Oh wow!

(Although, I sometimes wonder if you don't have a wrong encoding setting somewhere. The picture sometimes seems a bit odd around the edges of persons/moving things.)

Well, I am still hoping some of the people here can open the "Bianco e nero" volume on 1910. I sent an email to an Italian film archive, maybe they will give some details about this film By the way - just to make sure - I do not mean to be disparaging. Even if this movie turns out to be one that sti...

telical wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 06, 2022 10:25 pm

I wonder what their copy of Greed is like.

Given that there are also many later films, it may not be an "old" copy but a later reissue.

mpodolski wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 06, 2022 2:45 pm

Yes, I am

So far we managed to scan and digitize six movies, trying to digitize the rest

Sorry this is a very detailed question, but out of interest, are there any "Greek/Roman" films there?

The film is 1910 for sure considering the announcement in the newspaper In that case, I deduce that there were two movies. That is not unusual at all. Maybe someone could check Bianco e Nero 1910? It is also still possible that of the two, this is the 1912/3 movie. Sometimes it is a puzzle, but eve...

Urban explorers just hit upon this? Well, stranger things have happened! I am almost a bit suspicious with all these well-known titles in the list. Do you ANYTHING about the rediscovered film? There is NOTHING about this film out in the net, only small Wikipedia article in Italian There was a photo...

Dave Pitts wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 04, 2022 3:54 pm

The Bible (1966)

Fair enough; for a minute I was afraid someone would have the gall to say Lord of the Rings.

Urban explorers just hit upon this? Well, stranger things have happened!

I am almost a bit suspicious with all these well-known titles in the list.

Dr. Strangelove was at least different from its source!

Recently I saw an old interview with a star of a big BBC TV drama of the 1970s. And she said something like, mediocre books always make the best series.
She could be right. (I just don't remember the names.)

I thought this youtuber's project might be of interest:

They switched suitcases with the photo I had, but yes that must be it!

By the way, does that exist? Anyone know?

That would make this a certain Catherine Bennett:



It's possible.

Well, the good news is, 2 and a half minutes exist.

drednm wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 28, 2022 7:44 pm

Maybe Southbound Limited (1923)....

Best guess so far!
It doesn't really resemble https://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/m ... oti_3_0393 or https://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/e ... xhi_0_0331 but then, it doesn't have to.

Anyone got a clue? All I can think of is Pullman Porter with Arbuckle, but there's probably several other options...! Movie contains a close-up, cut into the action. https://i.postimg.cc/CxLHLG2B/vlcsnap-2022-08-28-23h24m32s963.png https://i.postimg.cc/pXBJHGsM/vlcsnap-2022-08-28-23h24m47s365.png ht...

And, like I said earlier, I suppose a 4K bluray will work just fine as well.

Until they and the white middle class left give white Europeans of the past as much "almost no one contemporary to them would have objected to it" leeway as they give Muhammed for the child bride, I'm not listening to any protestors claims. I can't figure out if the post above is super woke or very...

earlytalkiebuffRob wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 09, 2022 12:36 pm

And if I suspect I may be offended by a film I simply don't watch it, or if I do, will appreciate that I have been warned. Too many tempting films out there without seeing ones I suspect I'd dislike...

Ah but being offended, and disliking are not always the same thing!

A friend has been studying this topic and who is interested in seeing films which deal with it has led to a bit of discussion on how much there is out there. I suspect that some titles will be no more, and others only available in poor or unsubtitled copies, but would be interested in a few suggest...

There's some good inventions there, for 1933, although not necessarily leading to people rolling over the floor. The idea is consistently carried through and it avoided going all "Flintstones". Possibly it's central joke theme is too simple for modern audiences who are used to the same and more ten ...

I contacted Mark Fuller at Southwest Silents in Bristol. He can take it from here. Again I have no idea what the collection comprised..... There was one collector from that part of the UK who died just when I had paid him for a 16mm kinescope... of course the chances are still one in a thousand... ...

On disc - so essentially commercial releases or off air?
So not film in the sense of 16 or 35?


Kaleidoscope group on facebook perhaps??

I don't get it. If that movie writes "Allen" instead of "Allan", which is apparently the proper spelling, then isn't the reviewer correct to quote it like that? Or is the problem that Dwan didn't? You can vote down the review. I don't know what kind of correction system the IMDb should have to filt...

Seems to have been shown in (West-)Germany 1986 and 1992.

One problem would be that the German TV program would no doubt be dubbed.

Plus, whether Germany, UK, Holland, or Belgium... it is generally planned for 120 minutes exactly. (Schedules are very crude of course so it doesn't mean anything.)

BudAbbott wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 2:08 am

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Well said. After all: Know thyself, as the Greeks said; or, for the more bible minded there's Matthew 7:3/Luke 6:41.

For anyone who might be in too much of a hurry to defend the Sages of IMDB to notice such things, here is what Rob noticed in that review: " 'Allen' (sic) Dwan directed 'the original Jazz Singer'..." The spelling is only a secondary bit of clumsiness in this case. As it occurred in a review, there ...

When was it shown on German television? The TV stations might still have this footage.

I don't get it. If that movie writes "Allen" instead of "Allan", which is apparently the proper spelling, then isn't the reviewer correct to quote it like that? Or is the problem that Dwan didn't? You can vote down the review. I don't know what kind of correction system the IMDb should have to filte...

Oh I see! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Incrediblystrangecreatures.jpg No I'm afraid that that had never crossed my path before. So Ed Wood wasn't alone, then. The Wikipedia entry for John Abbott says that his scenes for Hangmen Also Die (1943) were deleted, so who are you going to ...

For the past couple years, I haven't had much success with online reference requests. Most recently, I asked the BFI if they could scan a 10-page pressbook and send it to me as a pdf. They politely responded that they don't have the staff to undertake such requests, but I'm welcome to visit the arc...