MGM Short Subjects 1930-1931

 A 1930 issue of Exhibitors Hearld dedicated a large section to promotion for upcoming films for MGM. Here is part of that section, which is dedicated to the short subjects that MGM would be making a distributing (including the films from Hal Roach Studios) in 1930 and 1931. It states, "The Greatest Short Product Line Up MGM Has Ever Offered." While this is obviously just publicity, it is hard to argue with a lineup that includes Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang (AKA The Little Rascals), The Boy Friends, Charley Chase and Ub Iwerks' bizarre Flip the Frog cartoons. 

Now enjoy some shorts from 1930 and 1931.

You have seen Burton Holmes in the article. This is a name that you may not be familiar with. So here is a short video about him and his films. 

Classic Short Film: Sundown Ltd. (1924)

 

100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer (2014)

 

For those of us who love classic comedy, Hal Roach is a legendary name. He produced many classic films starring the likes of Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, the Our Gang kids (also known as The Little Rascals), Charley Chase and plenty more. All these years later these films stand as some of the greatest comedies of all time. So of course, for us any book about Hal Roach makes for essential reading. However, this book stands as one of the best books about the subject. This is because it not only gives us a historical overview of one of the best comedy studios of all time, but it also gives us the most vivid portrait of Hal Roach as a person available. 

Author Craig Calman is a comedy filmmaker himself who discovered the work of Hal Roach at a very young age becoming enamored with the films of Laurel and Hardy. Little did he dream as that young kid that one day he would meet the producer of those classic Laurel and Hardy films. At the age of twenty he went out on a limb and tried to contact Hal Roach, when working on a term paper. This resulted in a decades long friendship. This book is the result of that friendship. Much of the book is filled with quotes from Hal Roach. Because of this we not only get a view of how films were made at the Hal Roach Studio but also insights into Hal Roach viewed comedy and filmmaking. His views on comedy are quite revealing from him speaking about taking children into consideration but never making films only for them to him talking about how he believed that comedies should not exceed forty-five minutes (though he would make feature length comedies out of necessity). He even speaks about others in the comedy field from Mack Sennett to Benny Hill. While I may not agree on some of those comments, they do say a lot about his approach to comedy and how it differed from others. Even the times when Roach's memory proved to be faulty, what he remembers about his own work says a lot about the way he viewed his career and the various films he worked on. 

Though by design this book cannot go into as much detail about individual films as Randy Skretvedt's Laurel and Hardy books or Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bann's book about Our Gang, it still gives a very nice historical overview of the work from this movie studio. Probably most valuable is that for each year of the studio's existence, Calman provides a list of how many films were made with each of the studio's comedy stars as well as how many dramatic features or special productions were made for each year. Calman as well as using his personal experience with Hal Roach also digs into studio documentation and old movie magazines to create an even greater dig into the history of these films. 

Also unlike many histories of the Hal Roach Studio, this book does not neglect the studio's later involvement in TV. This includes both TV shows made by the studio and those that used the studio's resources for filming (did you know The Abbott and Costello Show was filmed there?).

 This book is a must have for any fan of classic comedy. 

For any fan of classic comedy 

Joe Bolton and The Clubhouse Gang Comedies

 On the subject of kiddies shows and classic comedy shorts, starting in 1955, kiddie show host Joe Bolton hosted a show called The Clubhouse Gang. The series aired on the local New York City station, WPIX Channel 11.  As well as the host segments, this show also consisted of classic Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals comedies). 

The following is a short 1955 article about this series from Radio TV Mirror. If you have trouble reading it click on the following page and use your touch screen to zoom in. If you don't have a touch screen click here. 

Included in the following page (from a New York issue of TV guide dated September 10, 1955) is a little bit about Officer Joe Bolton. The same guidelines apply if you have trouble reading this page. 

My fellow Three Stooges fans might also know that Joe Bolton would go on to host another kiddie show called The Three Stooges Funhouse, which would include many of the Stooges' best short comedies. He would also appear in two of The Stooges' feature length movies; Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960) and The Outlaws is Coming (1965). 

Here is a tribute to Officer Joe Bolton. 

And here is a classic Our Gang short, Bored of Education (1936). 

