I purchased a dvd transfer of a two reel silent comedy from the LOC last year and when I first saw the film, total running time of 18 minutes.When I received the dvd, that same film was transferred to a whopping running time of 25 minutes, which basically sucked the life out of reel 2 that featured ...

Also available on the site is the Fox Sunshine Comedy, HER FIRST KISS ('19) which this probably the best looking preserved print of a Sunshine comedy I ever seen.Should say that the site slows down these films.

I think Ted Cruz is a Marcel Perez fan.lol

I was planning on purchasing some silent and sound comedy shorts through the LOC, but decided to hold back for a while dye to the archive being closed due to the government shutdown.Once that's ends, I can only imagine on how backed up orders will be and will take longer to get the transfers... Than...

I basically done business with LOC on pre 1923 silent comedy titles and when I had to do a copyright search on some silent and sound comedy shorts, I took the cheaper route and had an independent film researcher to do the copyright search for $125.00.When I first contacted the archive about the char...

Just tried the link and all it says that the site is temporarily down.It's been doing this for the last year or so. There is a question in regards to the Baby Peggy shorts that will be presented on the disc. 1.Will all three shorts have recreated intertitles, plus opening and closing title cards? 2....

Problem with the link address, does Milestone still have a web site up and running?

Heard the Sennett Collection has been put on hiatus.

I do business with the LOC in obtaining PD films for transfers and they are great to deal with.You also might want to try UCLA, as I heard they do transfers as well.One archive that doesn't do transfers of their film holdings is MoMA, for which is a real shame since they have a great collection.Does...