Grandpa's Picture Party presents Chip the Wooden Man

GRANDPA'S PICTURE PARTY

Silent Commercial film excerpt from Kinex Studios
Release date: late 1920's or early 1930's
Date of filmprint: Unknown
Chip the Wooden Man in "The Magic Wand"

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Chip is hiking towards "The Wishing Land" when he inadvertently liberates a kind witch from an old tree trunk. She graciously offers him a lift on her broomstick. After a bumpy landing the witch reveals herself to be a beautiful enchantress and lends her wand to Chip. With it he conjures an animated hobbyhorse to speed him further on his journey.

Chip the Wooden Man was the star of a now-forgotten series produced by Kinex Studios in Hollywood during the silent era. This one appears to have been an early talkie since there are lengthy sequences of the characters conversing with well-articulated mouth movements (atypical of pre-sound animation). A search on the web found other films in the Chip series but not this one - could this be the only surviving fragment of an otherwise lost film?






Chip the Wooden Man was the star of a now-forgotten series produced by Kinex Studios in Hollywood during the silent era. This one appears to have been an early talkie since there are lengthy sequences of the characters conversing with well-articulated mouth movements (atypical of pre-sound animation). A search on the web found other films in the Chip series but not this one - could this be the only surviving fragment of an otherwise lost film?