The Columbia Comedy Shorts: Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958

by Ted Okuda, Edward Watz

Overview

Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood’s finest comics (the Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, others). Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, the book chronicles the history of all, including interviews with the veterans. The filmography covers all of the 526 two-reelers: credits, date, synopsis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476610108
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	10/29/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Ted Okuda is a Chicago-based film historian whose articles have appeared in such publications as Nostalgia Digest, Filmfax, and Classic Images. Edward Watz, of Morganville, New Jersey, has written a number of film magazine articles. He is the coauthor of a book on Columbia's comedy shorts.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v
Foreword vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1

1 A Historical Overview 3
2 The Comedy Shorts Department: A Close-up 20
3 The Series 51
4 Television and Theatrical Revivals 195
5 Selected Biographies 197

Bibliography 249
Index 251

Editorial Reviews

recommended

Choice

well organized...lively and entertaining...most informative

ARBA

valuable...fantastic nuggets of information

PlanNineCrunch

recommended”—Choice; “well organized…lively and entertaining…most informative”—ARBA; “valuable...fantastic nuggets of information”—PlanNineCrunch; “way overdue.... Superb research is evident throughout...the rare stills reproduced here are just another reason for fans of Golden Age comedy to hunt the book down now”—Film Review.

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