The Golden age of comedy

A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films.

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"A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films."@en
"This collection of silent comedy's greatest moments includes Will Rogers' classic spoofs of Hollywood stars from the early 1900s and Laurel and Hardy's legendary pie fight from Battle of the Century. Also features excerpts from films starring Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, and the Keystone Kops. Produced by Robert Youngson."@en
"Excerpts from early comedy films, 1914-1929. Includes Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle, the Keystone Cops."@en
"Compiled from over 2000 reels, The golden age of comedy is a montage of outrageous slapstick humour that marked the highest point in film comedy."@en
"A documented insight into the history of the making of comedy films in Hollywood in the first half of the twentieth century."
"A compilation of American silent comedies from 1914 to 1929. Includes sequences showing Laurel and Hardy, Will Rogers, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, and the Keystone Cops."@en
"A compilation of American silent comedies from 1914 to 1929."@en
"A compilation of extracts from films with added commentary, music and effects produced at the Mack Sennett and Hal Roach Studios featuring: Laurel and Hardy (The Second Hundred Years, Two Tars, The Battle of the Century, You're Darn Tootin'); Billy Bevan (Circus Today); Will Rogers (Uncensored Movies); Ben Turpin in a send-up of The Merry Widow and an example of animal comedy featuring the dog-star Cameo. Also in early appearances in Sennett comedies are Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard, Harry Langdon, Charlie Chase, Andy Clyde and Charlie Murray in slapstick scenes."@en
"The great comedians of silent cinema are seen in clips from some of their funniest films."@en
"A documented insight into the history of comedy-making films in Hollywood from the early 1900's to the present. Includes sequences showing Laurel and Hardy, Will Rogers, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, and the Keystone Cops."
"A documented insight into the history of comedy-making films in Hollywood from the early 1900's to the present. Includes sequences showing Laurel and Hardy, Will Rogers, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, and the Keystone Cops."@en
"Includes excerpts from Circus today (1925), The merry widow (1925), The battle of the century (1927), The second hundred years (1927), Two tars (1928) and We faw down (1928)."