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Auction History Result 9y730 NOW YOU TELL ONE LC 1926 Charley Bowers short, wild image of man with head in cannon, rare! Date Sold 10/9/2018 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) Now You Tell One, the 1926 Charles R. Bowers & Harold L. Muller silent comedy short starring Charles R. Bowers (billed as "Charley Bowers"). 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 that eMoviePoster.com auctioned a one-sheet from Charles Bower's sole talking feature film, "It's a Bird", in June 2017, and at that time, we noted that we had never auctioned even a single lobby card from any of his 43 silent comedy shorts. But in July 2017, we were consigned a card from the movie, "Goofy Birds", and now we have been consigned this lobby card from "Now You Tell One", so this is no longer true! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is an incredibly rare lobby card from one of the short films made by Charley Bowers (see above). It has a wonderful image of a man with his head inside a cannon barrel, and a second man who appears to be about to set it off! If anyone knows more about this short, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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: very good. Note that this lobby 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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