinny spinsterish Flora Finch as his wife were popular world-wide. This baseball
comedy has the added attraction of Christy Mathewson himself appearing as a baseball player on Bunny's team.
Regular 8mm / b & w / complete 2-reel comedy 400-foot-reel release / Ex-L.N.shape...............................................$15.

HERBIE THE LOVE BUG -
adapted from the Walt Disney productions comedy "The Love Bug". See Herbie, the car with a mind of it's own, race to victory despite the efforts of Mr. Thorndyke
to win the race using extraordinary tactics.
Super 8mm Sound / Color / 200-foot-reel edition / original box / L.N. shape....................................$10.

HERBIE THE LOVE BUG # 53 - starring Ken Beery and Stephanie Powers. See Herbie's exciting capers in this episode from Walt Disney's "Herbie Rides Again". He's
the same ol' Love Bug but is full of new tricks involving Helen Hayes, Ken Beery and Stephanie Powers.
Super 8mm / Sound / Color / 200-foot reel edition....L.N. shape..............................................$10.


HER FIRST FLAME starring Gale Henry
also featuring Milburn Moranti and Hap H. Ward / directed by Bruno J. Becker and edited by Richard Currier
This is a "futuristic" comedy from 1920 which projects to the year 1950 where the occupation of the sexes would be reversed (they weren't off by much, were they?). The women earn the income while the men take care of the off-springs. Female Cops stop weeping men drivers (not about A.A.R.P. either!). Gale runs for fire chief against rival Phyllis Allen. Gale assumes a variety of disguises  to vote Chicago-style (early and often) and gets elected. Loads of fun with the all girl fire department.
Gale Henry is one of the more obscure female comediennes whose eccentric style was shown to advantage in a series of two reel comedies in the early 1920's. An opera singer and musical comedy star, Gale came to the movies in 1913 and for several years cavorted in and out of both Universal Joker and Powers Comedies with the proficiency of a natural comedienne. In 1918, she left Universal and organized her Model Comedy Company the following year. Gale Henry would eventually recede into character parts by the time of the talkies in the thirties and can be seen in some Hal Roach comedies of that era.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / released by Blackhawk Films / approx 400' on 2reels....Ex shape, very minor wear............$20.

HIDE AND SHRIEK  
Super 8mm Sound  / b & w / complete 1-reeler from Blackhawk / L.N shape.............................$12.

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.

HIS OFF DAY starring Phil Dunham (1926)
Situation comedy, or "sit-coms" as it's called currently began in the early days of the cinema but audiences roared at broad slapstick until the early to mid-twenties. Some of the silent screen's best-loved practitioners of the comic art of "sit-coms" were John Bunny and Sidney Drew. They extracted laughs from situations rather than physical violence. Entire comic empires like that of Al Christie revolved around situation comedy with only moderate amounts of slapstick and chase. Although virtually unknown today, Phil Dunham reigned as Cameo's top fun maker during 1925-1928. An English comic, Dunham's screen career began in the dawn of the motion picture history with Kalem and continued until the silent screen ended with the advent of talkies.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete comedy release by Blackhawk Films / 200-feet / L.N. shape / ............$20.

HOLY MACKEREL    starring  Jimmy Adams and Billy Engle
Jimmy and his wife receive notice from their rich uncle he is sending tem some things he can't take with him on a trip. They expect some automobiles but what arrives are a bunch on animal including seals and an elephant. Trying to keep them from the landlord creates some wild situations. At the end, of course, the Uncle shows up with the cars and says the animals were mistakenly delivered and supposed to go to the local zoo
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / comedy release / 200-foot -reel edition/ missing last few seconds and has end title added, otherwise VG.......................$5.

THE HOLLYWOOD KID starring  Charlie Murray, Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent & Mack Sennett
The zany days of Mack Sennett's fun factory is captured in this self-parody of Sennett's studio. Appearing as himself, Mack calmly acts as ringmaster to hyperactive gag men, writers , bathing beauties and comedians. A lion hops up on Mack's desk and he calmly orders it out of his office as though it were a dog or cat! Finding a child actor for their next film with a competing studio spy is part of the plot of this fast-paced comedy from Sennett's golden age. Naturally, there's a wild car chase thrown in!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / comedy release by Blackhawk Films / 200-feet / .......................$10.

