Advert for first issue of Film Fun

[stevezodiac]

Among my purchases at the comic mart last week was a copy of Butterfly & Firefly no. 146 which has this nice advert for Film Fun no. 1. It has occurred to me that I don't have a copy of the book of Film Fun so cannot check if this ad was reproduced therin. However I am now bidding on the book on ebay so hopefully will have one in my possession in due course.

[Power fan]

Fascinating! Winkle, the Pathe Mirth Wizard, looks rather like Harold Lloyd, but I don't believe that it is him. Who was he?

[Niblet]

Apparently Winkle was a character that Harold Lloyd played in a few films before he made the famous Safety Last (which premiered a couple of year's after Film Fun's debut, I think). It's rather strange that all the other features in Film Fun seem to bear the actor's name rather than the character.

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual ... iew=credit

[Niblet]

I've heard of Chester Conklin, but not Charlie Conklin, and a quick Google didn't turn up any Charlie Conklin results that seemed relevant. Did the comic rename him for some reason?

[stevezodiac]

Same goes for Lawrence Semon who i always remember being referred to as Larry Semon. Perhaps some of them hadn't quite established their screen personas then.

[Kashgar]

In January, to celebrate Film Fun's 90th birthday, I did a little feature on here talking about the film stars that appeared in the first issue amongst other things. Charlie and Chester Conklin were two different people BTW.

[Power fan]

Thanks to Niblet for clearing up the Harold Lloyd query - I should have read Kashgar's very informative earlier thread.