Classic Short Film: Mush And Milk (1933)

The Great Movie Shorts (1972)

 

Leonard Maltin's The Great Movie Shorts is a seminal book on classic short subjects. While this book is still incredibly enjoyable and informative today, to truly appreciate it, you must put into the context of the time it was written. At this time most writings about movie focused on "important" films, nearly all of which were feature length. A whole book long study of the live action short subject of the 1930's and 40's was something virtually unheard of. Today there have been many books written about classic short subjects (Leonard Maltin would even co-write another on (with Richard W. Bann), The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang). As such this could have been a very basic history and still been an important book. That this is such a well-researched and incredibly informative (even today) book at this time makes it all the more impressive. 

This book is broken up into multiple different sections. The first of these is brief history of each major (and some not so major) Hollywood studio and their output in the short subject field. The second is a survey of many of the classic short subject series. This section makes up the bulk of the book and as well as the surveys each series gets a filmography giving you a list of each film, acting and directing credits and a plot summary. This section includes the most popular and famous series such as Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Our Gang (AKA The Little Rascals), Joe McDoakes, Pete Smith (whose shorts play on TCM regularly) and Charley Chase. Also included are the sound shorts of the beloved silent comedians Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon (the talkie work of legendary silent comedy producer Mack Sennett is even chronicled in this book). Here you get a great picture of an overlooked part of the work of some true Hollywood legends. There are also many series here that even the most avid cinephiles will not have seen or maybe even heard of. Not all the series listed here are comedies as we also get a look at such series as Crime Does Not Pay, John Nesbit's Passing Parade and Screen Snapshots. After this comes surveys of various genres that were not talked about in depth elsewhere in this book (newsreels, travelogues, musicals and sports). 

With all this the book marks a perfect introduction to those who wish to get further into classic short subjects, letting you know all aspects of the classic live action short subject, so that whatever your interests may be, you will know when to start. Maltin's writing also often fully reflects his passion for the subject and will make you want to seek out many of the films he has written about. Yet this book is equally essential to seasoned movie buffs. It's in-depth filmographies, look at obscure films (as well as the better-known ones), surprisingly in-depth histories and especially its quotes from many of those who worked on these films (many of whom Maltin talked to firsthand) make this just as essential reading for true cinephiles. Beyond this the book is simply a lot of fun to read. 

This book would be reissued and updated in 2015, when it would be retitled Selected Short Subjects" From Spanky to the Three Stooges. 

This book should have a treasured place in every movie buff's library. It certainly has a very cherished place in mine. 

Silent Films on TCM for May 2025

 Hello my friends, since plenty of you, like me, probably love both silent movies and TCM, here is a list of silent films playing on TCM this month. 

                                                                        Thursday May 1st

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927) Director: Carl Theodore Dreyer. Starring Maria Falconetti and Euguene Silvain. 12am Pacific. 3pm Eastern

The Great Train Robbery (1903) Director: Edwin S. Porter. Starring Broncho Billy Anderson and Marie Murray. 5pm Pacific. 8pm Eastern.  

The Invaders (1912) Directors: Thomas Ince and Francis Ford. Starring Ethel Grandin and Ann Little. 5:15pm Pacific. 8:15pm Eastern. 

The Squaw Man (1914) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Starring Dustin Farnum and Monroe Salisbury. 6pm Pacific. 9pm Eastern

The Iron Horse (1925) Director: John Ford. Starring George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. 7pm Pacific. 10pm Eastern. 

Tumbleweeds (1925). Directors: William S. Hart and King Baggott. Starring William S. Hart and Barbara Bedford. 10:15pm Pacific. 1:15am Eastern.

The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) Director: Henry King. Starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky. 11:45pm Pacific. 2:45am Eastern. 

                                                                            Friday May 2nd

Sky High (1922) Director: Lynn Renyolds. Starring Tom Mix and J. Farrell MacDonald. 1:30am Pacific. 4:30am Eastern.

                                                                               Sunday May 4th

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) Director: Lotte Reiniger. 9:30pm Pacific. 12:30am Eastern. 

                                                                                  Sunday May 11th

Mary, Queen of Tots (1925) Director: Robert McGowan. Starring Our Gang. 9:30pm Pacific. 12:30am Eastern.

A Lady of Chance (1928) Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Starring Norma Shearer and Lowell Sherman. 10pm Eastern. 1am Eastern.

                                                                                    Wednesday May 14th

The Melies Mystery (2021) Director: Eric Lange. Documentary about silent film. 2am Pacific. 5am Eastern. 

