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Finding a Chestnut in a Haystack

by Ben Model
September 21, 2019September 21, 2019

The Mack Sennett films released through Paramount in the late ‘teens give you the impression that an effort was underway to take the Keystone format up a level. That is, if you can see one of the Paramounts. Despite who… Read More »Finding a Chestnut in a Haystack

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“Jimmy Aubrey Comedy” is Not Always an Oxymoron

by Ben Model
November 19, 2018

Worries and Wobbles (1917) has what might appear to be three strikes against it on the surface: “Jimmy Aubrey comedy”, “directed by Larry Semon” and that it’s a rather blatant knock-off of Chaplin’s One A.M.. The first of these is… Read More »“Jimmy Aubrey Comedy” is Not Always an Oxymoron