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Skinner's Big Idea, the 1928 Lynn Shores silent business screwball comedy ("More howls than Skinner's dress suit"; "From the story by Henry Irving Dodge"; a wacky story of a man whose bosses take a vacation and leave him in charge of their company, first telling him to fire three over the hill employees; instead, he hired a chorus girl to get the older men interested in living again, and then he himself takes a vacation, and while he is gone, the employees manage to land a giant contract, which saves the day!) starring Bryant Washburn ("The original Mr. Skinner"; in the title role as Skinner), William Orlamond, James Bradbury Sr., Robert Dudley, Ole. M. Ness, and Charles Wellesley. Note that Bryant Washburn starred in Skinner's Dress Suit in 1917, and two sequels were quickly made. In 1928, 11 years later, Joseph Kennedy had the idea of reviving the character, and the result was this movie, and Washburn was billed as "The Original Mr. Skinner", so moviegoers would know he had returned to the role, but apparently, the movie was not that successful, since there were no more in this series. Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Important Added Info: Note that glass slides were designed to be put in a special projector that would project the image onto a movie screen (they use exactly the same concept as 35mm slides). We have taken a digital photo of each that shows the general condition of the overall slide and holder, and we have also made a digital scan that shows the glass image well, but does not show the holder (except as a dark outline).

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