"You Never Dreamed a Film Could Be So Funny" 29 March 1960 Drama, Comedy, Factual 81 mins
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
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Roscoe Arbuckle as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Wallace Beery as edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin as edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage)
Charley Chase as edited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage)
Buster Keaton as edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
Edgar Kennedy as edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
Harry Langdon as edited from 'The First 100 Years'
Stan Laurel as edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy as edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Mabel Normand as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Gloria Swanson as edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
Ben Turpin as edited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)
United States 29 March 1960
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Second in the series of theatrical pastiches assembled by producer and film buff Robert Youngson that popularized forgotten giants of silent cinema. Moviegoers ...
Transferred from 16mm.
Rescued from an old VHS of "Tom Corbett: Space Cadet".
A 1959 Film Shows a compilation of sequences from old silent comedies from the early Sennett films of 1914 to the Roach comedies of 1928 featuring Charlie ...
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