HONEST HORACE starring Billy Bevan in a Mack Sennett slapstick comedy from the roaring 20's.
Regular 8mm / b & w / 200-foot-reel silent edition from  associated artists productions.........L.N. shape original box art.........$6.

HONEST HORACE starring Billy Bevan in a Mack Sennett slapstick comedy from the roaring 20's.
Super 8mm  / b & w / 200-foot-reel silent edition from  associated artists productions.........L.N. shape original box art.........$6.

HOLIDAY
starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn
Super 8mm Sound  / b & w / 400-foot-reel digest edition from  Columbia Pictures......................$15

HOT SPORTS
starring Monty Collins and Vernon Dent
This Jack White Comedy has Monty and Vernon crashing a society party and anticipates some of those situations that The Three Stooges would be doing about seven or eight years down the line.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete comedy release by Blackhawk Films / 200-feet / Ex-L.N. shape very minimal wear ............$15 SOLD pending payment

HUSTLIN' HANK starring Will Rogers (1923)
Will Rogers stars in this Hal Roach comedy. Cast in a rural setting, Rogers combines his comic pantomime skills with his likable personality. Much of the humor of Will Rogers came from his comments (via inter-titles ) on the human situation. It is directed by Perc Pembroke and features Marie Mosquini, Billy Engle, Noah Young, Eddie
Baker and Vera White.
Regular 8mm / b & w / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk / L.N. shape.........................$10.

THE IMMIGRANT
starring Charles Chaplin
The Immigrant was Chaplin's eleventh film in his series of twelve for Mutual. It is recorded that 90,000-feet of film were used to edit the film down to it's 2-reel length It was released by Mutual on June 17, 1917
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete comedy release by Blackhawk/ ..........L.N. shape...............$10.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete comedy release by Blackhawk/ ..........L.N. shape...........$10.




J - K - L





 

JOIN THE CIRCUS starring Snub Pollard & Paul Parrott (1923)
Some lively sight gags occur in this comedy. Snub proposes to his landlady and she accepts so he decides to hang himself with the help of a dog pulling the rope. After several failed attempts, he winds up joining a circus as a stunt rider on horse back. He can break his neck that way!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reeler from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape ....................$10.

A KEYSTONE COUPLET - 1913
featuring Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett
This one has 2 short films "Peeping Pete" and "A Bandit". Screen comedy has slowed down considerably since June 23, 1913, when Keystone released "A Bandit" and "A Peeping Pete" as a single unit but they perfectly illustrate elements considered typical of comedy's formative age and representative of a format which would soon be replaced by full one-reel comedies.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Blackhawk release .............$12.

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...............$15.

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.........$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.

LOVE AT FIRST BITE starring George Hamilton and Susan Saint James in a comedy spoof of the Dracula legend. Evicted from his Transylvanian castle, the love-hungry Count decides he's had enough "one bite stands". He and his crazy, bug-swallowing servant (played by Arte Johnson) head for New York where the Count can woo his dream girl.
Super 8mm / Sound / Color 400-foot-reel digest edition / original clamshell box / .....................$15.

M - N - O




MABEL'S MARRIED LIFE - starring Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel comedy release by Blackhawk with historical introduction/ LN shape  .........$10.
Regular 8mm / b & w /silent 200-foot-reel comedy release by Blackhawk with historical introduction / L.N. shape ......$10.

MACK SENNETT'S GREATEST HITS - starring Billy Bevan and Ben Turpin in a compilation of great scenes from Sennett comedies. "A Small Town Idol", "Good Old Corn" and "Happy Times and Jolly Moments" are the three Warners compilations that comprise this great reel of slapstick gags and chases. The original planes, trains and automobiles! Also the Keystone cops in a fast-paced highlights reel from Warner Brothers. Also Monty Banks, Eddie Gribbon,  James Finlayson, Kewpie Morgan.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition / great box art! ...........................................$10.

MAN FROM THE DINERS’ CLUB
Danny Kaye and Telly Savalas /
S-8mm sound / 1-reeler / L.N. shape.........$10.

MICKEY THE DETECTIVE
Mickey Rooney as Mickey McGuire -
Regular 8mm / B & w / silent / 2 reels / approx 400 feet........................$10.

MICKEY'S RIVAL
Mickey Rooney as Mickey McGuire -
Regular 8mm / B & w / silent / 2 reels FILM CLASSIC EXCHANGE approx 400 feet........$10.