Metropolis (1926) Director: Fritz Lang. Starring Alfred Abel and Bridgette Helm. 3:15am Pacific. 6:15am Eastern. 

                                                                        Sunday May 18th

Straightforward Boy (1929) Director: Yasujirô Ozu. Starring Tatsuo Saitô and Tomio Aoki. 9:30pm Pacific. 12:30am Eastern.

I Graduated But... (1929) Director:  Yasujirō Ozu. Starring Minoru Takada and Kinuyo Tanaka. 9:45pm Pacific. 12:45am Eastern.

                                                                        Sunday May 25th

Shoulder Arms (1918) Director: Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance. 9:15pm Pacific. 12:15am Eastern. 

A Sailor-Made Man (1921). Director: Fred C. Newmeyer. Starring Harold Lloyd and Noah Young. 10pm Pacific. 1am Eastern. 

  

 

Silent Films on TCM for April 2025

 

As I know many of you, like me, are fans of both silent movies and TCM. Here is a list of silent films that on playing on TCM this April.

Wednesday April 2nd

Sherlock Jr. (1924) Director: Buster Keaton. Starring Buster Keaton and Kathryn McGuire. 1am Pacific. 4am Eastern. 

Sunday April 6th

The New Klondike (1926) Director: Lewis Milestone. Starring Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee. 9pm Pacific. 12am Eastern. 

Sunday April 13th

The Oyster Princess (1919) Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Starring Ossi Oswalda and Harry Liedtke. 9pm Pacific. 12am Eastern. 

Thursday April 17th

The Life and Passion of the Christ (1907) Director: Ferdinand Zecca. 4am Pacific. 7am Eastern. 

Sunday April 20th

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Director: Fred Niblo. Starring Ramon Novarro and May McAvoy. 9pm Pacific. 12am Eastern. 

Sunday April 27th

Dogs of War (1923) Director: Robert F. McGowan. Starring Our Gang. 8:30pm Pacific. 11:30pm Eastern. 

The Temptress (1926) Director: Fred Niblo. Starring Greta Garbo and Antinio Moreno. 9pm Pacific. 12am Eastern. 

Monday April 28th 

The Mysterious Island (1929, part talkie) Director: Lucien Hubbard. Starring Lionel Barrymore and Jacqueline Gadsden. 11:45am Pacific. 2:45pm Eastern. 

The Little Rascals: The Restored Silents Vol. 1

 

After The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals (or Our Gang) is probably the most popular series of classic comedy shorts. Everyone knows Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla and Buckwheat. However, this series of shorts lasted from 1922 to 1944 (consisting of 220 films in total). Because of this naturally over the course of the series there was an often-changing roster of kids. This new Blu-Ray set from ClassicFlix takes a look at the earliest incarnation of The Little Rascals with eight silent short films from 1922 and 1923. While some of these shorts show a series trying to find its footing, others are just as entertaining and delightful as the later talkies we are all familiar with. However every one of these shorts is boosted by a wonderful roster of classic child performers. Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, Mickey Daniels, Jackie Condon, Mary Korman, Allen “Farina” Hoskins, Jack Davis, Joe Cobb and Peggy Cartwright are just as wonderful as the later and more famous lineups. 

The restorations are fantastic. While should be expected from films that are over 100 years old, they do not look perfect, they look so much better than they ever have in the past. There is special feature showing clips from the films in both restored and unrestored versions. The difference between the two is incredible. After watching this bonus feature it is hard not to appreciate how much work went into making these films look as good as they do. Other bonus features include a look at the films which will be on Vol. 2 (which has already got me excited about that set) and a pre-Our Gang short featuring Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morison, The Pickaninny (1921), which despite the very dated title is a fun little comedy. 

The new musical scores by Ben Model and Philip C. Carli are wonderful and enhance each film. 

The Shorts 

   

Our Gang (1922): A fun little start to the series. While it doesn't live up to later entries it is still a lot of fun. 

Fire Fighters (1922): This short truly shows a series trying to find its footing. The early scenes do not center around the kids but rather animals dressed as an acting as humans. These early scenes are not funny at all and it is hard not to get impatient for the kids to take over. Luckily when the kids take over, the film gets more entertaining. 

Young Sherlocks (1922): The idea of a short revolving around the gang playing detective is near irresistible and these film gets some pretty good sights gags out of it. While a later short would have probably been funnier, this film is still quite fun.

