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Larry Tocci
Junior
Posts: 11
From: Rhode Island
Registered: Mar 2011

posted March 28, 2011 01:03 PM

I posted this unknown 8mm short last week. So far everyone's stumped. I forwarded it to silent films.org & the library of congress. neither knew what this film was called or who stars in it. I have uploaded a 40 second screen shot video now.
i refer to it as captain umpteblojowski (GREAT NAME) because of the little man's character. the link to watch the movie is also featured in the screen shot video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etklfc4Wl6o

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Joe Caruso
Film God

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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 28, 2011 01:29 PM

Title could be something else, the girl almost looked like Lillian Gish, but isn't - Due to the decomposition, I'm estimating the film is about 1910, a fairy-tale story of course - Let me investigate - Shorty

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Larry Tocci
Junior
Posts: 11
From: Rhode Island
Registered: Mar 2011

posted March 28, 2011 03:12 PM

THANKS!
Yeah, it's a mystery. She does look like Lillian Gish & Zasu Pitts. It's those dreamy big eyes. I swear the actor who plays Dad or Grandpa was a regular character actor in his day.
As for the little man, with all the heavy make up & the fact that his special effects character has further deteriorated it makes it impossible to see who he is. You get a brief close up just before he enters the doll house, but it's still too difficult to see who it is. Thanks for the help.

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Joe Caruso
Film God

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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 28, 2011 03:40 PM

A bit like Victor Moore, so I checked the IMDB with Gish & Pitts, the earliest films have them older - It's a fairy-tale sequence, and I still think the man bears a little like the cop from POP GOES THE EASEL - Odd how these early people look alot like those we are already familiar with, keep a weather-eye out in old films for those faces - I will too

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