Her Boy Friend (1924, silent)
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Description: Silent film comedy.
Content warning: This film opens with an intertitle that contains an offensive and outdated expression derived from a racial slur for Roma people.
"Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dragopem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his somewhat bumbling son to rescue her." (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248078/, accessed 5/24/23)
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit http://www.prelinger.com.
Subjects: Law enforcement; Gender roles
Tags: silent film; comedy; intertitles; racism; gangsters; police; racist language; nightclubs; female detectives; women in police work; kidnapping; fist fights; violence against women; dockworkers; people of African origin or descent; trick photography; Black people swimming; stop motion; hat-check girls; gag shot of two men kissing by accident; smoking; marijuana (?); stunts; stuntwomen; shipping; tall ships; rigging
Film Sponsor:
Creator: Larry Semon, Noel M. Smith, Chadwick Pictures Corp.
Credits: E. W. Hammons presents Larry Semon in "Her Boy Friend"
A Larry Semon special comedy produced by Chadwick Pictures Corp.
The Players: Dorothy Dwan, Alma Bennett, Oliver N. Hardy, Fred Spence, Frank Alexander, Bill Hauber, Larry Semon.
Distributor: Educational Film Exchanges
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Mogull Bros.
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1924
Geographical Location: USA
Genre/Form: fiction, short, silent
Language:
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: positive
Color: color
Color Process: tinted
Sound or Silent: silent
Film Soundtrack Type: mos
Edge Code: plus circle, circle circle circle
Frame Rate: 16 fps
Length (feet): 352
Complete catalog record
Content warning: This film opens with an intertitle that contains an offensive and outdated expression derived from a racial slur for Roma people.
"Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dragopem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his somewhat bumbling son to rescue her." (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248078/, accessed 5/24/23)
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit http://www.prelinger.com.
Subjects: Law enforcement; Gender roles
Tags: silent film; comedy; intertitles; racism; gangsters; police; racist language; nightclubs; female detectives; women in police work; kidnapping; fist fights; violence against women; dockworkers; people of African origin or descent; trick photography; Black people swimming; stop motion; hat-check girls; gag shot of two men kissing by accident; smoking; marijuana (?); stunts; stuntwomen; shipping; tall ships; rigging
Film Sponsor:
Creator: Larry Semon, Noel M. Smith, Chadwick Pictures Corp.
Credits: E. W. Hammons presents Larry Semon in "Her Boy Friend"
A Larry Semon special comedy produced by Chadwick Pictures Corp.
The Players: Dorothy Dwan, Alma Bennett, Oliver N. Hardy, Fred Spence, Frank Alexander, Bill Hauber, Larry Semon.
Distributor: Educational Film Exchanges
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Mogull Bros.
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1924
Geographical Location: USA
Genre/Form: fiction, short, silent
Language:
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: positive
Color: color
Color Process: tinted
Sound or Silent: silent
Film Soundtrack Type: mos
Edge Code: plus circle, circle circle circle
Frame Rate: 16 fps
Length (feet): 352
Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, description, catalog record, video
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