A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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His Busy Hour
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by [?] Albert Ballin?

Cast: Albert Ballin [the hermit]

Produced by James Spearing and Bertha Lincoln Heustis. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film features a cast of deaf actors in a film made for general audiences. The film was never officially released. The film was shown in 1926 to a deaf audience at the Lexington School for the Deaf in New York, New York, for fundraising purposes. A print of the film was recovered in the late 1980s.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 April 2024.

References: Schuchman-Hollywood pp. 23, 24b, 27, 38, 112 : with additional information provided by Matthew S. Moore.