Brand new lab prints may take 3 to 4 weeks to print. All prints are made from original 16mm negatives or from the best surviving materials. Because of the licensing agreement, copyrighted Hal Roach titles are restricted to the USA and Canada.

Listed as "New Releases" in 1999

FISH HOOKY (1933)
Our Gang gets a day off from school to visit an amusement pier. One of the very best in the series features baby Spanky and former Little Rascals, now young adults, Joe Cobb, Farina, Mickey Daniels as a truant officer and Mary Kornman as the teacher. We have forgotten to list this great title as being available for the last ten years! $185.

MAIL AND FEMALE (1937)
One of the best Roach one-reel Our Gangs made shortly before the series was sold to MGM. Spanky forms a He-Man Woman-Haters Club with Alfalfa as president, but Alf has his eye on Darla. $98.

THE GOAT (1920)
One of the fastest and funniest Keaton 2-reelers as Buster is mistaken for an escaped criminal. He meets a girl and the chase continues until her father turns out to be the head cop! $185.

PASS THE GRAVY (1928)
Hilarious Max Davison two-reeler in which Max invites the neighbors for dinner and accidentally serves up their own prize chicken with tag attached. There were some minor glitches (Yikes, a hair!!!) in the only known print from which this was taken. $185

BATH TUB PERILS (1917)
18 min., silent. Mack Sennett comedy. $185.

A KNIGHT OF THE TRAILS (1915)
20 min., silent. Action-packed western short directed by and starring the great William S. Hart. Produced by Thomas Ince. $185

SON-OF-A-GUN (1919)
50 min., silent. The last feature film directed by and starring Broncho Billy Anderson was a big hit at Cinefest 21. Billy shoots up a town and is banished to the next county. When he befriends a young man being cheated by gamblers and the boy's father and, of course, sister, he must return to save the day. $450

EYES OF JULIA DEEP (1918)
50 min., silent. Mary Miles Minter (key figure in the Wm. Desmond Taylor murder) stars in this romantic comedy-drama directed by Lloyd Ingraham. Shop girl Julia befriends a young man who has squandered his inheritance and considers suicide. $450

THE WHISTLE (1921)
58 min., silent. William S. Hart gives an excellent dramatic performance in an offbeat role as a steel mill worker whose son is killed in an accident. $495

CONRAD IN QUEST OF HIS YOUTH (1920)
65 min., silent. Thomas Meighan returns to his childhood London home with three cousins and reminisces. This warm and wonderful film was directed by William DeMille. Prints contain some sequences with nitrate deterioration. $525

MISS LULU BETT (1921)
65 min., silent. Directed by William C. deMille. Lois Wilson stars as an unattractive spinster forced to work as a household drudge. $525

CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM (1924, USSR)
85 min. with music track. Directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky. This boisterous comedy satirizes Soviet life and filmmaking in the 1920's. $650

NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922)
Excellent silent print of Flaherty's classic documentary about an Eskimo family's struggle to survive. About 65 min. $550

BEDTIME WORRIES (1933)
Spanky sleeps alone for the first time... or tries to... in this classic Our Gang. $185

NIGHT OWLS (1930)
Cop Edgar Kennedy persuades Laurel and Hardy to rob the chief's house so Edgar can arrest them and make good! Oddly, they agree. $185

SODA SQUIRT (1933)
Excellent Flip the Frog cartoon by UB Iwerks with some Hollywood caricatures. $85

COAL FACE (1935, Britain)
12 min. Documentary by Alberto Cavalcanti to music by Benjamin Britten. $110

A further sampling of recent releases

CHARLES PEACE (1905, England)
10 min., silent. Directed by William Haggar. One of the true masterpieces of primitive cinema anywhere. Shows episodes in the life of 19th century super thief Charles Peace. $145.

A CORNER IN WHEAT (1909)
Gorgeous print from 35mm of DW Griffith's landmark social drama, taken from two Frank Norris stories. $98.

ONE IS BUSINESS, THE OTHER CRIME
Another important Griffith social drama, from 35mm, photographed by Billy Bitzer. $98

THE BURGLAR'S DILEMMA (1912)
Excellent Griffith short with Lionel Barrymore, HB Walthall, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron. $98

INTOLERANCE (1926 reissue version)
Superb quality silent print of the version prepared by DW Griffith for the 1926 reissue. This version, which is now regarded as the "standard edition" plays much better than the original 1916 film. However, the 1916 version is still available from Blackhawk and it has a music track. Please specify which version you want. Either: $1100.

CIVILIZATION (1916)
Produced by Thomas Ince. Directed by Raymond B. West & others. Delirious but awe-inspiring melodrama depicting the horrors of war and intended to reinforce American neutrality at that time. Fine print from nitrate fine grain of the slightly shortened reissue version. $475

THE CHEAT (1915)
50 min. Beautiful silent print of Cecil B DeMille's film noted for its high-contrast lighting and for the erotic allure of Sessue Hayakawa who brands Fannie Ward as his property, then attempts to seduce and possess her. $450

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920)
50 min. The famous John Barrymore version. Music score by Gaylord Carter. $450

OUTSIDE THE LAW (1919)
Directed by Tod Browning. Lon Chaney delivers a dual performance as kindly Ah Wing, student of Confucian philosophy, and as murderous Mike Silva of the San Francisco underworld. A fine copy of the only known nitrate original, but it does have deterioration in some scenes. Music and effects track. $650

THE IRON MASK (1929)
98 min., silent. Douglas Fairbanks' last silent feature is a superbly lavish swashbuckler, a direct sequel to "Three Musketeers." $795

THIS WAS NEW YORK, 1900
Glimpses of New York City in the 1900-1904 period, from paper prints. $185

A VISIT TO LOS ANGELES & A TRIP UP MOUNT LOWE (1916)
The first half shows business and residential landmarks of L.A.; the second half takes us up the cog railway and on the electric trolley to the White City on Mt. Lowe. $145

CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATE
9 min., silent. A fond and charming look at San Francisco in the 1920's. $98

THE BOAT (1921)
One of Buster Keaton's best two-reelers, in which he launches and later loses the infamous boat "Damfino." Taken from an original 35mm print that had a few blemishes, lines and bits out of frame, but still vastly superior in quality to any previously offered prints. Musical score by Gaylord Carter. $185

RING UP THE CURTAIN (1919)
Harold Lloyd one-reeler with Bebe Daniels and Snub Pollard. The action centers on a small-town vaudeville house. Much funnier than most of Lloyd's one-reelers. Excellent quality from 35mm nitrate. Music track. $98

BE MY KING (1929)
Lupino Lane and Wallace Lupino are adrift on the remains of a house in the middle of the ocean and washed up on a cannibal island. Excellent print. $185.

DRY AND THIRSTY
Billy Bletcher comedy about prohibition from the year the United States went dry. Fine print from nitrate. $98

RED NOSES (1932)
Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd comedy. They have colds and go to a Turkish bath. Hal Roach production for sale only in USA and Canada. 21 min. Hal Roach production restricted for sale in USA & Canada. $185

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE (1935)
Charley Chase comedy. Charley plays two parts, himself and hispappy. A trip to forgotten relatives in Kentucky motivates hillbilly comedy and music. Hal Roach production restricted for sale in USA & Canada. $185

MODELING (1921)
Koko the Clown cartoon by and with Max Fleischer. $90

WINSOR McKAY & HIS ANIMATED PICTURES (1911)
Winsor McKay's first film. McKay wagers with John Bunny and other Vitagraph stars that he can animate his Little Nemo character. The cartoon is shown being prepared in the studio and is then run at the end of the reel. From a 35mm print. $80

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