MONKEY BUSINESS
starring The Marx Brothers
This is a Castle Films digest of the feature of the same name.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / / 200-foot-reel edition from Castle Films./ no opening titles.....................$5.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / / 400-foot-reel edition from Universal 8 / ..........................................$15.

THE MUSICAL MARVEL (1917)
starring Ben Turpin
Ben is a one-man band playing piano, percussion and sound effects in an old Western Music Hall theater where he creates quite a bit of trouble.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 400-foot reel edition from Blackhawk / opening titles missing but otherwise complete........$12.

NIFTY NUMBERS starring Neil Burns
Francis Lee, Billy Engle and Neil Burns star in the lively show-biz comedy. Some ladies under-garment designers need models to sell their skimpy products so they make a deal with some show girls to model them at a party at the hotel. They engaged in a game of strip poker with the buyer as a novel way of showing him the under garments. But a crowd of voyeurs watching the stripping going on create a riot in the hotel and the group is forced to flee the police!
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / music added  / 200-foot-reel edition from probably Thunderbird Films ....................................$10.

NO BULLS, PLEASE
Abbott and Costello in one of those cleverly-titled Castle Films digests from their feature "MEXICAN HAYRIDE". Bud and Lou are on the lam from the authorities
and hide out at a bull fight. Lou winds up in the ring with the angry bull for some funny sight gags.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / / 200-foot-reel edition from Universal 8.............................................$15.

NO INDIANS, PLEASE
Abbott and Costello in another cleverly-titled Castle Films digest from their feature "Ride 'em Cowboy". When Lou breaks an old Indian law, he is forced to marry the
chief's ugly daughter. In an attempt to escape in an old car, Bud and Lou are pursued by a tribe of angry redskins in a wild Sennett-style chase that ends with Lou having nightmares about Indians!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition .............................................$5.

ORANGES AND LEMONS starring Stan Laurel
The fruit-pickers Union will definitely not approve of Stan's tactics in "ORANGES AND LEMONS" with George Rowe and Eddie Baker suffering at the hyperactive antics of Stan Laurel! The one-reel format did not allow for much character development or plot devices. You had to grab your audience with a situation and make them laugh quickly. Stan Laurel's irreverent, aggressive style anticipates the hyperactive antics of some of the wildest cartoon characters of the later decades like Screwy Squirrel and Bugs Bunny. 
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel complete 1-reeler from Blackhawk films.............$10.

ONCE OVER LIGHTLY
Old time Mack Sennett-Keystone Cops era slapstick highlight reel.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 50-foot-reel "headliner"  from Ken films.............$3.

ONE TOO MANY
starring Oliver Hardy
with Billy Ruge and Billy Bletcher
Here's a rare early Vim Comedy from 1915 with Oliver Hardy in a starring role as a man who must find a wife and baby to claim an inheritance. This plot line would be re-used by Laurel and Hardy in 1929 in the classic comedy "That's My Wife".
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel complete comedy from Blackhawk.............$20.

OUR DAREDEVIL CHIEF starring Ford Sterling
The mayor's wife keeps a picture of the chief but her husband quickly destroys it in a fit of jealousy. A group of crooks threaten the mayor but the chief dismisses it
as nothing. Helping the mayor's wife home with her packages, he indulges in a drink. The crooks enter the house and lock the chief and the mayor's wife in the closet while they rob the place. A package bomb is left for the mayor but the chief signs a gift card, thinking he's giving a gift to the mayor! The mayor opens the package early and discover the lit bomb and throws it at the chief and the bomb gets tossed back and forth until it explodes! The mayor threatens the chief "recover my valuable or I'll jail you!" A wild finale ensues as the chief attempts to retrieve the goods from the crooks. Mack Sennett produced this Keystone comedy during the period when this series was being distributed by Mutual in 1915. It stars Ford Sterling in his role of the chief of the Keystone Cops. Al St. John, who was a member if this stellar aggregation at the peak of its popularity, this time is part of the conspirators. "Our Daredevil Chief" is one of Keystones more ambitious efforts from the years when most of Sennett's output was just one reel in length, and when some of  it was even of the split-reel variety.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent edition / Blackhawk Films release / approximately 400' / VG. shape / few minor lines otherwise top notch.....................$15.

