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1910Thanhouser Company250 feetComedy

The Old Shoe Came Back

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Bowers’ notes

This filler was appended to the end of the 750-foot film, A 29-Cent Robbery. Apparently, the Thanhouser Company did not issue any information concerning this film; or at least none has been seen in a perusal of contemporary trade journals.

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1910 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Old Shoe Came Back”. thanhouser.org/films/the-old-shoe-came-back/

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