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What’s a Nice Car Like You Doing in a Comedy Short Like This?

by Ben Model
March 5, 2018

Putting Humpty Together Again, Thanks to the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress It isn’t often that a two-reel comedy can be reassembled by accessing a reel from one archive and a reel from another, but we… Read More »What’s a Nice Car Like You Doing in a Comedy Short Like This?

Charlie Chaplin, Marcel Perez, and a Pair of Drowning Ladies

by Ben Model
February 19, 2018

There was a lot of borrowing and sharing of material in the days of silent comedy shorts, a tradition that grew out of vaudeville and circus. In the milieu of live comedy performance, there were certain routines that were a… Read More »Charlie Chaplin, Marcel Perez, and a Pair of Drowning Ladies