_Acknowledgments....
A special thanks goes out to the following folks for the help and support provided in putting this site together.
LES ADAMS
JERRY BECK
DAVID BRUSKIN
MARK CANTOR
BILL CAPPELLO
BILL CASSARA
RALPH CELENTANO
STEVE COX
HAL ERICKSON
RICHARD FINEGAN
BILL FUNT
BOB FURMANEK
PARRY HALL
BRITTANY HODGES
BRIAN KALLIES
RICK KLEIN
EVAN KRAMER
GARY LASSIN
SCOTT MacGILLIVRAY
KYLE McELRAVY
AARON NEATHERY
JAMES NEIBAUR
FRANK REIGHTER
JIM SEABURG
BRENT SEGUINE
RALPH SCHILLER
KEITH SCOTT
SAXON EMIL SITKA
SCOTTY SPIEGEL
TOMMY STATHES
MAURICE TERENZIO
BILL TELFER
Thank you to LEONARD MALTIN and his book SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS, which introduced me to several images and titles I knew I had to start digging up.
A very special and huge thank you to my friends TED OKUDA and EDWARD WATZ, authors of THE COLUMBIA COMEDY SHORTS, for allowing me to borrow from your book and for allowing me to use so much of your shared knowledge and information about these short-subjects throughout the pages of this website.
And...last but not least...a loving thank you to my father, ROBERT E HILBRICH, who I dedicate this site to.
My dad saw these little two-reelers first run when he was growing up in NW Indiana in the 1930's and 1940's. It was during an afternoon broadcast of COMEDY CLASSICS that he brought up folks like Andy Clyde, El Brendel and Buster Keaton and questioned why they (tv stations) never played their films.
With that question, my obsession with the short-subjects of Columbia Pictures was born.
LES ADAMS
JERRY BECK
DAVID BRUSKIN
MARK CANTOR
BILL CAPPELLO
BILL CASSARA
RALPH CELENTANO
STEVE COX
HAL ERICKSON
RICHARD FINEGAN
BILL FUNT
BOB FURMANEK
PARRY HALL
BRITTANY HODGES
BRIAN KALLIES
RICK KLEIN
EVAN KRAMER
GARY LASSIN
SCOTT MacGILLIVRAY
KYLE McELRAVY
AARON NEATHERY
JAMES NEIBAUR
FRANK REIGHTER
JIM SEABURG
BRENT SEGUINE
RALPH SCHILLER
KEITH SCOTT
SAXON EMIL SITKA
SCOTTY SPIEGEL
TOMMY STATHES
MAURICE TERENZIO
BILL TELFER
Thank you to LEONARD MALTIN and his book SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS, which introduced me to several images and titles I knew I had to start digging up.
A very special and huge thank you to my friends TED OKUDA and EDWARD WATZ, authors of THE COLUMBIA COMEDY SHORTS, for allowing me to borrow from your book and for allowing me to use so much of your shared knowledge and information about these short-subjects throughout the pages of this website.
And...last but not least...a loving thank you to my father, ROBERT E HILBRICH, who I dedicate this site to.
My dad saw these little two-reelers first run when he was growing up in NW Indiana in the 1930's and 1940's. It was during an afternoon broadcast of COMEDY CLASSICS that he brought up folks like Andy Clyde, El Brendel and Buster Keaton and questioned why they (tv stations) never played their films.
With that question, my obsession with the short-subjects of Columbia Pictures was born.
