8mm Forum: Help identifying 16mm silent shorts (with video!)

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Posted by John Barbour (Member # 3777) on July 29, 2014, 08:46 PM:

Hi All,

I've got two films I'm interested in finding more information about.

The first has no credits and is on Kodak Safety Positive film with the double-square date code (so maybe 1920 or 1940). It's 2.5 minutes long and features a man with a suitcase being chased by a group of men up and down a spiral staircase, an elevator, and a subway car. The way the film ends it's almost like it could be looped forever. Or maybe it's just a short piece of a longer film. Anyway, here's a link to it: Link to Youtube

The other film actually has a title. "Dreamer 1968" is written on the film leader, and "The Dreamer" is on the title screen. It's a short (2.5min) animated film about a man dreaming he takes a rocket to the moon. Date code is square-triangle, so it could be 1967. I'd love to know more about this film as the date suggests it's at the tail-end of the fight to land on the moon.
Link to Dreamer on Youtube

Thanks in advance!

Posted by Panayotis A. Carayannis (Member # 1220) on July 30, 2014, 01:53 AM:

I can't make out the comedy,I will have to look further. The cartoon is a Happy Hooligan from 1917 titled A Trip to the Moon

Posted by John Barbour (Member # 3777) on July 30, 2014, 11:42 AM:

Awesome! Thanks! The animation looked earlier than the date etched into the film, so it was throwing me off. I guess my title was a later addition.
Here's a link to someone else's upload of the Happy Hooligan version

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