When Comedy was King

Duration: 84 min.

Year Published: 1965

Creator: CAROSL

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Culled from the classics of the silent era are some of the best performances of: Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Turpin, Arbuckle, Beery, Swanson, Normand, the Keystone Cops, Chase, Kennedy, Erwin, Clyde, Conklin, Snub Poollard, Al St. John, Finlayson, Bevan, Swain, Hurlock, Dent, and Vernon., Celebrates the movies of the great comedians of the silent film era with clips from classic scenes.

Complete Record: , A compilation of excerpts from silent comedies, ranging from the early Mack Sennett films of 1914 to the sophisticated Hal Roach efforts of 1928. Presents sequences from the work of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Ben Turpin, Fatty Arbuckle, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, Mabel Normand, the Keystone Kops, Charley Chase, Edgar Kennedy, and Snub Pollard. Includes excerpts from Keaton's Cops and Laurel and Hardy's Big Business. , A laugh-filled and nostalgic cinematic trip down memory lane--to the days of the Keystone Kop capers, the bathing beauties, Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, custard pies, and the slinky vamp Gloria Swanson. A view of Hollywood history as it was made by some of the great pantominic artists of America., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.