WE HAD SEEN this title on sale at Sears, 62nd Street & Western Avenue store in the early 1970's. This was long before the Home Video craze; so naturally the format was either 8 mm or Super 8 Silent. (You see, Schultz, you would play the film on your home projector! Got it?)
WELL, UP UINTIL very recently, we thought that this title was a compilation of various silent film stars that was created by that purveyor home movies in 8 mm, KEN FILMS. But now we know better, ever since TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES aired the 2 reeler some 2 weeks back.
WHAT IS REPRESENTED as a look back at the GOLDEN AGE of SCREEN COMEDY at the MACK SENNETT Studios features many a forgotten moment of visual gags and speeded up action from Sennett's KEYSTONE Company. Names like Billy Bevan, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Mabel Normand, Louise Fazenda, Polly Moran, Ford Sterling and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle are featured.
ALTHOUGH THIS Documentary 2 Reel Short is well worth your investing 20 minutes in, it's not quite what it claims to be; well, not quite. (Read on, Schultz!)
THIS FILM IS the product of Warner Brothers' Short Subjects department. They must have acquired the rights to a lot of SENNETT Silent Movies, for they released this HAPPY TIMES compilation in 1943 and had previously released Sennett's 1921 silent feature, A SMALL TOWN IDOL in 1939. This was a version with added musical score and it had been edited down to a short (2 reels, we believe).
ADDITIONALLY, THROUGH THEIR Vitaphone Subsidiary, Warners produced a series of sound comedies with a definite homage to the silent days. There were several with Roscoe Arbuckle and one starring Ben Turpin, Ford Sterling and many Sennett veterans titled KEYSTONE HOTEL. It did us all proud with its maintaining the spirit of the old films, with a great deal of great sight gags; as well as a marked heavy dose of reverence for the now outmoded silent.
WELL, SOME OF those scenes filmed in the sound era 1930's were used in the HAPPY TIMES & JOLLY MOMENTS Short; being passed off as the McCoy, actual footage from pre World War I and the Roaring Twenties. The scene of "Fatty" Arbuckle and a great deal of Ford Sterling as Chief of Police and his Keystone Kops are really from those Warner Brothers Shorts Subjects from the '30's!
WELL, NOW You've been told these little tidbits of otherwise useless info, You can take this all to the bank! (Just ask Schultz!)
WELL, UP UINTIL very recently, we thought that this title was a compilation of various silent film stars that was created by that purveyor home movies in 8 mm, KEN FILMS. But now we know better, ever since TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES aired the 2 reeler some 2 weeks back.
WHAT IS REPRESENTED as a look back at the GOLDEN AGE of SCREEN COMEDY at the MACK SENNETT Studios features many a forgotten moment of visual gags and speeded up action from Sennett's KEYSTONE Company. Names like Billy Bevan, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Mabel Normand, Louise Fazenda, Polly Moran, Ford Sterling and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle are featured.
ALTHOUGH THIS Documentary 2 Reel Short is well worth your investing 20 minutes in, it's not quite what it claims to be; well, not quite. (Read on, Schultz!)
THIS FILM IS the product of Warner Brothers' Short Subjects department. They must have acquired the rights to a lot of SENNETT Silent Movies, for they released this HAPPY TIMES compilation in 1943 and had previously released Sennett's 1921 silent feature, A SMALL TOWN IDOL in 1939. This was a version with added musical score and it had been edited down to a short (2 reels, we believe).
ADDITIONALLY, THROUGH THEIR Vitaphone Subsidiary, Warners produced a series of sound comedies with a definite homage to the silent days. There were several with Roscoe Arbuckle and one starring Ben Turpin, Ford Sterling and many Sennett veterans titled KEYSTONE HOTEL. It did us all proud with its maintaining the spirit of the old films, with a great deal of great sight gags; as well as a marked heavy dose of reverence for the now outmoded silent.
WELL, SOME OF those scenes filmed in the sound era 1930's were used in the HAPPY TIMES & JOLLY MOMENTS Short; being passed off as the McCoy, actual footage from pre World War I and the Roaring Twenties. The scene of "Fatty" Arbuckle and a great deal of Ford Sterling as Chief of Police and his Keystone Kops are really from those Warner Brothers Shorts Subjects from the '30's!
WELL, NOW You've been told these little tidbits of otherwise useless info, You can take this all to the bank! (Just ask Schultz!)
