Roseha wrote:I ordered two!
You had me at the cover image, Rodney. I have never seen that great still from Sherlock, Jr. before.
Ooh! Then I can guarantee you that you also haven't seen the (somewhat overlapping) shot for January, from the same film, but showing more musicians. Tease, tease. Thanks to the George Eastman Museum for both of these.
The January photo, like the cover photo, doesn't appear in the released film.
In fact, with this photo of Buster in Sherlock Jr. costume playing piano with Kathryn McGuire, plus one of him in the same costume lounging on a tiger-skin rug, plus one of Buster in projectionist costume sitting in a pile of jumbled film, plus one of Buster at the ticket booth trying to buy a ticket, I'm not aware of any other silent film with more publicity stills that are NOT from the actual film as released. I suppose that's a lesson for people trying to reconstruct lost films from the surviving stills...