| Back to the Farm | |
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.jpg) Babe Hardy and Bert Tracy in a publicity still from Back to the Farm | |
| Directed by | Will Louis and Joseph Levering |
| Written by | Will Louis |
| Produced by | Siegmund Lubin |
| Starring | Oliver Hardy Bert Tracy |
| Distributed by | Lubin Manufacturing Company |
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Running time | Listed "about 1,000 feet" (approximately 12 minutes)[1][2] |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Back to the Farm is a 1914 silent comedy short film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company and co-starring Oliver Hardy and Bert Tracy. It is the earliest Hardy film known to survive.
- ^ a b "LUBIN FILMS / Back to the Farm", The Lubin Bulletin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), August 29, 1914, p. [13]. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
- ^ Kawin, Bruce F. How Movies Work. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 46-47. According to this reference, a full 1000-foot reel of film in the silent era had a maximum running time of 15 minutes. Silent films were generally projected at a "standard" speed of 16 frames per second, much slower than the 24 frames of later sound films. The few Lubin comedy shorts surviving from this period run 10-12 minutes.