1925 film comedy

Filminfo:

9.5 mm film is an amateur film format introduced by Pathé Frères in 1922 as part of the Pathé Baby amateur film system. It was conceived initially as an inexpensive format to provide copies of commercially-made films to home users, although a simple camera was released shortly afterwards.

It became very popular in Europe over the next few decades and is still used by a small number of enthusiasts today. Over 300,000 projectors were produced and sold mainly in France and England, and many commercial features were available in the format.

The format uses a single, central perforation (sprocket hole) between each pair of frames, as opposed to 8 mm film, which has perforations along one edge, and most other film formats, which have perforations on each side of the image. The single hole allowed more of the film to be used for the actual image, and in fact the image area is almost the same size as 16 mm film. The perforation in the film is invisible to viewers, as the intermittent shutter blocks the light as the film is pulled through the gate to the next frame.

Harry Langdon

There was a fourth major silent movie comedian in the 1920s, who many feel ranks up there with Chaplin, Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but who now is sadly forgotten. His name was Harry Langdon and he was born on June 15, 1884, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to a self-employed painter, William, and a Salvation Army volunteer, Lavinia. In his youth, the stage-struck Harry hawked newspapers across the Missouri River in neighboring Omaha, Nebraska to earn money to attend the theater and to stage his own tyro-theatricals. He soon began winning a succession of amateur contests in the area's theaters.