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HOME MOVIES FOR NOVEMBER
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• "Leading Lizzie Astray," produced about 1915, is still hilarious movie entertainment. Prints are now available in 8mm. and 16mm. from Fun Film LiLbrary and are highly esteemed by film collectors.
• If you're not old enough to remember the famous Keystone comedies, then there's a treat in store for you in the revival of these films for home projectors. Scene from Fun Film Library's "The Race for Life."
IIW ENTERTAINMENT IN OLD-TIME MOVIES
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"HOW mother and dad the pictures on this page. They'll recognize them as scenes from motion pictures that were popular screen fare more than two decades ago!
They'll recognize burly Mack Swain in the upper left photo but probably won't remember the scene is from ''Leading Lizzie Astray." They'll recognize Mabel Normand in the next photo being tied to the tracks by a dastardly gang led by Ford Sterling who later became Mack Sennett's most famous Keystone Cop. And below, after close study, they may recognize Gloria Swanson in this scene from a film that established her a star, way back in 1915.
Yesterday's screen tragedies are today's funniest laugh riots. So popular has the revival of old time silent movies become that many theatres have been established from coast to coast for the express purpose of exhibiting them to the public. One such theatre right in the heart of New York's Times Square is playing to standing room only every night. And just a block away, there is a film library that offers the home movie projectionist 8mm. and 1 6mm prints of these very films!
There is no type of movie subject which lends itself so well for the suc
cessful amusement of all kinds of audiences as early-day silent "came the dawn" movies. Of course, back in the days when these films were made, they were meant to be mighty solemn renditions of serious stories. Many a hanky was made soggy with tears by the very movies that today are humorous in contrast with current cinema standards. And when Mack Sennett entered the film production field with his unique slapstick comedy ideas, he provided the rapid-fire action-comedies that have endured to complete the make-up of laugh-riot movie programs for today's amateur exhibitor.
Here indeed is an idea for the countless movie amateurs who nightly are turning to their projectors and personal libraries of films to provide war-time entertainment and to sustain interest in their hobby. In this vast library of old time movies are endless hours of enjoyment, countless laughs, and boundless entertainment for young and old. Moreover, 8mm. and 16mm. prints of these old time films are virtually museum pieces, offering as they do to the movie amateur, opportunity to complete a personal library with replicas of motion pictures produced perhaps long before he was born.
The history of the film library, which is the only source of these films, dates back to 1893, year of the first Chicago World's Fair, at which time it acquired films of Fatima and of Eugene Sandow, world famous strong man. The library preserved the motion picture records of such historical events as the • Continual on Page 371
• Scene from a silent melodrama of 1915, starring Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon, now reproduced in 8mm. and 16mm.