Ah, but it was worth it to make both Waveyboy and Gagman gag for awhile so that the screaming voices in their heads were telling them they could never watch the silent GOLD RUSH again because it was not the "true and complete" original version, something nearly impossible to see with so many Chapli...

When home video later came to the fore, calls went out for a proper restoration of The Gold Rush. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill took on the project on behalf of Chaplin’s estate. Gill wrote a terrific article about complications of that for Griffithiana (#54 --- October 1995), a film journal near i...

My urgency about this is greatly lessened by the fact that I've watched two Panasonic DVD recorders die inexplicable early deaths. I'm coming to the conclusion that just buying the damn discs from Warner Archive is probably cost-effective compared to spending $300 a year on a new recorder. I'm sure...

The Haunted Castle from 1896 relies on shot-substitution, the filmmaker’s first trick discovery; it is a work in 21 shots at a time when everyone else in the world was making only single-shot films! So this is LE MANOIR DU DIABLE aka THE DEVIL'S CASTLE at last??? I am SO STOKED ABOUT THIS!!! Ever s...

I've only seen THE WIND, which I loved apart from the disastrous ending. The original ending no longer exists, correct?

After reading this thread, I realize that I really need to see more of Sjöström's stuff.

This place is also quite nice, co-founded by the son of the guy who started the ASV Living Era series:

www.pastperfect.com

March 15, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington
Dennis James’ original Silent Movie Mondays series: Henri de \
la Falaise’s LEGONG, DANCE OF THE VIRGINS

Cool, looks like Dennis is back with Silent Movie Mondays at the Paramount!

boblipton wrote:There aren't many silent movies I want to see more than once...

Buddy, I think you just lost major Nitrateville cool points with that statement.

Pardon if this is a stupid question, but would it still help if I bought THE DRAGON PAINTER and STELLA MARIS instead, or any other of your previously released silent titles that I don't yet own? Or would buying THE EXILES help more? Well, I was just joking, but any purchase helps us, of course. Oh ...

Pardon if this is a stupid question, but would it still help if I bought THE DRAGON PAINTER and STELLA MARIS instead, or any other of your previously released silent titles that I don't yet own? Or would buying THE EXILES help more?

Realease your Charley Chase set and then I'll take your survey! Ya know, that was the first thought that raced through my mind when I read Dennis' post. I'm absolutely DYING for that to get released, and will order it the second it does, if it EVER does...perhaps on Blu-ray, eh, Dennis? But, since ...

I'll buy these on principle alone of course (though it's Bow and Moore that I REALLY want :) ), but all I've seen of the Talmadges is Connie in THE PRIMITIVE LOVER, which I thought was only OK. How might these films stack up against that one? So far, Connie just ain't grabbin' me like Clara and Coll...

drednm wrote:and what a pity that the copy of FLAMING YOUTH that Colleen Moore gave to MoMA in the 1960s was allowed to rot or get lost or whatever their excuse was.

That's horrible. Anyone have more details on that?

I admit that the Warner website is pretty clunky and slow. That being said, I have never not been able to complete an order on it. The only thing I can think might be the problem is if someone is trying to navigate it using a dial-up connection. That would be a nightmare, but I'm sure anyone still ...

Oh, I tried to buy a whole stack of those Archive silents a few months ago...only to have their indescribably horrible website prevent me from doing so. It would not process my order, and I tried multiple times. I've never experienced such an impossible-to-use website in the ten years I've been onli...

This topic has probably come up before, but hey, let's have another round... After finally getting to cross METROPOLIS off the list ( :D ), my silent film holy grails currently are: RED HAIR FLAMING YOUTH The complete version of ELLA CINDERS (seems like most current prints are all derived from the K...

Well, they better at least release HER WILD OAT, since it's already restored. Colleen really needs to be rediscovered; I hope a lot of her "status unknown" films turn up to be extant. I dearly hope some more of Clara's films turn up too; lousy old Paramount left Clara Bow's films to rot in the vault...

Time to revive this thread. Now that the Talmadge girls are going to have their day in the DVD spotlight, isn't it high time for Miss Moore to get the same? When, oh WHEN will Warner Bros. give us the box set Colleen deserves? Wouldn't we be salivating over a set that contains complete-as-possible, ...

My wish list: Douglas Fairbanks - A Modern Musketeer box set The Douglas Fairbanks Collection The Iron Mask Blood And Sand Griffith Masterworks Vol. 1 Treasures From American Film Archives More Treasures From American Film Archives Tol'able David The Adventures Of Prince Achmed Pandora's Box (Criter...

Not Oona, at least not in fleshly form, as she died in 1991.

Enjoyable, and very cool that it was made. The guy's no Billy West, but he's giving it a good try. His costume fits far too well though. His shoes are the right size for his feet, his hat is the right size for his head, his pants aren't baggy, and his coat is too loose. They needed some more effort ...

A goodly number of Linder's shorts have been posted on Youtube by a German who goes under the nom-de-screen of Notremaxnational. His collection -- which includes a goodly number of other European comedy shorts from the 1905-1915 era can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=notremaxnationa...

Can this be had on DVD/DVD-R, or would one have to wait for a TCM broadcast?

Is not encouraging at all... it is not even important information. Milestones are authentic archival achievements and not commercial reprints of films. Your opinion to be sure yet a Blu Ray of a classic silent is big news to the silent community and I for one am thrilled to see it happen to Buster ...

I think a replacement disc program from Kino is in order here...

Although I've got issues with the projection speeds he advocates for some silent comedies (too SLOW, man!), Serge Bromberg is an angel of classic film rescue, preservation and promotion, and deserves this honor and much more; why not the Légion d'honneur? He's at least as deserving as J.K. Rowling, ...

A Blu-Ray release of The General (with bonus features identical to last year's standard definition release) has been announced at Classic Flix with a scheduled date of 10 November. Love the artwork! -Harold That's a great still of Buster, but as a cover, the standard-def Kino version has it beat ha...

I fail to understand why you have no interest in seeing a version of METROPOLIS that is complete at last, instead of missing hunks of vital footage. Because: (1) The Kino version seems satisfyingly complete to me; (2) I am not wealthy and cannot afford to buy every latest "ultimate" edition of film...

I don't think I could stand yet another and presumably even longer version in 2010. I'm glad I waited for Kino's longer version of Metropolis and have absolutely no interest in getting an even longer reissue of it. Ditto for Phantom of the Opera, Battleship Potemkin, and Napoleon . There comes a po...

One reel of color and tinted footage apparently survives at UCLA. From Wikipedia: Only one reel with a color sequence survives, which is part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Also: No complete prints of The Mysterious Island (1929) with the original tinting and two-color Technicolor sequence...