One Terrible Day (1922): Another fun early short. The premise of a wealthy matron wanting to take a bunch of kids on a trip as a form of charity and soon regretting it is a perfect plotline for a silent comedy. While there aren't as many great gags as there could have been there are still some very fun moments. 

Saturday Morning (1922): The first great Our Gang short, this film is a wonderful silent comedy. The premise of kids simply trying to enjoy a Saturday morning allows each of the kids to have their own solo scenes and truly shine. This film is full of laugh out loud moments and is just as much a classic as any of the later better-known shorts. 

The Big Show (1923): My favorite short on this set. This is an incredibly clever little film that puts a smile on my face every time. The scenes where the kids put on a movie show (that includes impressions of the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks and Ford Sterling) is a pure delight for any lover of silent movies, especially when they recreate a scene from the Harold Lloyd feature Grandma's Boy (1922). This short is also full of laugh out loud moments, especially those revolving around little Farina (the tiniest of the kids) as the security guard. 

The Cobbler (1923): This film has no real story and seems to meander from idea to idea. This creates an uneven short. However, the moments that are funny here are truly hilarious.  

The Champeen! (1923): This short is a precursor to the later films, where Alfalfa and Butch fight over Darla. Frankly it is just as delightful and fun as those later films and the ending is wonderful.

 

This Blu-Ray set is a must have for any fan of silent comedy and I can't wait for Volume 2.  


 

   

Classic Movie Comedians Tackle Football

 For some reason or another, many people seem to be talking about football today. Personally, I couldn't care less about football (or any sport for that matter). I do however love classic comedy. So, I feel this is a great reason to look at some of the great movie comedians takes on this popular sport. 

Probably the most famous example of a classic movie comedian playing football is the classic Harold Lloyd film, The Freshman (1925). 

A close second is The Marx Brothers take on the sport in their classic feature film, Horse Feathers (1932). 

Football based comedy also appeared often in short films. Harry Langdon and The Three Stooges have two of my personal favorite football themed shorts. 

I also enjoy the Our Gang (or Little Rascals) short, The Pigskin Palooka (1937) very much. 

Speaking of the Our Gang kids, once Oliver Hardy got into trouble when he kicked Tommy Bond's football. This clip comes from the feature length movie, Block-Heads (1938). 

Football would later play a major role in the Laurel and Hardy feature, Nothing but Trouble (1944). 

Let us close this post with a couple classic Disney cartoons about football. 

Classic Short Film: Good Cheer (1926)

Classic Short Film: The Glorious Fourth (1927)

Happy 4th my friends. 

Merry Christmas from Classic Hollywood Child Actors

 I love this little two page spread in this 1936 issue of Silver Screen magazine. 

If you have any trouble reading the words on these pages click on them and use your touch screen to zoom in. 

Now for a wonderful little article (that is quite similar) from a 1915 issue of Motion Picture Magazine.

Merry Christmas my friends and as Tiny Tim observed, "God bless us everyone." 

Silent Film of the Month: Dr. Jack (1922)

 

Run Time: 60 minutes. Studio: Hal Roach Studios. Director: Fred C. Newmeyer. Writers: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Jean Havez. Titles: H.M. Walker. Producer: Hal Roach. Main Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince, Eric Mayne, C. Norman Hammond. Cinematographer: Walter Lundin. Editor: T.J. Crizer.

While not exactly an obscure movie (at all), I often feel that Dr. Jack is often overlooked when it comes to Harold Lloyd's feature length films. Though it may not get as much attention as The Kid Brother (1927), The Freshman (1925) or Safety Last (1923), it is a pure delight of a movie. 

Like all of the best silent comedies, this film has a very simple storyline. Dr. Jack (Harold Lloyd) is a friendly doctor, who is beloved by all his patients. His often-unusual methods are based on good old-fashioned kindness. One day he meets a beautiful girl (Mildred Davis) and falls in love. He is soon hired as the new physician for this beautiful girl, who has been under the supervision of a quack doctor who has convinced this healthy girl that she is in fact a very sick woman. 