P - Q - R

PALEFACE starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Henry Brandon in a digest of the classic Western comedy. This episode features Bob's "escape" from the Indians and
his "rescue" of Jane.
Super 8mm / b & w /silent / 200' reel edition ..........$6.

DR. PAINLESS (episode from PALEFACE) Bob Hope is a "painless" dentist who becomes involved with Jane Russell when bad men try to kill her and they make their escape.
S-8mm Sound / 200-foot-reel edition ...............$15.

PARDON MY BERTH MARKS starring Buster Keaton
Buster is a reporter for a newspaper that is trying to get a news story about an elusive gangster and his wife who is leaving him for a Reno divorce. Buster catches up with them on a train heading West and encounters some wild adventures on board the train when the jealous gangster goes after Buster!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot-reel edition from Columbia Films.. item # 515.................$6.

THE PAWNSHOP starring Charlie Chaplin
In this, his sixth film for Mutual, The Pawnshop ranks high among the series both in popularity and content. It was released  October 2, 1916, Also in the cast are Edna Purviance as the pawnbroker's daughter, John Rand as the clerk, Henry Bergman as the pawnbroker, Albert Austin as a customer, Eric Campbell as the thief and James T. Kelly as a Shakespearean actor.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy from Blackhawk / approx 400' / L.N. shape...............$10.

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

THE PLUMBER  (1914)
starring Charley Murray
Mack Sennett produced this Keystone comedy starring versatile comedian Charlie Murray as the most inept plumber you ever saw. Just put any comedian
 together with some leaky pipes and you can figure on disaster! This is no exception!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete one reeler (approx 200') from Blackhawk / main title gone but complete otherwise...................$8.

POLICE starring Charles Chaplin
This is one of the Essanay Film Company releases from the 1915-16 period starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent complete 2-reel film release by Blackhawk Films / approximately 400-feet total / LN shape.........$10.

RAGGETY ROSE starring Mabel Normand
This is a one reel digest of the original Hal Roach comedy from 1926 directed by Stan Laurel and featuring Mabel Normand in one of her "Cinderella" rags-to-riches
comedies also featuring James Finlayson.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / approx 200' / .......................$8.

RAILROAD STOWAWAYS - starring Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde in a Castle Films adaptation from the Mack Sennett 1926 comedy "Whispering Whiskers". Andy
and Billy are two tramps who first attempt to travel in style by train only to be caught and put to work in the kitchen by the conductor. Lots of fun sight gags as they
try and catch a fresh fish or fry some eggs!
regular 8mm / silent / 200-foot-reel edition.....L.N. shape..........item # 67.................$8.

ROWDY ANN - starring Fay Tincher
One of the pioneer comedy producers, Al Christie, began his career with Nestor in 1909. In 1916, Christie left Nestor to form his own company. By 1919 Christie
decided to expand from 1-reelers to 2-reelers giving the leading role to Fay Tincher.
Regular 8mm / silent / 400-foot-reel complete comedy release by Blackhawk with historical introduction/ Ex-LN shape.................$15.


S - T - U





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.

SHOULD SAILORS MARRY?
starring Clyde Cook with Oliver Hardy
During Hal Roach's no stars period, he attempted to create successful series starring various comedians such as Paul Parrott, Jimmie Finlayson, Gaylord Lloyd and here, Clyde Cook. He didn't realize that within this midst were Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy who would soon be teamed. Clyde Cook was an excellent vaudeville acrobatic comic who made a pleasant but undistinguished series of comedies for Roach before becoming a serious character actor in feature films.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 400-foot-reel  complete 2-reeler ..............Ex shape.................$20.

SHERLOCK HOLMES SMARTER BROTHER starring  Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman
Join sleuth Gene Wilder and his nutty bug-eyed sidekick Marty Feldman as they rush to the rescue of a madcap damsel in distress played by the deliciously daffy
Madeline Kahn. Dom De Luise is the villainous Eduardo Gambetti.  Leo McKern is the notorious Professor Moriarty. Written and Directed by Gene Wilder, he
blends slapstick with farce and adds his own brand of lunacy that reminds us of previous classics such as "Young Frankenstein" and "The Producers".
Super 8mm Sound / Color /  approximately 400-feet  / approx. 20 minutes / Ex shape/..............$10.

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.................$15.

