Dr. Dani SanchezAug 25, 2025
First up, is “Won in a Cubboard” AKA “Won in a Closet” (1914) (https://tinyurl.com/yc2dchrb) starring and directed by Mabel Normand. This is the second film she ever directed. It was considered to be a lost film until it was rediscovered in an Aotearoa/New Zealand archive in 2010.
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Supposedly, “Won in a Cupboard” (1914) is a send up of D.W. Griffith’s short crime thriller “An Unseen Enemy” (1912), which was the first film to star The Gish Sisters.
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“A Natural Born Gambler” (1916) (https://tinyurl.com/uxapdap3) written, directed and starring the legendary Broadway and vaudevillian comedian and singer Bert Williams.
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Content Warning: Black performers often had to wear blackface themselves in order to play to the minstrel stereotypes preferred by white audiences. Some performers, like Bert Williams, also wore black gloves as well. Also, similar to some film made by Black owned film companies the intertitle cards are written in phonetics similar to the AAVE of the day.
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“A Natural Born Gambler” (1916) was the first time a Black performer was contracted as both a leading actor and as a filmmaker to a non-Black owned American film company.
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And now our feature presentation: “Girl Shy” (1924) (https://tinyurl.com/ywrwktdh) written and directed by Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston.
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Despite “Girl Shy” (1924) being Harold Lloyd’s first independent film after he left Hal Roach, it still features some of the “Our Gang” kiddos: Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon & Mickey Daniels
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Harold Lloyd in “Girl Shy”(1924) x Buster Keaton in “Seven Chances”(1925)
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Jobyna Ralston and Harold Lloyd in “Girl Shy”
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Similar to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd was known for doing his own daring stunts. During the filming of the Firetruck scene Lloyd was knocked unconscious by the firehose nozzle & filming resumed once he came back around b/c that’s showbiz, baby!
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Our final piece is “Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life” (1913) (https://tinyurl.com/yeymzyav) directed and produced by Mack Sennett and starring Mabel Normand, The Keystone Cops and race car driver Barney Oldfield himself
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This print of “Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life” (1913) features live accompaniment
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“Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life” (1913) was the first of a series of films starring world famous racecar driver Barney Oldfield. He would go on to make about 10 films total with the majority of them being #SilentFilm
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