Lost Silent Film Comes Home: Billy B. Van’s Van-ar-chy Returns to Newport After More Than a Century

Rare 1919 comedy offers a glimpse of early filmmaking—and everyday life—in the Lake Sunapee region NEWPORT, NH, UNITED ...

Long-lost 1919 silent comedy found in dusty antique shop in Japan — it’ll finally be seen again

A mythical slapstick silent comedy that’s been missing for more than a century “miraculously” turned up inside a dusty antique shop in Japan. The long-lost 1919 film “Van-ar-chy,” starring old-time ...

Silent Comedy 'So This Is Paris': An Ernst Lubitsch Film That Is Too Incompatible with Katsuben

Ernst Lubitsch's post-Hollywood film 'So This Is Paris' (1926) is a poor match for katsuben (live silent film ...
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Long-lost 1926 comedy found in Paramount's vault gets new life at S.F. Silent Film Festival

It took a little detective work - and a lot of patience - for film restorers Robert Harris and James Mockoski to realize the long "lost" 1926 comedy "The New Klondike" wasn't missing after all. Now, ...
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Pokes & Jabbs’ Surreal Silent Comedies

If you’re more than a casual fan of the comedies of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, you might know Bobby Burns as a supporting player in their films. There was a time, however, before Laurel and Hardy’s ...
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Essanay Studios: Silent Film Innovators, the ‘Handsomest Man in the World,’ and the San Diego Tie

Still from 1915 Charlie Chaplin comedy produced by Essanay, showing studio logo via Wikimedia Essanay Studios, via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. https://commons ...
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American silent film comedies : an illustrated encyclopedia of persons, studios, and terminology / by Blair Miller

This illustrated compilation identifies people, studios, technical companies, and terms associated with silent film comedy from about 1890-1930. More than 300 entries are biographical, including ...