Comedy Cavalcade (1973)

A feature-length compilation of representative work of top comedians of the '30s. The feature, in black and white, offers Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, The Ritz Brothers, Bert Lahr, Andy Clyde and Willie Howard, and is being packaged with two shorts made by baby Shirley Temple, made before her days as the leading child star, for a total of 153 minutes (the Temples run 21 minutes separately). Beginning and ending with dialect comic Howard, the footage is culled from shorts made by Educational Pictures between 1931 and 1938. The film was structured so that sections can be removed or switched at the theatre's discretion.