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Luke, Crystal Gazer

1916 film by Hal Roach

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3840537 ↗
Source-derived summary

Luke, Crystal Gazer is a 1916 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. A print exists.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Luke, Crystal Gazer” as 1916 film by Hal Roach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Luke, Crystal and Gazer.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Luke, Crystal and Gazer providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Luke, Crystal Gazer”, the useful work is to connect “1916 film by Hal Roach” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3840537. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Luke, Crystal Gazer”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Luke, Crystal Gazer primary sources, Luke, Crystal Gazer archive and Luke research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Luke, Crystal Gazer”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Luke, Crystal Gazer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.