They All Fall - 1925

Country: United States

Language: English

Director: Ralph Ceder

Writer: Ralph Ceder

Stars: Bobby Ray and Oliver Hardy

Release Date: 1 August 1925 (USA)

Production Co: Cumberland Productions

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Short | Comedy

Something in Her Eye - 1915

Country: United States

Language: English

Stars: Trixie Gale, Billie Rhodes and Oliver Hardy

Release Date: 10 November 1915 (USA)

Runtime: USA: 8 min

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Short | Comedy

A woman passes a construction site and gets dirt in her eye, which causes her to wink involuntarily. Soon she has a trail of suitors.

In the year that Charles Chaplin signed up with Essanay Films to write, direct and act in his own two reelers, Oliver Hardy (known as Babe Hardy) was earning his living by acting in one reelers such as 'Something in her Eye'. He would have to wait until he teamed up with Stan Laurel in 1927 in the classic silent short film, 'You're Darn Tootin', before he would receive the same level of success as Chaplin.

Trivia

The actress top-billed as Billie Rhodes is not the well-known comedienne of the same period, 'Billie Rhodes (I)', but a different actress imitating her. 

The Floor Below - 1919

Country: United States

Directors: Charley Chase, Alfred J. Goulding

Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini and Eddie Boland

Release Date: 28 December 1919 (USA)

Production Co: Rolin Films

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Comedy | Short

Dynamite Doggie - 1925

Country: United States

Director: Grover Jones

Stars: Al St. John

Genre: Comedy

Reel Comedies, Incorporated, production; distributed by Educational Film Exchanges, Incorporated [Tuxedo Comedies]. / © 6 April 1925 by Reel Comedies, Incorporated. Released March 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Roscoe Arbuckle is likely to have been the director and scenario writer of this film, while Jones received screen credit for direction.

Survival status: Print exists in the EYE Film Instituut Nederland film archive [35mm positive].

Listen Lena - 1927

Country: United States

Language: English

Director: Clem Beauchamp, Stephen Roberts (uncredited)

Stars: Al St. John, Lucille Hutton and Jack Lloyd

Release Date: 13 February 1927 (USA)

Production Co: Jack White (as Mermaid Comedies)

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Comedy | Short 

3 Missing Links - 1927

Country: United States

Director: Albert Herman

Writers: Joseph Basil, E.V. Durling, Albert Herman (story - as Al Herman), E.T. Montgomery   

Stars: Hilliard Karr, Frank Alexander and 'Kewpie' Ross

Release Date: 12 December 1927 (USA)

Production Co: Standard Photoplay Company

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Plot Keywords: Number In Title

Genres: Short | Comedy   

Mixed Nuts - 1922

Country: United States

Language: English

Director: James Parrott

Writer: Jean DuBois

Stars: Stan Laurel, Max Asher and Dave Morris

Release Date: 1922 (USA)

Production Co: Samuel Bischoff Productions

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Short | Comedy

Nuts in May, re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_ , combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes.

Horseshoes - 1923

Country: United States

Directors: James D. Davis, Larry Semon

Writers: James D. Davis (story), Larry Semon (story)

Stars: Larry Semon, Kathleen Myers, Oliver Hardy

Release Date: 10 December 1923 (USA)

Genre: Comedy | Short

A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry.

Three Wise Goofs - 1925

Country: United States

Language: English

Director: James D. Davis

Stars: Hilliard Karr, Frank Alexander and 'Kewpie' Ross

Release Date: 4 October 1925 (USA)

Production Co: Joe Rock Comedies (I), Standard Photoplay Company

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Comedy | Short

Naughty Boy - 1927

Country: United States

Director: Charles Lamont

Writer: Charles Lamont

Stars: Lupino Lane, Wallace Lupino and Kathryn McGuire

Release Date: 17 April 1927 (USA)

Production Co: Lupino Lane Comedy Corporation

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Comedy | Short

This is a real corker. It starts off with a terrific routine with an erratic elevator. Lane's character, Johnny Jones, upon sight falls in love with Mary Craig (played by Kathryn McGuire who appears in a number of Lane comedies). The man who hopes to marry her is Henry Sharp played by Wallace Lupino; the title card introducing this character says" Henry Sharp – so mean he would steal a dead fly from a blind spider." Johnny agrees to do his father a favor by posing as his little boy of about 10 years old. The father had told the wealthy widow he hopes to marry that he was only 30 years old. Because of Lane's small stature this is more believable than most comedy routines that have an adult playing a child. The widow has a daughter who is, of course, Mary Craig, the girl Johnny previously met on the elevator and fell in love with. One of the best routines is when Johnny, thinking he has given sleeping pills to the suitor in fact drinks the concoction himself and falls asleep. Different people carry him upstairs (including the widow); he falls down the stairs and is carried back up again. And so it goes.

Bouncing Baby - 1916

Country: United States

Filming Locations: Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Genres: Short | Comedy

Trivia

Incorrectly credited as a Vim Comedy starring Oliver Hardy. He does not appear in this and the production company is unknown.

Revealing mistakes

While racing across the rooftops of downtown Jacksonville, the "Baby" and his cohort in crime plunge down a chimney. The chimney shifts on the rooftop when they first jump into it, revealing it as a prop 

Meet the Folks - 1927

Country: United States

Language: English

Directors: Al Christie, Robert P. Kerr

Writers: Hal Conklin (story), Al Martin (titles), Norman Z. McLeod (cartoons)

Stars: Jimmie Adams, Patsy O'Byrne and Gaylord Lloyd

Release Date: 10 July 1927 (USA)

Production Co: Christie Film Company

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Comedy | Short