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Auction History Result 8z1080 HE COULDN'T HELP IT LC 1927 Charley Bowers standing on table serving food to everyone, rare! Date Sold 6/10/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) He Couldn't Help It, the 1927 Charles R. Bowers silent comedy short starring Charles R. Bowers (billed as "Charley Bowers"), Corinne Powers, May Dean, George Williams, and Roy Applegate. Note that this was the tenth in the Whirlwind Comedies series. Note that Charley Bowers was a remarkable man, who is sadly completely forgotten today, except by major movie and cartoon buffs. He was born in 1877, and as a child, he worked in circus acts and also was a bronco buster! He became a cartoonist and was involved in early movie cartoons, writing, producing, and directing the entire Mutt and Jeff series of cartoons in the 1920s. In 1925, he became fascinated with stop-motion photography and he invented a new process that made it work much better, and allowed "animated" stop-motion creations to be side-by-side with live action (and this was years prior to the stop-motion used in King Kong in 1933)! Between 1925 and 1928, he made 43 silent comedy shorts using his techniques, and he appeared in many of them, often as an inventor. In 1930, he made his first sound comedy short, "It's a Bird", and it was many decades ahead of its time, and sadly, it did not get the acclaim it should have received, and Bowers' career after this time was pretty limited, only making a few more films. He passed away in 1946, after a long illness. He (and his movies) certainly deserves to be re-discovered by present day fans of film, cartoons, and stop-motion! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we received this lobby card! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. The card was folded down the center at one time and it is separating at the top and bottom of that fold. Note that this card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades 
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