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The Non-Stop Kid

1918 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3988511 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Non-Stop Kid is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Plot

Bebe plays a pretty young thing with several suitors, including Harold, competing to win her affections.

Cast

Harold Lloyd as Harold

Snub Pollard as Snub, the butler (as Harry Pollard)

Bebe Daniels as Miss Wiggle

William Blaisdell as Bebe's father

Sammy Brooks as Short bearded man

Billy Fay as Prof.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Non-Stop Kid” as 1918 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Non-Stop and film.

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—1918—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Non-Stop and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Non-Stop Kid”, the useful work is to connect “1918 film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3988511. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918.

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

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Non-Stop Kid”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Non-Stop Kid primary sources, The Non-Stop Kid archive and Non-Stop 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 “The Non-Stop Kid”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Non-Stop Kid” 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.