SLAPSTICK starring  Charlie Murray, Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy,
Al. St. John, Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, Vernon Dent, The Keystone Cops, Monty Banks and Will Rogers.
This compilation by Killiam Shows was adapted by Blackhawk Films with all the great stars and comedy
highlights from the golden age of silent era slapstick.
Super 8mm / b&w / silent /   approximately 600-feet complete film from Blackhawk / approx. 30 minutes / Ex-L.N. shape................$15

SOLDIER MAN starring Harry Langdon
This is the complete, 3-reel 1926 comedy produced at the Mack Sennett Studios features Harry Langdon in an army comedy adventure. Many edited versions
circulate but this Blackhawk Films release is the complete featurette directed by Harry Edwards and co-written by Frank Capra and Arthur Ripley.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / complete 3-reel featurette by Blackhawk ...L.N. shape..........$20.

THE SPARRING PARTNER (1915) starring Charles Chaplin
This Official Films release is adapted from the Essanay comedy titled "The Champion" which Chaplin made in 1915 during his second year of making slapstick
comedies. Unlike some of the other home movie companies, this edition from Official Films is well edited and from good pre-print materials.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 1-reel comedy from Official Films/ approx 200' / L.N. shape...............$8.

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..........$10.
Super 8mm   / b & w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films.....L.N. shape..........$10.

SPOOKS starring The Three Stooges (in 3-D)
Larry, Moe and Shemp are trapped in an old mansion occupied by a mad scientist and a gorilla which naturally chases them through the house and laboratory.
Many of the gags employed were staged for full use of the 3-D effect such as things thrown at the camera to give the full effect.
Regular 8mm /Color stock 3-D / silent / release by Columbia /  appox. 75 feet..............Ex shape..........$20.

THE STAR BOARDER starring Charlie Chaplin
This was Chaplin's ninth comedy for Keystone and made while he was still being directed by others. George Nichols directed this particular one. Charlie is the
landlady's pet. The other boarders are not even mentioned. Charlie flirts with his landlady and invites her for tennis after breakfast. The landlady's husband always
kept his place--under his wife's thumb! He takes her out for a morning walk after breakfast. At the tennis court, Charlie hit everything but the ball. Off they go for some hanky panky but a little boy with a camera snaps some incriminating shots of  Charlie and the landlady. When he shows them that evening at a slide lantern show the enraged husband finally blows his stack and takes it out on Charlie while the wife takes it out on the kid!
Super 8mm / b& w / silent / 200-foot reel edition from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape............$15

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
Buster Keaton stars in what many consider to be among his top two or three comedy features. You all know the story and the great, spectacular gags in this film. The print is a Blackhawk release with a music score.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete feature release by Blackhawk............................................$55.

THE STOWAWAYS
starring The Marx Brothers
Super 8mm Sound  / b& w / silent / 200-foot reel edition from Castle Films / L.N. shape............$10

STUCK IN THE STICKS starring Andy Clyde
Andy stars in this one reel digest by Columbia of the 2-reel comedy.
Regular 8mm / silent / release by Columbia /  appox. 175 feet......................$8.


TAKE BUS PAY LATER starring Abbott & Costello
Bud and Lou, in another of those cleverly titled digests from the creative minds of Castle Films, play a couple of Chicago bus drivers who take off on a cross-country
 trip to Los Angeles with a notorious playboy and a group of girls. Their boss, Charles Lane, doesn't want publicity so instead of the police, he hires private detective William Demerest to find them. At a gas stop, they are noticed by a newspaper man. When the private detective catches up with them, they hide out in a theater disguised a magicians. The chase continues on with the bus eventually winding up in the ocean!
Super 8mm / b & w /silent / 200' reel edition from Castle Films........used shape but runs smooth..................$6.

THIS IS WAR?  (DUCK SOUP)  (1933)
starring The Marx Brothers
directed by Leo McCarey
This is Castle Films digest of the classic 1933 Marx Brothers feature "Duck Soup".
Super 8mm / Sound / B & W / 200-foot-reel digest edition from Castle Films / original box /short title otherwise complete...................$10.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1974) directed by Richard Lester starring Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Fay Dunaway, Charlton
Heston, Geraldine Chaplin. Lively send-up of the Dumas classic mixing swashbuckling adventure and slapstick!
Super 8mm / Sound / Color / 200-foot-reel digest edition from Ken Films / original box / L.N. ......................................................................$10.

TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE starring Marie Dressler
Mack Sennett produced and directed this, the first American feature-length comedy. It has remained a popular comedy throughout the years since it's initial release
and subsequent reissues. Adapted in general terms from Marie Dressler's stage hit "Tillie's Nightmare", it was a farcical parody of the city slicker vs. the country-girl theme that was popular in turn-of-the-century melodramas. Virtually every Keystone player on the lot made an appearance in this film including Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin. This is a stunning, sharp print that Blackhawk mad from a close to original source negative.
Super 8mm & Regular 8mm combo/ b & w / silent / complete feature from Blackhawk Films 1st half is S-8mm second half is reg 8mm / L.N. shape /...........................$10.

TWENTIETH CENTURY (c1936)
starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard
Super 8mm / Sound / 400-foot-reel digest edition from Columbia Pictures/ original box / L.N. ....................$20.

T'WAS HENRY'S FAULT (An Antique Automobile Comedy)
starring Harry Depp and Eleanor Field
The "Henry" to which this title refers to is Henry Ford. He invented the auto so all the problems with flivvers became his fault. This domestic comedy about a
young couple who buy their first car has many gags in it! Probaly made around 1916.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete film released by Blackhawk with historical introductions / Ex. shape / .........$10.

A TWO-CYLINDER COURTSHIP starring Billie Rhodes
Another of the popular Billie Rhodes-Jay Belasco comedies from Al Christie, this time Billie is a Tom-boy who helps Jay repair his automobile. Naturally, Billie's
father objects to her engagement to Billie and they proceed to elope. But they need two witnesses for their marriage. Their elaborate scheme turns her father and
 the sheriff into those witnesses!
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / complete film released by Blackhawk with historical introductions / L.N. shape / .........$10.

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.

UNDER A SPELL  (c1925)
starring Alice Howell
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete one reeler (approx 200') from Blackhawk / main title gone but complete otherwise...................$8.

 

V - W - X - Y - Z





THE VAGABOND starring Charlie Chaplin
The Vagabond was released to theaters July 10, 1916 and was the third of Chaplin's twelve-film Mutual series. It is more drama, less outright comedy than any earlier
Chaplin film. Also appearing in the film is Edna Purviance as the gypsy girl,, Eric Campbell as the gypsy chief, and Charlotte Mineau as the gypsy mother. Charlie
plays a saloon violin player who befriends a gypsy girl.
Super 8mm / b&w / silent / 400-foot reel complete film from Blackhawk / Ex-L.N. shape................$10.

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................$20.

WANDERING PAPAS (1925) Clyde Cook and Oliver Hardy in a comedy directed by Stan Laurel
Clyde Cook is a lumber camp cook who gets involved with a girl, her jealous father and some angry loggers. The run-away train finale provides a literal cliff-hanger
of a climax as they hang from the edge!
Super 8mm / b&w / silent / 400-foot reel complete film from Blackhawk / ...............$15.

WHAT INDIANS? starring Dean Martin
This one reel digest is from "Texas Across the River" which starred Dean Martin in this irreverent Western spoof of cowboys and Indians (Joey Bishop is a Yiddish-speaking Indian!) Also in the cast  Alain Delon.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / 200-foot-reel edition from Castle Films..................$15.

WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT?
starring Jerry Lewis
The richest man in the world is drafted during World War 2 and his patriotism is soon turned to disappointment when he and his friends are all declared 4-F.
He decides to create his own personal guerilla army. A look-alike for a German General, Lewis and his group decide to try and kidnap the General while he takes his
place and orders a retreat of the German Army.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / 200-foot reel digest edition / used shape but runs smooth/ no box.................$5.

WHO'S ON FIRST? featuring Abbott and Costello
This is a Castle Films abridged version of the routine from Abbott and Costello's feature-length film "The Naughty Nineties".
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / approximately 100-feet / Excellent shape but no original box........$8.

WORK starring Charles Chaplin
Chaplin's eighth film made in the series from Essanay was filmed at the Bradbury mansion studio at 147 North Hill Street in Los Angeles. The studio exterior is briefly
visible in scenes bear the beginning and end of the film. With Chaplin in "Work" are Billy Armstrong and Marta Golden as the husband and wife, Edna Purviance as
the maid, Charles Insley as the boss, and Leo White and Paddy McGuire. The film was released on June 21, 1915.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel comedy on a 400-foot reel by Blackhawk Films......good shape, few early splices then ok.........$10.

