Wid's Filmdom (1921)

Short “In for Life’”—Christy-Educational pé Of production deans Wace) + nc Nae ee > 2 reel comedy [he dog in this comedy spoils the wedding by running off with the The couple, however, decide to elope at midnight. Instead of finding his bride waiting for him, the groom found her father and six policemen and a good deal of damage is done in the scenes that follow. After a wild chase the would-be groom is finally brought before the judge who pronounces his sentence in the form of a marriage indictment, much to the anger and surprise of the father and joy of the bride. The judge goes still further and sentences the unwilling father to write a big check in favor of the newly There is much in this comedy that is very unconvincing, in spite of the novel twist in the ending. It could stand a good deal of cutting, for as it is it makes but a fair comedy production. bride’s veil. married couple. Clyde Cook in “The Sailor”—Fox Type of prodtttion..... is... 0.0 seas cetemetome me « 2 reel comedy The title gives it away. The Fox comedian becomes a sea-going Tony and most of the laughs come through his maneuvering aboard ship. “The Sailor” isn’t as consistently funny as “The Guide” and some others, and Cook uses a few very old gags although most of them are still good and get laughs. The comedian has a tendency to spoil the comedy effect of his stunts more than once by keeping it up too long. For instance in the opening reel he fools around a dock where a pile driver is in operation. He just avoids being Ee eee Release Date Footage Reviewed SHORT REELS—STATE RIGHTS ADVENTURES OF T. S. S. CORP. Adventures of Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln), 15 episodes. ALLIED DISTRIBUTING CORP. Alt & Howell Comedies (12 2-reels), Pure and Simple (2 reels), Liquorish Lips (2 reels). ARROW FILM CORP. Tex Detective Series. Arrow-Hank Mann Comedies: One every other week (2 reels). Blazed Trail Productions: One every other week (2 reels). Arrow-Northwood Dramas (2 reels): Looking Up Jim, In the River, Three and a Girl, Raiders of the North, A Knight of the Pines, The Man of Brawn, The Strangers, Breed of the North, A Fight é for a Soul, Beloved Brute, Quicksands, Border River. Spotlight Comedies (2 reels): Champion by Chance, Soap Bubbles, Her Husband’s Flat, His Wife Jimmy. Ardath XLNT Comedies (2 reels): Wild Women and Tame Men, The Village Grocer, Homer Joins the Force. Thunderbilt Jack (Jack Hoxie), 15 episodes. AYCIE PICTURES CORP. 15 Westerns (each 2 reels). AYWON FILM CORP. Harry Carey: 15 Westerns (each 2 reels). Joy Comedies: 6 (each 2 reels). Franklin Farnum: 12 Westerns (2 reels). Helen Holmes: 22 Railroad Dramas (2 reels). Mary Pickford Revivals. Cc. B. C. FILM SALES Star Ranch Westerns (2 reels). Screen Snapshots (Bi-monthly) (1 reel). CELEBRATED PLAYERS Gump (1 reel each). f Celebrated Comedies (1 reel each). DOMINANT PICTURES, INC. Western Star Dramas (2 reels). FEDERATED FILM EXCHANGE Monty Banks Comedies (2 reels): Nearly Married, Kidna 3 5 (2 : , pper’s Revenge A Bedroom Scandal, Where Is My Wife? His First Hanaene: * Bride and Gloom, In and Out, His Dizzy Day. Hallroom as eos (2 reels): False Roomers, Their Dizzy Finish, ircus eroes, Ford Weekly. Serial: Miracles of the Jungle, 15 episodes. FILM MARKET, INC. Jimmy Callahan, 12 2-reels. Serials: Success Series: Reels “bumped off” at every drive. This is good at first but gets monotonous. The best comedy is in the second reel when “The Sailor’ is washed ashore on to a cannibal island. There’s some fine laughs in this, especially when Cook gets out the Dominoes and “shoots” the Queen for her crown aiter he’s taken all her other valuables, “The Country Mouse and the City Mouse”—Aesop-Pathe Type of productiogie ys. 6 ccceeue tee = age 1 reel animated This follows along the lines set in the previous productions of this series of animated cartoons illustrating Aesop’s fables. It opens with the city mouse driving out into the country in his flivver. On the road he runs short of water and stops off at a farm where, grateful for the hospitality that he received, he invites his farmer host to visit him in the city. This the farmer does, but not without a good many difficulties and adventures that arise from the complex life in large towns. At length the farmer mouse is pleased to arrive home safely. “Contentment is greater than riches” is the moral that is flashed upon the screen near the finish, but this hardly follows as a conclusion to what happened before. Somehow or other the logic is poor. Because the country mouse is wretched in town, it does not follow that he is contented in the country. Another far fetched analogy follows as a conclusion in the form of a cartoon showing the evils of discontented capital and labor. Release Date Footage Reviewed GAUMONT COMPANY News (every Tuesday); Graphic (every Friday). Serials: In the Clutches of the Hindoo (19,089 feet), 10 episodes. HERALD PRODUCTIONS, INC. Mack Swain Comedies (2 reels): Moonlight Knight, Full of Spirit, See America First. HORIZON PICTURES, INC. Norma Talmadge Reissues (fourteen) (each 2 reels). PINNACLE COMEDIES Razzin’ the Jazz, Why Change Your Mother-in-Law? Nation’s Dream, Shimmy Isle, JOAN FILM SALES CO. Invisible Ray Series: Ruth Clifford and Jack Sheril (15 episodes) 31,000 feet); (2 reels): Sweethearts, Service Stripes, He’s In Again, The Conquering Hero. KINETO CO. OF AMERICA (Released through National Exchange) Kineto Review (The Living Book of Knowledge). Second Series (1 reel): Was Darwin Right? Bonnie Scotland, Birds of Crags and Marshes, Village Life in Switzerland, Peculiar Pets, Combatting the Elements, Dexterity and Mimicry of Insects, Primitive Life in Tennessee, Bear Hunting in California, Paris the Beautiful, A Naturalist’s Paradise, Morocco the Mysterious, Let’s See the Animals. Charles Urban’s Movie Chats (released through State Rights Exchanges) : Wonders of the World (2 serials); First Series from No. 1 to No. 26 (each 1 reel);° Second Series from No, 27 to No. 52 (each 1 reel). LEVEY, HARRY, ENTERPRISES Electricity—It’s Development. PACIFIC FILM COMPANY White Cap Comedies: Featuring George Ovey (Once-a-week) (1 reel). Newspaper Stories: Featuring Irene Hunt (Two-a-month) (2 reels). Vernon Dent Comedies: Onc-a-week (1 reel). JACOB WILK Lee Kid Comedies (2 reels each). REELCRAFT PICTURES Billy Franey Comedies (1 reel each). Matty Roubert (Romances of Youth), Royal Comedies (2 reels each). Bud and His Buddies (1 reel each). Paragon Comedies (1 reel each). Alt & Howell Comedies: Marked Women (each 2 reels). Reelcraft Scenics (1 reel each). Aladdin Comedies (1 reel each). Mirth Comedies (2 reels each). (2 reels) :