Tag: educational pictures

  • Cliff Bowes Made Lots of Cameos

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    Ben Model
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    Every once in a while, a Cliff Bowes comedy turns up. Their rarity and scarcity explains why you probably don’t know who Cliff Bowes is. His one-reel comedies are undeservedly forgotten, but luckily some were accidentally preserved. Cliff Bowes starred in a series of comedies for Educational Pictures,  part of their one-reel “Cameo” series supervised…

  • an “educational” week

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    Ben Model

    Yesterday was the Silent Clowns program of shorts released by E.W. Hammons’ Educational Pictures. We’d planned 5 shorts, but then I turned up a lost one-reeler starring Wallace Lupino on eBay a couple weeks ago, and we threw it into the program. So, our audience was the first to see this film in several decades.…