WOULD BE HERO starring Charles Chaplin
This is a toy film extract from Chaplin's Essanay comedy "The Bank". Charlie is a watchman at a bank who thwarts a robbery, captures the crooks and rescues Edna
who is a hostage.
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / 50-foot edition from Exclusive movies / ............$3.

YOU’RE IN THE ARMY NOW - Jimmy Durante & Phil Silvers in an Army comedy/ S-8 mm / b & w /silent 1-r .....$5.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU starring James Stewert, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore
A Columbia Pictures 20-minute digest of the Frank Capra feature-length comedy.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w /  400-foot reel by Columbia Pictures.............$15.

YUKON JAKE starring Ben Turpin
Mack Sennett produced this old time mello-drama spoof starring cross-eyed comic Ben Turpin. It remains one of his best remembered comedies from the peak of his popularity.
Regular 8mm / b&w / silent / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films (approx 400-feet total)/ LN shape.........$10.

BE BIG (1930)
One of their most underrated comedies, it is a hilarious character study in mounting frustration. The boys are taking their wives on a weekend trip to Atlantic City but find out at the last minute a testimonial is being held in their honor by their lodge so they must fake an illness and pack the wives off ahead claiming they will join them the next day when feeling better. The plans works until the wives miss the train and return home unexpectedly. During all this time Hardy gets Laurel's tight-fitting boot stuck on his foot by mistake and here is where the film's pace and frustrating build-up of comic frustration gets sillier and wilder as every method of extracting the boot is employed to no avail. The gags get faster paced as the mounting frustration builds until the wives enter the scene for an explosive finale! Perhaps unfairly compared to their feature length classic, "Sons of the Desert" a few years later, this short comedy stand well alone on re-examination.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reeler version by Blackhawk Films / L.N. ...............................................................$30.SOLD PENDING PAYMENT

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! Next 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.

THE BIG NOISE
starring Laurel & Hardy
with Jack Norton
This 200-foot reel digest is the "berth marks" remake sequence where the boys try to get comfortable in the upper berth of their train when drunk Jack Norton staggers in and attempts get some room to sleep as well. Naturally, as soon as they get comfortable, their destination is called on by the conductor and they must leave in a hurry! Americom Films
Regular 8mm / b & w / silent / Ex..............................$8.

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).................$45.

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.

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.
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete 3-reeler version by Blackhawk Films /approx 600' /  L.N. ....................................................$30.SOLD PENDING PAYMENT

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 ............$10Sold, pending payment.
16mm Sound / b & w /  800-foot edition  / Ex dupe or reduction / Film Classics titles............$90.

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.

EARLY TO BED (1928) complete 2-reeler
Ollie inherits a fortune and hires Stanley as his butler only to play so many practical jokes on him that Stan loses his temper and quits. Ollie won't let him resign though and continues to antagonize Stanley. In a rare change of personality, Stanley turns on Ollie and goes on a rampage of destruction! Ollie soon becomes the next object to Stan's revenge and must hide from him by masquerading as part of a water fountain statue. All is patched up between them at the end however.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent complete 400-foot Blackhawk release........Ex -L.N. shape.............$15.

HABEAS CORPUS (1928) complete 2-reeler
Laurel & Hardy are hired by a mad scientist to steal a body from a grave yard. Only the police are on to the scheme and send a detective out  to spoil their plans. But Stan and Ollie have difficulties just getting into the grave yard without making a racket or spoiling the plans! Once inside, they are accosted by un-seen grave holes, bats and the detective dressed as a ghost to scare them off!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent complete 400-foot Blackhawk release........Ex -L.N. shape.............$15Sold pending payment.

HELPMATES(1931)
The morning after a wild party, Ollie asks Stan to help him clean up the mess before Ollie's "charming" wife returns from an out of town trip. Hilarious disasters occur with Stan's "helping" proving Murphy's law is also Laurel & Hardy's Law as well!
Super 8mm Sound / b & w / complete version by Blackhawk Films / 2-r  ...............................................................$20.
16mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk Films  /gorgeous early 70's print...... (J.D.)....................$120.

