A provisional list of titles for this year’s Slapsticon festival has been published. The annual festival of early film comedy takes place this year 17-20 July, Arlington, Virginia. The festival site says that the programme is still being selected, but nevertheless they are already promising (subject to change, of course) a remarkable line-up:

* Why Detectives Go Wrong (1928) — Poodles Hanneford
* Springtime Saps (1929) — Snub Pollard, Marvin Loback
* Winning Winnie (1926) — Ethelyn Gibson
* Three Stooges Rarity Show, hosted by Paul Gierucki
* Sally of the Sawdust (1925) — W.C. Fields
* Number One (1915) — Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
* Pretzel and Flanagan (1914) — Lloyd Hamilton
* Taking Things Easy (1919) — Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran
* Nearly Spliced (1916) — Leon Errol
* Mishaps of Musty Suffer: Going Up (1916) — Harry Watson Jr.
* All Jazzed Up (1919) — Dan Russell, Hughey Mack
* It’s a Hard Life (1915) — Heinie and Louie (Jimmy Aubrey and Walter Kendig)
* The Bogus Booking Agents (1916) — Ham and Bud
* Sweeney’s Christmas Turkey (1913) — Hughey Mack
* Billy McGrath on Broadway (1913) — Augustus Carney
* Monkey Shines (1922) — Campbell Comedy
* The Tin Hoss (1925) — Hey Fellas
* Open Spaces (1926) — Malcolm “Big Boy” Sebastian
* A Pleasant Journey (1923) — Our Gang
* Among the Mourners (1915) — Chester Conklin, Syd Chaplin
* Are Waitresses Safe? (1917) — Ben Turpin, Charlie Murray
* Trimmed in Gold (1925) — Billy Bevan
* A Rainy Knight (1925) — Raymond Mckee, Eugenia Gilbert
* Taxi Dolls (1929) — Jack Cooper
* Doubling in the Quickies (1932) — Lloyd Hamilton, Marjorie Beebe
* Vacation Waves (1928) — Edward Everett Horton
* The Golf Bug (1923) — Monty Banks
* Golf Widows (1928) — Harrison Ford, Vernon Dent, Will Stanton
* Councel on de Fence (1934) — Harry Langdon
* See America Thirst (1930) — Harry Langdon
* Rush Orders (1921) — Snub Pollard
* Sherlock Sleuth (1924) — Arthur Stone
* Rough on Romeo (1921) — Paul Parrott
* The Rummy (1933) — Taxi Boys
* Harry Langdon Documentary (Paul Killiam) — never released Paul Killiam documentary from the late 1950’s, featuring rare clips and an interview with Vernon Dent.
* The Silent Partner (1955) — Buster Keaton, Joe E. Brown
* The Scribe (1966) — Buster Keaton’s last film
* An Aerial Joyride (1916) — Raymond Griffith
* His Foot-Hill Folly (1917) — Raymond Griffith
* Changing Husbands (1924) — Raymond Griffith and Leatrice Joy
* The Barnyard (1923) — Larry Semon
* Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath (1928) — Dorothy Mackail, Jimmy Finlayson
* Grass Skirts (1930) — Lloyd Hamilton
* Share the Wealth (1936) — Andy Clyde
* Dumb’s the Word (1937) — Edgar Kennedy, Billy Franey
* Alibi Bye Bye (1935) — Clark and McCullough
* Fiddlin’ Around (1938) — Monty Collins, Tom Kennedy
* Pistol Packin’ Nitwits (1945) — Harry Langdon, El Brendel
* Dangerous Females (1929) — Marie Dressler, Polly Moran
* Tomalio (1933) — Roscoe Arbuckle
* The Brown Derby (1926) — Johnny Hines
* His Private Life (1926) — Lupino Lane
* No Father to Guide Him (1925) — Charley Chase