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I've heard nothing of May McAvoy, either!

Brooksie

Jack Nicholson. I thought that Cuckoo's Nest would have been a good silent picture. I've sometimes thought that re-editing a modern film as a silent with intertitles would be an interesting exercise. It wouldn't work at all with some films, but for others, it could be very effective. Ang Lee's `Lus...

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Of course, since it's in Wikipedia, it's now in lots of Macintyre's obituaries, like most of the other untrue facts of his life, and will live forever. I was surprised to see that he has his own entry in Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Gwynplaine_MacIntyre ). Just imagine doing the fact...

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The 2 disk Special Edition of `The Wizard of Oz' also has a documentary on the restoration of Technicolor films. It's quite ingenious - because there are three negatives (one red, one green, one blue), they are able to compare the negatives to one another, and automatically remove any element that a...

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Thanks for the tip and the link, guys! I just snagged the MGM silents value pak, six films (five of which I haven't seen but sound great) for $65.65 including tax and (free) shipping! I only wish I had the $$ for the Garbo silents pak and Robinson pak. Already have the Chaney set coming at least. T...

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I was looking again at that colour film footage of Murray that turned up a while ago ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RTnd3Smy8 ). She speaks several times in this footage, and her mouth movements make it look very much like she is lisping (see in particular around 2:48 ). It's possible that she h...

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It's amazing how many remakes are just that! On the other hand, it is the THIRD version of "The Maltese Falcon" that is considered the classic. Also the third version of THE AWFUL TRUTH, previously filmed as a silent in 1923 and as a talkie in 1929 starring Henry Daniell and Ina Claire, before the ...

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I understand that the existence of these films was known and thus not considered "lost" but has anyone ever had reasonable access to them? If not, that's as good as lost in my book and I'm thrilled. I agree. Perhaps we need an additional designation - `Inaccessible'. There are tons of films that ar...

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*These finds are wonderful, but we seriously can't expect to find more treats like this as time goes on, or can we? I always said, if or when they find LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT it will be mislabeled in a place that's unexpected but right where it should be. The ability of film archives have to actuall...

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The Internet Archive allows you to download out-of-copyright music (http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio) - it's not very orderly, but do a search on `78rpm', `1920s' or the artist you're interested in and you should find what you're after.

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sepiatone wrote:Fanny Brice made a career out of baby talk. She had a character called "Baby Snooks".

... and, dear God, she's almost unlistenable today. I don't know whether it's just changes of tastes, but yechhh ...

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The Australian and New Zealand National Libraries have recently begun digitising their newspaper collection - it's terrific to have such easy access to primary sources. Try a search on El Brendel on the following: Trove (Australian National Library): http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper Papers Past (Ne...

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I used to live in White Plains, so I'd love to know where that farmhouse was! There is one you must definitely add -`Alchemist's Corner' at 132 W 4th Street, New York, Barrymore's home between 1917-1920. It was the subject of a play, and an interesting article about its composition - http://www.newy...

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It's currently available on Netflix Streaming. Needless to say, James Stewart and Simone Simon aren't Farrell and Gaynor, but if you take the movie on its own terms, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Simon is especially good, as is Henry King's direction. And if you've seen Stewart in THE SHO...

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Thanks for all of the information!! Geesh, if this is truly the same kid from the movies... how depressing. Super depressing. Especially when you consider that the director of the Buster Brown series, Gus Meins, also took his own life. It seems surprising that the media wouldn't have sought to sens...

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Has anyone seen it? If so - is it worth tracking down? I know it wasn't well received at the time, but I'd be interested to see whether it stands on its own merits. It seems a particularly strange silent to remake - or perhaps I should say that it feels like a quintessentially silent film. Just imag...

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Do we have an ETA on when this material will be processed and made avaialble - either online or in print? I asked about that ad they didn't know. If anything, I think it would be published in print form before it were to go online - but that is just a guess. thomas Surely it'll be zhushed up into a...

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I recently found Alexander Walker's The Shattered Silents , and thought it was an excellent and reasonably thorough overview of those couple of years when talkies took over the motion picture industry, well reported. Though it's obviously heavy on the workings of sound at the end of the twenties, t...

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I became curious about this myself during the recent campaign to preserve the sign from nearby development. The sign's official website ( http://www.hollywoodsign.org/movies.html ) claims it wasn't in a feature film until 1954 (at which point the `land' had already been taken down), but I felt certa...

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What is curious is that the elements for a sound film were lost by the studio. But again, they could have succumbed to decomp, vault fires and floods, ambitious studio execs who couldn't even see the film as an asset and ordered it junked, legal imbroglios. Don't forget that screen musicals became ...

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Brooksie, Thank you! That is from that film. The strange part is, when I look up Benjamin Christensen's "Mysterious X" it has a whole different story that doesn't mention the man with the cape. Maybe I am just missing too much of the film for it to make sense. Yes, now that I've started to poke aro...

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It would appear to be the Danish film `The Mysterious X' (Det hemmelighedsfulde X), but with Spanish titles. There are some narrative postcards (including one of the creepy gent with the bat wings) at http://www.prospectosdecine.com/?nav=lista&buscado=&buscar=&letra=E&listar=&grup=&pagina=10 . Secon...

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METROPOLIS

Sunday 10th October at 4:30pm

Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2601

Australian premiere limited season of the newly restored version. Special ticket prices apply: $15 adults, $12.50 concession.

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3 Wednesday 1:15 AM When Comedy Was King (1959) A compilation of funny moments from the top comedians of the silent era. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC 4:30 AM Show People (1928) In this silent film, a small-town girl tries to make it in Hollywood. Cast: Marion Davies, William Haines, Polly Moran. Dir: King ...

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That most likely narrows it down to pre-1927, because that's when Paramount became known as Paramount Famous Players Lasky. It would also tend to date it back to the earlier 1920s, given that she went to England for a couple of years and then freelanced until sound came and she got her contract with...

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The Story of the Kelly Gang Recently, I came as close as you can do to seeing this one. I met a collector who had a booklet that was given out during the original screenings - it was designed to be referred to in lieu of intertitles, and contains lots of pictures from sequences that did not survive...

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Possibly the confusion arose from the way that when a popular song came out in those days, a number of different artists would record competing versions. I can think of half a dozen versions of Am I Blue or Pagan Love Song that came out alongside the `official' version.

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The only photos I've ever seen of Betty Compson with long hair have been in the very early twenties (1920-22), if that narrows it down. Great poster, in any case! It's a Sven Brasch. He did some terrific posters that put you in mind of Russian Constructivism - see http://wordsandeggs.wordpress.com/2...

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If they assume her influence started in the late 50s, I'd be more ready to believe it. Yes - the article itself way overstates her impact at the time, but if we're talking long-term influence - well, I don't see too many gals wearing their hair in Mary Pickford curls nowadays, put it that way. As f...

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I did give his "Keystone" book a try and found it nearly un-readable. I couldn't quite understand the approach he was taking with it This was my experience exactly. The research, the information - all of that was in place; I just couldn't figure out why reading a book on a subject I was very intere...

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