HOOSEGOW (1929) silent adaptation version
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.

LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING (1928)
Stan has a tooth ache and Ollie must try to pull it out or else they both loose a night's sleep. After some unsuccessful attempts Ollie takes Stan to the dentist office. Naturally nervous, Stan is consoled by Ollie who sits in the dentist's chair to show him how easy it is. The dentist gets confused and pulls Ollie tooth. Laughing gas is used and the boys leave the office hysterical with laughter and cause a major traffic jam for cop Edgar Kennedy!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films /  approximately 400-feet.....L.N. shape.......$15.

LIBERTY (1929)
They escape from prison and change into civilian clothes in a cramped auto but, in the process, get the wrong pants on. They try several times to exchange their pants only to get caught by curious onlookers! Hiding in an elevator shaft, it takes off for the top of a sky-scraper under construction 20 stories in the air! Once on top they try to get down as safely as possible but certain hazards cause them many a scary moment! They can't seem to find any stable place to rest but they finally manage to get down safely!
Super 8mm / b & w / silent / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films /  approximately 400-feet.....L.N. shape.......$15.


THE LIVE GHOST (1934)
Fishing on their day off from the fish processing factory, the boys are recruited to shanghai men for Walter Long's
ship, reputedly haunted by ghosts. When a drunken shipmate falls into a vat of white wash, he scare the entire crew into believing in ghosts!
Super 8mm Sound / b & w  / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films /  approximately 400-feet.....L.N. shape.......$20.
16mm Sound / b&w / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films / approximately 800 feet / .......... ...................$120.

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. 
Super 8mm Sound / b & w  / complete 3-reel edition by Blackhawk Films /  approximately 600-feet.....L.N. shape.......$30.
Super 8mm / b & w / silent adaptation  by Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape..............$10.
16mm / Sound  / b & w / 3-reeler (appox. 1,200') like new Blackhawk print....................$125.

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

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.

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) complete sound edition
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.
16mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films /  L. N. shape........................$120.

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........$15.

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For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on...
 
If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch,

"Who's on first?" might have turned out something like this:


  COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT

  ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

  COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking  about buying a computer.

  ABBOTT: Mac?

  COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.

  ABBOTT: Your computer?

  COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.

  ABBOTT: Mac?

  COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.

  ABBOTT: What about Windows?

  COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

  ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?

  COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see  when I look! at the windows?

  ABBOTT: Wallpaper.

  COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.

  ABBOTT: Software for Windows?

  COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write  proposals,
   track expenses and run my business.
   What do you have?

  ABBOTT: Office.

  COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

  ABBOTT: I just did.

  COSTELLO: You just did what?

  ABBOTT: Recommend something.

  COSTELLO: You recommended something?

  ABBOTT: Yes.

  COSTELLO: For my office?

  ABBOTT: Yes.

  COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?

  ABBOTT: Office.

  COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!

  ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.

  COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say
   I'm sitting! at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?

  ABBOTT: Word.

  COSTELLO: What word?

  ABBOTT: Word in Office.

  COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.

  ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.

  COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?

  ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".

  COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't start with some  straight answers. OK, forget that.
    Can I watch  movies on the internet? 

  ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.

  COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need!

  ABBOTT: Real One.

  COSTELLO: If it's a long movie, I also want to watch reels 2, 3 and 4. Can I watch them?

  ABBOTT: Of course.

  COSTELLO: Great! With what?

  ABBOTT: Real One.

  COSTELLO: OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do?

  ABBOTT: You click the blue "1".

  COSTELLO: I click the blue one what?

  ABBOTT: The blue "1".

  COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w?

  ABBOTT: The blue "1" is Real One and the blue "W" is Word.

  COSTELLO: What word?

  ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.

COSTELLO: But there are three words in "office for windows"!

ABBOTT: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in the world.

COSTELLO: It is?

ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other words out there.

COSTELLO: And that word is real one?

ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn't  even part of Office.

COSTELLO: STOP! Don't start that again. What about financial bookkeeping? You have  anything I can track my money      with?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?

ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.

COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?

ABBOTT: Money.

COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?

ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.

COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with computer? How much?

ABBOTT: One copy.

COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?

ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.

COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?

ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT! (A few days later)

ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?

COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?

ABBOTT: Click on "START"...

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