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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 22, 2011 19:14:44 GMT -5
I've been wondering recently if anyone here knows of any photos of Scooter Lowry that may still exist in some form. I've seen images online in various places of nearly all of the recurring Our Gang players, and for most of them there are a few photos of the quality standard that could have been used for studio publicity.
All of the photos of Scooter Lowry that I've seen online, though, are kind of grainy and not of very high resolution. Most of them, I'm sure, are screenshots from video recordings of the Our Gang films that he did. If there's something out there that's clearer, though, I'd be interested in seeing it. I have less of a true mental image of what Scooter Lowry actually looked like than any of the other Gangsters of the silent years.
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Post by mtw12055 on Jul 22, 2011 19:35:34 GMT -5
How would one be able to put images on the board?
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Post by rhapsody on Jul 22, 2011 20:12:25 GMT -5
Hopefully this will work:  |
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Post by rhapsody on Jul 22, 2011 20:23:35 GMT -5
A screen shot:  |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 22, 2011 20:37:05 GMT -5
Hopefully this will work: That's definitely the clearest picture of him that I've ever seen. He looks very different without his hat! Much thanks for the photos. I did find two decent looking photos with Scooter in them (though neither are close-ups), and one grainy looking photo (close-up). How would one be able to put images on the board? When I've put pictures up on here, I've clicked on "Reply", pushed the "Choose File" button just below the subject line, and then uploaded the picture from my computer. |
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Post by mtw12055 on Jul 22, 2011 21:38:40 GMT -5
Hopefully this will work: That's definitely the clearest picture of him that I've ever seen. He looks very different without his hat! Much thanks for the photos. I did find two decent looking photos with Scooter in them (though neither are close-ups), and one grainy looking photo (close-up). How would one be able to put images on the board? When I've put pictures up on here, I've clicked on "Reply", pushed the "Choose File" button just below the subject line, and then uploaded the picture from my computer. Thanks. And great images, rhapsody! |
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Post by zootmoney on Jul 23, 2011 4:30:49 GMT -5
If you look through the gallery at marykornman.com, there are some OG photos, as well as some vaudeville photos.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 24, 2011 23:09:54 GMT -5
While we're on this subject, might someone here know if a publicity quality photo image of Andy Samuel from his days with The Gang may still exist? As with Scooter Lowry, I don't believe that I've ever seen a real studio photo of Andy Samuel; all that I've seen are images lifted from the Our Gang films in which he appeared, and those tend to appear unfocused. I'm curious to see what he really looked like in a clear photo.
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Post by zootmoney on Jul 24, 2011 23:36:47 GMT -5
Scooter  Andy  |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 26, 2011 22:04:08 GMT -5
For some reason, I didn't notice these new pictures for a couple of days after you first posted them.
That really is a great shot of Scooter Lowry, probably the best I've ever seen! Did you find it on the Mary Kornman site?
The picture that has Andy Samuel in it is just about as clear as any that I've seen of him, though like most other photos that include him with the Our Gang cast, it's taken at somewhat of a distance. I've never had any luck in trying to locate a clear solo shot of him, or even just one that focuses up more closely, like the Scooter Lowry one that you found.
Well, thanks for tracking down those two pictures!
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Post by rhapsody on Jul 26, 2011 23:55:42 GMT -5
Now if we could only track down Scooter himself..... Bugs me that he can't be located. He shouldn't be this elusive.  |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 27, 2011 0:17:16 GMT -5
Even as difficult as it was to find Harry Spear, eventually it did happen. With Scooter Lowry, though, there's just been...nothing. I guess that we're reasonably confident of his first name actually having been Elmer, but there's no reliable birthdate for him, no easily visible thread of activity to trace after he departed The Gang... aside from that newspaper interview given in the 1950s, it's as if he just stepped off the face of the earth.
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Post by zootmoney on Jul 27, 2011 0:41:08 GMT -5
Those photos are actually mine, but have been uploaded to John Frank's Mary Kornman gallery. If you sitemail me your email address, I can send you a higher resolution copy of it. If I can locate it, I can scan a close-up of Andy. I think Bob DeMoss has the same photo. In fact it might be his on the site. I think I picked up mine after he sent me a copy of his. Towards the end of the gallery, there are several more vaudeville shots of Scooter, Mary, and sometimes Johnny.
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Post by zootmoney on Jul 27, 2011 1:21:17 GMT -5
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 27, 2011 2:35:03 GMT -5
As with the other pictures you've shown in this thread, the above is almost certainly the highest-resolution still image of Andy Samuel that I've seen. I don't think that I'd ever come across such a nice photo of him.
I'll send you a message, then, about the higher-resolution copy of the Scooter Lowry picture.
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