Very sad news. He was such a nice guy, and I too feared the worst when I did not hear from him in some time.

Presumably designed as a follow-up to CIMARRON (1930), THE CONQUERORS (1932) not only stars Richard Dix and Edna May Oliver, but has a number of shared technical credits (Edward Cronjager, Howard Estabrook, etc.) as well, including a Max Steiner score. ... Note - Marilyn Knowlden, who plays Dix's d...

Funnily enough, long after I wrote about The Case of Becky in that earlier article, I discovered it was one of the films my great-grandmother had seen and recorded in her diary for 1916 - https://brooksieatthemovies.weebly.com/july-1916.html . Pre-natal influence was another big theme of the teens ...

Funnily enough, long after I wrote about The Case of Becky in that earlier article, I discovered it was one of the films my great-grandmother had seen and recorded in her diary for 1916 - https://brooksieatthemovies.weebly.com/july-1916.html . Pre-natal influence was another big theme of the teens -...

Interesting question. There are no sound versions that I'm aware of, but there have been numerous revivals of the two plays on which the film was based, Erdgeist and Lulu . They seem to have a habit of being disastrous flops, unfortunately. Judy Davis played the title character in a 1981 Australian ...

Thanks, both of you. I checked my notes - the quote from Louis Reeves Harrison came from an article titled 'The Mind in Film', from the Moving Picture World of 11 July 1914 (an interesting read for many reasons, as it was a special issue designed to investigate current trends in the industry). It is...

Watching The Untouchables TV series, I'm constantly amused by the fact that every door has a window frame in it, but no window. The glass pane has been removed, presumably to avoid light reflections. Also noticeable in The Brady Bunch , where the kids carefully open an empty sliding door frame to g...

It is most likely The Romance of Elaine (1915). One of the most widely distributed stills of Pearl White featured her wearing the same outfit.

I've had some good results with what I'd consider a fairly conservative treatment. Just keeping the photos in a cool place for a few weeks relaxed them a lot; they were nearly semi-circular when I received them. The emulsion was in excellent condition - honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be...

The British Quota Act was a complicated beast. Especially early on, many companies couldn't navigate the intricacies and ended up producing films that didn't qualify under the very specific requirements of the legislation. A qualifying production had to employ a certain percentage of British subject...

It might be drifting from the topic a little, but pseudoscientific mental health stories were big in the teens, with a heavy emphasis on 'pseudoscientific'. It probably had something to do with the emergence of psychoanalysis as a discipline, but a lot more to do with the popular interest in parapsy...

Not absolutely sure I'll get to it in time, but I'll nominate Breakfast for Two (1937), which I got for Christmas.

There is a list of all the songs that appear in the AFI Catalog, under 'Credits': https://catalog.afi.com/Film/565-MELODY-PARADE.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-apted-dead-coal-miners-daughter-director-seven-up-documentarian-was-79-1292671 Director of many fine films such as The Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and longtime president of the Director's Guild, he will probably be best remembered for the famous Seven...

I had the Columbo board game as a kid. Fun game, but it was erm, somewhat obvious that Falk had refused to give the rights to his likeness:

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/20800/c ... ctive-game

In other words, it's the lost sound-on-film version of The Artist (2011)!

When I said I 'got' a couple of Warner Archives releases, I was being slightly misleading - I received an order slip saying they had been ordered. We only received a message that they had shipped this past weekend. I'm sure that this year's extra heavy Christmas rush, combined with short staffing du...

Alas, no (and my mother was and is an inveterate taper). The trouble is that The Goodies screened on weekday afternoons. You didn't tend to tape it - you plopped down your schoolbag and watched it. I probably saw the full original version of Kitten Kong a dozen times without even realising ...

As per the above, it was mainly Play School . There were a couple of old episodes that are probably seared onto my daughter's brain, in the same way that certain sequences of episodes of other shows are seared on mine, from watching the same video tape again and again as a child. I take out my video...

I got a couple of Warner Archive releases I've been hankering for, including Marie Antoinette (1938) (shut up, I love it) and, at the other end of the filmic scale, Kino's Madchen in Uniform (1931). You needn't apologize for Marie Antoinette . Okay, it has that starry-eyed bit at the start ("I'm go...

That one about the face light reminds of the way a single candle is lit, and the entire set lights up as if it's Times Square on any New Year's Eve other than 2020-21. There's also the reverse: the person who gets into bed and switches off a small bedside lamp. Out goes not only that paltry light, ...

YouTube recently took down a bunch of twenty-year-old children's TV shows from Australian television that sat there for seven years, of interest to nobody but me and my small child, so apparently it can take a while for sone rights holders to take notice. My partner will be very mad if she can't ge...

I got a couple of Warner Archive releases I've been hankering for, including Marie Antoinette (1938) (shut up, I love it) and, at the other end of the filmic scale, Kino's Madchen in Uniform (1931).

I can't believe that I never noticed a flu pandemic reference in It's A Wonderful Life (1946) until this year. Mr Gower, the pharmacist who accidentally gives a customer poison, is distracted because he's just received a letter saying that his son has died of influenza. The scene takes place in 1919...

Then the answer must lie in vigilance - they mustn't be a party to YouTube's automatic safeguards. Either somebody at Paramount will eventually notice, or someone will report a violation. YouTube recently took down a bunch of twenty-year-old children's TV shows from Australian television that sat th...

I vaguely remembered hearing about its premiere last year - there were a few articles about it. Some good photos in this one: https://www.dailynews.com/2019/04/30/%e ... ry-on-him/

His computer packed up a few weeks ago and he's waiting on a new one. He expects to be offline until mid January.

YouTube policy seems very erratic about taking down copyright violations; some go down immediately, some stay up there for years. I think it has to do with whether the rights holders are paying attention. This website - https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-youtube-removals - gi...

I might add that there was a major flub on the filmmaker's part regarding that party - the film shows it occurring at San Simeon. It was actually held at Marion's beach house in Santa Monica.

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There is also the comedy short There Ain't No Santa Claus (1926) with Charley Chase. I've heard rumors that it may be on the Silent Comedy Watch Party soon.

And, as per this thread, the rumors are correct!