The Motion Picture Career of Billy B. Van as Reported in the Trade Press, 1915 - 1948

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Film Flams - The Janitor's Birthday
Picture-Play Weekly, 1915-10-09, Page 25

Mentions Billy B. Van’s performance in the comedy The Janitor’s Birthday at the Lake Sunapee studio, describing a scene that reportedly caused repeated retakes due to laughter on set.

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  • It is unusual, indeed, for the director, or the camera man, to ever laugh at a comedy seen, but at the Lake Sunapee studio, Billy B. Van is so excruciatingly funny in ”The Janitor’s Birthday,” where he rolls downstairs, aided by the butt end of a goat, that the situation had to be retaken three times, owing to the fits of laughter indulged in by the operators.



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See Also:

1915-07-10 Early Date Is Fixed by Van for Equity Production

1915-09-04 Film Flams - Billy B. Van in Sunapee

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