Tillie was transfered at 18 fps. That is the speed that Ross Lipman at UCLA states is correct. It's a "natural" looking speed - the action seems to be shot at the speed of the projecton. Well, Ross Lipman is incorrect. TILLIES PUNCTURED ROMANCE was never meant to be shown at a "natural" speed. This...

How can someone update something they don't own? :lol: All the more reason to declare their intellectual null and void. :lol: :twisted: They're LOSERS! I tell you LOSERS! :twisted: Post on You-Tube at will! :wink: I would never declare their intellectual null and void. They seem very intellectual t...

You ask who's hurt when something like HOLLYWOOD plays illegally on YouTube. It's people like Photoplay, who see their product's worth diminish when people who want something for free/fast upload it to such sites, decreasing it's possible future value in sales. It's people like David Shepard and Je...

Honestly, as much as folks banter about on the topic of copyright law and how the 95-year extension will be extended even more, I really doubt it. Studios and their lobbyists were around at just the right time and knew the right people. They played their wild card and it worked, but I don't think t...

It is the strangest attitude that has come to be almost universal about intellectual property. " It's theirs, and I know it, but I want it, gimme gimme, what's wrong with stealing it to share with the world?" (See Passport Video) Two companies have already bootlegged our 5-DVD Melies set, cover art...

Playing devil's advocate here, there's plenty of reason why a copyright holder such as Thames or Photoplay would want YouTube videos removed. A copyright lawyer's main reasoning would be that gaving it up for free will diminish sales once a legitimate DVD arrangement is worked out. But furthermore,...

So, in the upcoming Shepard/Lobster DVD, will TILLIE be run in Chaplin Essanay DVD Slo-Mo? Or will it be run at the correct speed?

And that would be a bootleg, which this site does not support. Any time you view a film there, download illegally, or buy from a bootlegger, you are taking money away from filmmakers and their heirs. And now why would the filmmakers want to spend the money even if they could, knowing you would stea...

I see no one has mentioned my least-favorite score. Yes, it is another one by Maria Newman. TOM SAWYER was shown on TCM about 2001 with her score. This version stars Jack Pickford. The music did not match the action in any way and was a mess. What could have been an enjoyable piece of Americana was...

As this set is long out-of-print, and most likely will never be reissued due to rights issues, I personally would look for other solutions rather than paying a grand or even a few hundred to bloodsuckers for 13 used one-hour VHS tapes. And that's all I'll say on the matter.

Well, I have no idea what you've seen already, but here's a list of my faves (including some bleedingly obvious canon-type titles you've no doubt seen a gazillion times, but what the hell, I'm throwin'em in, just 'cause I wanna)... THE MAN WHO LAUGHS THE CROWD THE GODLESS GIRL SEVENTH HEAVEN SUNRISE...

I would argue that THE MAN WHO LAUGHS is already pretty well known; isn't it already a part of the so-called canon?

More light/romantic comedies, dammit. ELLA CINDERS and ORCHIDS IN ERMINE for instance, two of the best ever. Not "artsy" or "important", perhaps, but damn enjoyable films that will never be on any Top 100 silent films list; not even a Top 200, as ELLA comes in at 263 on the SilentEra list, and ORCHI...

While Colleen did not orignate the bob, she is credited with popularizing it because she was the first major celebrity to adopt it as her signature style. When Colleen had her hair bobbed for Flaming Youth, Louise was still an unknown, dancing for the Denishaw company. In 1926, when Louise was feat...

Thanks for the fabulous pics! I agree that there were a few bobs going around, and that Louise and Colleen's bobs weren't exactly alike; my main point was that there's no way that Louise copied her hairstyle from Colleen, despite what's been written to the contrary. She was steadily sporting it way ...

So, I've seen it written that, although Louise Brooks is known for (among other things) her famous haircut, she copied it from Colleen Moore. I just watched the doc included in the Criterion release of PANDORA'S BOX, and from photographic evidence contained therein, that wouldn't appear to be the ca...

We have been looking into possible Blu-Ray publication by Flicker Alley of a silent film with supplementary material which will run about 200 minutes all told. It's a title which will have wider appeal than, say, MISS MEND or one of our Abel Gance colossi, but not on the magnitude of, say, MODERN T...

Just got the Grapevine set today. It's a straight rip of the Republic laserdiscs, minus the opening Blackhawk introductory text descriptions of each film, and with the Native American logo digitally blacked out on the title cards. So, if you want the Van Beuren editions with the jazzy scores and eff...

Jack Theakston wrote:The BFI materials are alternate takes, but are camera negative, hence the color. The two restorations were based off of these same materials.

The American Technicolor cut only exists as a black and white dupe (and apparently a black and white "B Roll" version).

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

The British Film Institute has restored the film twice. The (far superior) second restoration does not circulate. The first restoration is the basis of the Rohauer version. Douglas F Jnr financed it with a large donation (which is how Raymond R then obtained access). It was built from unused takes ...

Let's hope Maria Newman is not let anywhere near any more Milestone Pickford releases (or any other silent film releases, for that matter). Her score for HEART O' THE HILLS is absolutely abominable... You must have read my mind. What should have been a lovely pastoral score sounded more like someth...

I just ordered the Grapevine Mutuals set, and I'll post a full report on the quality thereof as soon as it arrives. Geez, this'll be the sixth video incarnation of the Mutuals I've purchased; I first picked up the Republic VHS set, then got the Republic LDs to replace those, then added the Image LDs...

SHE is unbelievably bad, but a very enjoyable Ed Wood-ish kind of bad. Heinrich George looks bewildered all the way through. I have to say, I've read the novel of She, and although it's a fun read with some wild imagination, it's hard to imagine a good film ever being made of that material. I haven...

Richard M Roberts wrote:This is one of the reasons why the only comedians we deal with at Slapsticon are dead ones.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

I gotta say, I thought that was a really funny line.

And sloppy proofreading. It always does my heart good, though, to see people actually doing this kind of stuff, instead of being a mere lazy fan like me who sits around and collects DVDs (as well as dust). Oh well, I am planning on starting a monthly silent screening get-together at my place, to spr...

Don't forget "The Hunchback Of Notre Dam", in which Laun pours molten lead down on the crowd from atop that famous Parisian water barrier.

I second that! Ben's score is fantastic. You'll make yourself more affordable to Kino than Vince & The Nighthawks, won't you Ben, just for us please?

I just received this yesterday, and have been going through the films. I was hoping that these would be transfers I hadn't seen before, but they appear to be recycled masters from the old Media Home Entertainment series, Chaplin: Lost & Found Mutual Vols. 1-3, which used David Shepard's restorations...

Well, wait for the Pickford Foundation issues that will become available. Milestone Films and the Pickford Foundation have done a wonderful job with what has been released so far. Hopefully when Dennis returns from Pordenone, he can enlighten us to what is coming up and when re Pickford. Sorry, it ...

Here we have yet another prime example of someone posting mere speculation on the internet and people regarding it as fact. Chaplin's 1942 version (actually completed in 1941 but held back) is made from uncut takes off a second camera running a couple of feet to the right of the prime camera, the o...