Movie Deals For Eight Dadamedy Shorts, 1919-1922.
BY BRYAN R. FARROW
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Title: Boos for 'Roos
Writer: Eddie Applebaum
Production Company: Flickering Light Films
Purchase Price: $10
Logline: Man sporting handlebar mustache boxes kangaroo for prize money. Loses fight, climbs into marsupial's pouch, transforms into fetus.
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Title: Sally's Strapping Suitor
Writer: Walter McGuirk
Production Company: Reel Delight Films
Purchase Price: $15
Logline: Man with suspenders courts blind girl selling flowers on a park bench. Girl regains sight, spends rest of reel mesmerized by pistons on a factory floor.
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Title: Birds of a Feather
Writer: Sam Chesterfield
Production Company: Celluloid Company of America
Purchase Price: $15
Logline: Man in porkpie hat takes job selling feather dusters door to door. First customer is a giant denuded bird, who thrashes him in a game of chess.
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Title: A Pennant Pickle
Writer: Harry Richards
Production Company: Rah Rah Films
Purchase Price: $20
Logline: Man wearing baggy pants tries out for local baseball team. While attempting to steal second base, discovers that field has turned into desert.
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Title: Four-Alarm Folly
Writer: Phineas T. Church
Production Company: The Sousaphone Company
Purchase Price: $12
Logline: Man in bowler hat joins city's fire brigade. First call is to rescue pair of scissors from tree.
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Title: No No Libretto
Writer: Bernie Hopkins
Production Company: Hopkins Film Company
Purchase Price: undisclosed
Logline: Man wearing shabby coat sneaks into opera house on opening night. Ravishes the soprano before audience of dolls with balloons for heads.
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Title: His Lucky Spin
Writer: G. Floyd Whittaker
Production Company: Swenson's Moving Pictures
Purchase Price: $11
Logline: Man wielding a dandy's cane tries roller-skating. Gets distracted by enormous pinwheel, crashes into bearded ballerina.
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Title: Soup D'Cure
Writer: Lyle Gibbons
Production Company: Silver Film Corporation
Purchase Price: $8
Logline: Man wearing vest waits on tables at upscale restaurant. Then just cut to obese matrons tossing medicine balls back and forth in slow motion.
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