This movie is one of Harold Lloyd's most gag filled features. In fact, it takes a while for the story to actually start. At first this film is simple one gag revolving around Harold Lloyd being an eccentric doctor after another. This is in no way a complaint about the film. In fact, this is what I love about this movie. These early scenes before the story begins, are truly laugh out loud funny. This is the type of very clever and creative comedy that makes Harold Lloyd's films so delightful, and it is hard to complain when you get one great gag after another. There is also such a wonderful sense of pure comic energy in these early scenes that is simply hard to resist. However even when the story gets underway this comedic energy continues. The big climatic chase scene is especially wonderful. Yet even with the sheer number of gags, there is a certain seemingly effortless sweetness and charm to the romance in this film. At the same time the romance never once takes away from the delightful comedy. 

How excellent this movie is, becomes all the more impressive when you put it into the context of where it came in Harold Lloyd's filmography. This was his third feature length film. Before it was A Sailor-Made Man (1921) and Grandma's Boy (1922). A Sailor-Made Man was originally intended as a short film but ended up being longer with nothing that he or producer Hal Roach felt like cutting. Therefore, it ended up being released as a feature film. Grandma's Boy was something entirely different than what Harold had done before. That movie was just as much of a character study as it was a comedy. Because of this while there were a lot of gags, they were all subservient to the story. Dr. Jack was a different film altogether. It was always intended as a feature film and was a movie where the story was secondary to the gags. With this in mind, it is truly impressive how well-crafted this movie is. 

Like Harold Lloyd's previous two feature films, this movie was directed by Fred Newmeyer. Newmeyer's name appears as director on many of Harold Lloyd's most famous films and it could be said that he did his best work with Lloyd. However, this is not to say that his work away from Lloyd should be overlooked. He directed what many consider to be Larry Semon's best feature length film, The Perfect Clown (1925). He also directed the talkie Our Gang (or Little Rascals) shorts, The Pinch Singer (1936), Arbor Day (1936) and Mail and Female (1937). He even co-directed (with Gordon Douglas) the Our Gang kids in their sole feature length picture, General Spanky (1936). He also directed a silent feature (that is sadly considered lost) starring the great W.C. Feilds, The Potters (1927). Lloyd's co-star in this movie was Mildred Davis. This was his 13th film with her. They would only work in one more movie together, the infamous Safety Last (1923). In 1923 the two would get married in what is said to be one of Hollywood's happiest and longest marriages. They would remain married until she passed away in 1969. Fans of the silent Our Gang shorts may be delighted to see Mickey Daniels and Jackie Condon in a delightful comedy sequence. The first Our Gang short was released the same year as Dr. Jack. Fred Newmeyer was originally directed the first Our Gang short, but the film did poorly with test audiences and was reshot with Robert F. McGowan (who would remain the series director for quite a while) as director.

This film was a major box office hit, even outperforming Lloyd's Grandma's Boy earlier that year. The movie cost $113,000 and grossed $1,275,000. 


Below are a couple of vintage articles about Dr. Jack. If you have trouble reading them, click on the pages and use your touch screen to zoom in. 

Moving Picture World, 1922

Moving Picture News, 1922

For anyone interested in watching this short it can be found on YouTube below. If you want to own it, it is on The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection Vol. 2, which I highly recommend.

 

Resources Used

The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang by Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bann

A-Z of Silent Film Comedy by Glen Mitchell.

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/553892/doctor-jack#articles-reviews?articleId=24009

https://mediahistoryproject.org/

Happy 100th the Alice Comedies

 

You may have heard today referred to as the 100th anniversary of Disney. The reason for this is that this is the day, Walt Disney's first widely released film made it to movie theaters. This film was the short Alice's Wonderland (1923). As well as the importance of this being Walt's first major film, it was also the start of a series of short films that would last for 57 films. This series was called the Alice Comedies. The series would star a live action little girl named Alice (over the course of the series she had been played by Virginia Davis, Margie Gay, Dawn O'Day and Lois Hardwick), who would enter an animated cartoon world. Walt himself admitted that this was a simple reversal of Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell shorts, which featured an animated Koko the Clown entering a live action world. I personally have a strong fondness for this series. So instead of looking at all the amazing feature length movies the Disney studio has released (which I am sure most movie blogs are doing), I am going to share some of my favorite Alice Comedies with you and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 

Alice's Wild West Show (1924). This film is much more of a live action comedy short than a cartoon. Fans of the silent era Our Gang (or Little Rascals) shorts will find that this film very much resembles those classic comedies. Since I have a fondness for those comedies, it should come as no surprise that I love this short. Those who may be expecting a cartoon may be disappointed by the focus on live action here but, for me, this is a very delightful and fun little comedy that always puts a smile on my face. 

