This was my first time viewing Coy Watson Jr. as a kid in A Nick-of-Time Hero

Before watching this short on YouTube, I knew Coy Watson Jr. As someone involved in the "Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel" short films about movie stars outside their sets shown in silent home movie-style footage with narration. Here, he's a pre-teen orphan who after getting in trouble, takes a train ride with his dog to a rich mansion where a girl near his age lives. He manages to save her a couple of times which gets him some rewards...Some good visual gags permeate this one with a nice happy ending. The girl was played by Doreen Turner who would years later play Mary Jane in the Buster Brown silent comedy series. The version I watched had no music score making it completely silent. So on that note, I say give A Nick-of-Time Hero a look. P. S. A crow in this short is actually called "Jim Crow" in the intertitles. Obviously, that wouldn't go well today...

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