No, I don't follow that either??

Most of the libraries I saw listed are at colleges and universities. So I would expect a few librarians at places like those to understand the idea of doing research using hardcopy material at their institutions. As for how helpful they are to outsiders, let us know how it turns out. I would expect...

Check the original post, with a link to the worldcat web site that shows a list of libraries that have the publication. Context of the question is that the poster found a bibliographic reference (and a list of libraries holding the item) and wants to look something up. So the starting point is base...

I will now wait for the inevitable pointless comment from someone who defends the IMDB nincompoops just out of cussedness. Is that any more pointless than complaining with zero interest in explanations or solutions? Note that I actually got rid of a couple of these problems, so why not be a good sp...

I can assure you that it's not. I made a list of all horror/sci-fi/fantasy films available in syndication, and (in 1973) there were less than a dozen silents. LAM was not one of them. Nor was it listed in the 1978 edition (which I don't own, but previously used many times). Thanks. Another one disp...

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Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:12 am

I have the 1973 edition, which I can check if you like.

Thank you.
Just to check, could you see if "London after midnight" is listed in there? (I don't know how it's organised; I hope it's feasible.)

Of course, it's probably just to refute misinformation. But that's also good.

Does anyone perhaps have access to this publication?
https://www.worldcat.org/title/world-gu ... ef_results

I wish to verify (or deny) one silly, unsubstantiated rumour about a film.

I didn't know that for a time, there was no one complete print.

Maybe Les Rois Maudits, French (and nothing to do with "Silents").

a "journal" is now called an "indeterminate diachronic resource." I did not make this up! greta But in fairness, experts sometimes need to work with definitions. They are resources, in the same way that managers talk about assets. It is diachronic, Greek for "[continuing] through time". It sort of ...

Just went through this whole thread and was surprised to notice that nobody mentioned LOVE HAPPY, which got a financial shot-in-the-arm when it was running out of money by taking cash for featuring famous advertising billboards in the climactic chase. In a nice turn of events, it winded up being on...

Surely it's how the film was originally planned that counts. THE DESPERATE MAN was made for cinemas so that it is correctly (imho) a film, even though it was shown on US TV. Ah yes, but then how to fill the blank in the episode list of the TV anthology that showed it? (Or what if it actually premie...

Surely it's how the film was originally planned that counts. THE DESPERATE MAN was made for cinemas so that it is correctly (imho) a film, even though it was shown on US TV. Ah yes, but then how to fill the blank in the episode list of the TV anthology that showed it? (Or what if it actually premie...

Or was Bud right all along?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/

Radio drama, the TV series...?

There are a lot of issues with this. I'd rather stick with dubbing because: a) if I stick in intertitles, I've made the film longer and if we end up finding the sound, those have to be removed, etc. b) If I stick in subtitles, I've obscured part of the picture, and that's not good if we end up find...

There does seem to have been a collection that was sold toward the end of 2021. We got several Kongo discs and a few discs of an obscure Henry Walthall film from 1929. For some reason that doesn't seem to have attracted any attention. I wonder what it was, and what else was there - anyone know more...

I'd love to have Sara as a character, but there's only one speaking female role in the picture, and we've already redubbed part of her dialogue with another actress and I don't want to have to re-do it. I suppose she could dub a man, depending on how or with what technical help. If possible, I woul...

You should try searching Lantern. There are over 2000 hits for Bell, and the first one is about Pathe's weekly newsreel #21 May 19, 1913 that includes Bell in it No guarantee that it survives, though. I'm pretty sure there are some 1950s biopic anthology episodes about Bell? In the "you are there" ...

This year, the Telephone Museum of N.H. (yes, we have a telephone museum!) is focusing its programming on Alexander Graham Bell. Does anyone know of any silent shorts or features, no matter how obscure, that include Mr. Bell and his achievements in the story line? The one example I know about is ST...

My big issue with IMDb is they often list 1950's television dramas that aired on an anthology series twice, as part of the series and as a "tv movie". Sometimes they'll do it if the same program aired at different times under two program banners. It's usually hard to get them to delete one of the e...

In this specific case it would be interesting to find out how the mistaken entry was made in the first place. Who would know to connect the person with the movie when the person's ties to it were only as an early discussion leading to deciding not to be involved? Not that that type of information i...

Yes, we got several discs last year. We are now only missing Ch1: R1,2 Ch3: R1,2 Ch7: R1 I'm working on a Kickstarter to fund this so I can get this done without completely alienating all of my assistants. This has been a long haul. Smashing news, on a side note, that discs still turn up even now. ...

Is it my imagination, or did you really acquire more discs in the last year?

This? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173984/ https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b73914cc7 The lack of details is the hallmark of the obscure and/or lost, isn't it! Makes you wonder who even filled out the crew. One POSSIBLE theory: it's the same as the AFI tribute, re-edited perhaps. That wa...

But in general, they're much bigger on idiocy than fastidiousness. For proof of that, read every entry on this thread. Every, except the ones where the problems turned out to be fixable. What are mixed-up zombies anyway? Are they supposed to come in a particular order which wasn't adhered to? Or wa...

Spin... Like Bruce, I don't recognize these girls either; probably just a couple extras. But try to give us a front view of those two male actors talking with the girls. The little spiffy dresser might be Billy Bletcher or other similar short comic of the late 1920s, but won't know until they do an...

But some nitrate is more important than others...

Someone is selling this locally.

Could it be of any importance?

I haven't asked specifically about Lights Out. Not sure if the same gift restriction would apply for LoC. I always have the option of trying to procure a copy directly from Gosfilmofond. In the past, they've seem willing to share, but they're dealing with new management over there so not sure what ...

The permission thing may have to do with FIAF? I'm acquiring a new film from LOC but it's from Dutch EYE and requires their ok as per FIAF. LOC is handling the approval. I don't know a lot about FIAF or why these kinds of donor restrictions would apply to public domain films. Couldn't you get it di...