A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent Era.A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent Era.A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent Era.
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Ward Wilson
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
Lionel Barrymore
- Self
- (archive footage)
Harry Carey
- Self
- (archive footage)
Lillian Gish
- Self
- (archive footage)
Owen Moore
- Self
- (archive footage)
Kate Bruce
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Arthur V. Johnson
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Marion Leonard
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
David Miles
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Walter Miller
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Frank Powell
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
- Crazy creditsAll credited cast are identified verbally by narrator Ward Wilson.
- ConnectionsEdited from His Duty (1909)
Featured review
No Fun For the Silent Film
"Film Fun" is "An RKO-Pathe Screenliner" assembled by Burton Benjamin and narrated by Ward Wilson. This one-reel streamlines three silent film shorts for the amusement of theater exhibitors and television programmers with time to kill. Mr. Wilson or his writer may have seen the entire versions of the originals, since he identifies unseen plot points and character names. This is especially evident in the middle entry, "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" with "Basil Underwood" and "Bessie". The beginning and ending dramas are better. They are Biograph films with Lillian Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey and Owen Moore. The complete version of "A Cry for Help" (1912) is presently unavailable and "The Policeman's Dilemma" is worth investigating.
The originals were not comedies.
*** Film Fun (1955) Burton Benjamin ~ Ward Wilson, Owen Moore, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
The originals were not comedies.
*** Film Fun (1955) Burton Benjamin ~ Ward Wilson, Owen Moore, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
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- wes-connors
- Dec 29, 2010
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- Also known as
- Screenliners (1954-1955 season) #13: Film Fun
- Production company
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- Runtime9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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