Robert Youngson
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Robert Youngson (November 27, 1917 – April 8, 1974) was a film producer, director, and screenwriter, specializing in reviving antique silent films.
Robert George Youngson, born in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree in business administration. He entered the film business in 1941, writing newsreel scripts. In 1948 Warner Bros. hired him to produce a series of short subjects about sports. Most of these were straight roundups of current sporting events, but in some of them Youngson indulged his fascination with antique newsreels of the 1920s, and included vintage sports footage in the new productions. This led to Youngson writing and producing a long series of historical short subjects for Warners, two of which won him Academy Awards. Most of these films took an affectionate look back at the fads and lifestyles of the 1920s. Youngson's narration was nostalgic in tone, unlike the facetious commentaries that usually accompanied silent-film revivals like Gaslight Follies (1945) and Warners' compilations of Mack Sennett comedies. Youngson also produced a feature-length documentary for Warners, Fifty Years Before Your Eyes (1950).
Warners discontinued live-action short subjects in 1956 and released Youngson, forcing him to work as an independent producer. He assembled a full-length feature of silent-comedy highlights, The Golden Age of Comedy (1958). This was a triumphant success, earning rave reviews from national columnists and receiving network exposure on TV talk shows. He followed this with When Comedy Was King (1960) and six more vintage-comedy anthologies, the last being released in 1970.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Productor, Director, Escritor
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Escritor, Director
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
Director
The Golden Age of Comedy
Director
30 Years of Fun
Escritor, Director
When Comedy Was King
Director, Escritor
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Escritor, Director
This Mechanical Age
Productor, Director
Fifty Years Before Your Eyes
Director
Blaze Busters
Director
Spills and Chills
Director, Escritor
4 Clowns
Director
Gadgets Galore
Director, Escritor, Editor, Productor
World of Kids
Director
When the Talkies Were Young
Escritor, Productor, Director
I Never Forget a Face
Escritor, Director, Productor
Crashing the Water Barrier
Production Supervisor
Look at Life: Lighter than Air
Director
Cavalcade of Girls
Director, Escritor