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14Mar
One Awesome Horn Section
Orson Welles, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy make a little music on the Fox lot circa 1943. Welles was filming Jane Eyre, and Laurel and Hardy Jitterbugs at the time. [via]
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17Jul
More Dangerous Than Dynamite!
Ladies, if you insist on doing your dry cleaning with gasoline, we strongly urge you to watch this brief film right now. We here at Jim Dandy’s Dry Cleaning want you to value your lives more than the few dollars
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