Bathing girls, baseball on the beach, a fat man, a swimming race and a wild chase at the finish make up this Hallroom Boys Comedy..
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Picture, if you can, a sliver of nitrate whose emulsion still sizzles with Atlantic brine: Beach Nuts (1917) is that impossible artifact—eleven minutes of celluloid mischief so effervescent it threatens to pop the sprockets. It belongs to the Hallroom Boys, a duo whose fame once rivalled Two Little Imps yet who now w...
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Herman C. Raymaker
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" Picture, if you can, a sliver of nitrate whose emulsion still sizzles with Atlantic brine: Beach Nuts (1917) is that impossible artifact—eleven minutes of celluloid mischief so effervescent it threatens to pop the sprockets. It belongs to the Hallroom Boys, a duo whose fame once rivalled Two Little Imps yet who now wander the periphery of silent-comedy scholarship. Director-writer hyphenates remain stubbornly uncredited; only Sidney Smith’s elastic physiognomy survives as marquee bait. What li..."
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