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Date edge code is 1920

This is a very short fragment only a few seconds long. The frame closeups show what it consists of.

Any ideas about who the actors may be or the title of the film?

In the first frame, the second gent from the left kind of looks like Gus Leonard. Can't tell for sure, but it could be him. If so, perhaps this is a Roach comedy as Gus worked there a lot.

Could the girl be Constance Talmadge? If so, the frame could be from "The Egyptian Mummy" (1914). If Jim is right and we can see Gus Leonard, it may be from "The Missing Mummy" (1916).

Could the girl be Constance Talmadge? If so, the frame could be from "The Egyptian Mummy" (1914). If Jim is right and we can see Gus Leonard, it may be from "The Missing Mummy" (1916).

Could be her.

I think these frames are more likely from a serial chapter than a comedy short... but who knows.

In any case, they're definitely not from The Egyptian Mummy, a film that can be seen in its entirety on my Nickelodia #1 DVD.

Looks like late '10s/early '20s. Although the scientists are dressed funny, I agree with Chris that it looks like a serial.

When did the Egyptian mummy craze start? I always assumed it was with the Tut discovery in 1922. Was it going before then?

When did the Egyptian mummy craze start? I always assumed it was with the Tut discovery in 1922. Was it going before then?

Mummy-mania goes back further than that; Theophile Gautier published mummy stories in....ummm...I think it was the 1860s, but don't quote me. Excitement over the Tut discovery was part of an orientalist craze that took place in the latter part of the 19th/early 20th century. Well, that, and it was also a really fabulous find, one of the last great moments in Pillage Archaeology.

Fred

Thanks Fred, I'll quote you

Mummy mania probably had its modern origins in the 1790s when Napoleon invaded, Egypt to be followed shortly by the English. The translations by rival French and British efforts kept up public interest for another thirty years.

Hello everyone. Been a while since I was last here.
But I had to chime in when I saw Dino's frame grabs.
Tho I don't recognize the film, I do agree it looks like Gus Leonard in the beard; and I'm pretty sure the girl is Molly Malone; and the one gent with the extra large Harold Lloyd horn-rims looks like Paddy McQuire.
Could be a Roach comedy...

SteveR

I never got a notification of your post. Thanks for the ID.

The guy second from the left, with a bit of black moustache showing through his fake long white beard ... could that be George Rowe?

Jim

I think this might be the German film Das Geheimnis der Mumie (1921). The woman in frame two could be Aud Egede Nissen, and the gentleman kneeling towards the mummy, at right, in the last frame definitely looks like Victor Janson.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

spadeneal

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