Alice's Day at Sea (1924) Another short that is part live action comedy and part cartoon. This is another fast paced and fun film that is full of clever and inventive gags. 

Alice Gets in Dutch (1924) I love this short because it makes me think of myself as a kid. I had a very active imagination in the same way that Alice does and if I got in trouble there is no doubt that I imagined something similar to what Alice does. To me this film perfectly captures that aspect of childhood, and this makes it a pure delight. 

Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925) This film is much more of a pure cartoon than the previous shorts listed. However it is a delightful cartoon with a lot of really fun gags and a clever ending. This film also introduces a Disney character that is still being used today, Mickey's nemesis Pete, still a few years before there would even be a Mickey. 

Alice Gets Stung (1925) This is another film that is pretty much a pure cartoon. Being a hunting cartoon, this film is full of lots of fun clever and well put together gags (I especially love Julis the cat removing his face). This is pure silly cartoon fun. 

Alice's Orphan (1926) With how much Disney cartoons are talked about being too sentimental for some cartoon fans, I love a cartoon like this. This is the type of story, where you would expect a lot of sentimentality but you find none at all. I admit that this is not one of the series' funniest entries but that doesn't stop me from having a real fondness for it. 

Alice's Spooky Adventure (1924) This is another early entry that is just as much a live action comedy as it is a cartoon. Once again it is very remenisicant of Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts in the best of ways. This one is especially memorable due to a surprising and funny ending. 

I hope you enjoyed these films as much as I do. If you have any favorite Alice Comedies that I did not list here, please let me know what they are.

Also credit where credit is due, I got the idea to do a post on the Alice Comedies today after reading this post by blogger Pete Hale.

 

 

 

 

Silent Films on TCM for September 2023

 

Hello once again my friends. I know many of you, like me, are big fans of both silent movies and TCM. Because of this, here is a list of all the silent films that TCM is showing this September. 

Sunday, September 3

City Girl (1930). Director:  F. W. Murnau. Starring: Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. 9:45pm Pacific. 12:45am Eastern. 

Sunday, September 10

The Sea Hawk (1924) Director: Frank Lloyd. Starring: Milton Sills and Enid Bennett. 9:15pm Pacific. 12:15pm Eastern. 

Sunday September 17

The Smart Set (1928). Director: Jack Conway. Starring: William Haines and Alice Day. 9:15pm Pacific. 12:15pm Eastern.

Sunday, September 24

Downhill (1927) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Ivor Novello and Ben Webster. 9:45pm Pacific. 12:45pm Eastern.

Friday, September 29

The Symbol of the Unconquered (1921) Director: Oscar Micheaux. Starring: Iris Hall and Walker Thompson. 3am Pacific. 6am Eastern. 

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021) (a documentary about silent film) Director: Francesco Zippel. 4am Pacific. 7am Eastern. 

 Scaramouche (1923) Director: Rex Ingram. Starring: Alice Terry and Ramon Novarro. 5:30am Pacific. 8:30am Eastern. 

Souls for Sale (1923) Director: Rupert Hughes. Starring: Eleanor Boardman and Mae Busch. 7:45am Pacific. 10:45am Eastern. 

The Pilgrim (1923) Director: Charlie Chaplin. Starring: Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance. 9:30am Pacific. 12:30pm Eastern.

A Woman of Paris (1923) Director: Charlie Chaplin. Starring Edna Purviance and Adolphe Menjou. 10:30am Pacific. 1:30pm Eastern. 

Dogs of War! (1923) Director: Robert F. McGowan. Starring: Our Gang and Harold Lloyd. 12pm Pacific. 3pm Eastern. 

Safety Last! (1923) Directors: Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer. Starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. 12:30pm Pacific. 3:30pm Eastern

Why Worry? (1923) Directors: Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. Starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston. 2pm Pacific. 5pm Eastern. 

 I Was Born, But... (1932) Director: Yasujirô Ozu. Starring: Tatsuo Saitô and Mitsuko Yoshikawa. 3:15pm Pacific. 6:15pm Eastern. 

Classic Short Film: Free Eats (1932)

Classic Short Film: Spooky Hooky (1936)

Classic Short Film: The Glorious Fourth (1927)

Classic Short Film: Beginner's Luck (1935)