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Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Silent Beauties has posted a 1909 short, "Mr. Flip" filmed at Chicago's Argyle-based Essanay Studios. Of note: it's the first known film to use the pie-in-the-face gag. [via]

 
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