Of course, the Snarky folk would mention that Welles Guy in this category, but I like too many of his later films to do so myself, and it really is too amazing a life and career. Thank you! I like Ambersons just as much as Citizen Kane , even with the forced cuts and different ending imposed in Wel...

Years ago I saw a program of early films at MoMA preserved from paper prints.

Too bad the copyright office stopped requiring them, think of all the films that wouldn't be "lost!"

In regard to The Runaway and Rough House Rosie , could David Stenn be reached through his publisher? I would like to know if they are around also. It's true the footage looks fine. I watched the whole documentary last night on Youtube and enjoyed it. Clara clearly had a lot of torment in her life bu...

I just ordered too, it sounds great!

I'm reading the Tracy Bio (via public library loan on my Kindle) and I think it's a great read, albeit long, I'm on my second renewal!

Yes very sad.

The Hollywood Reporter has published part of Ebert's final review, of the latest Terrence Malick film, To the Wonder:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/r ... nds-434282

I looked at the Lon Chaney film on WA instant briefly last night, the quality looks very good on the Roku for a film circa 1920.

It's available on my Roku as of now! Here's the website:

http://www.digidev.tv/silentfilms.html" target="_blank

Ankerich interviewed her son and quoted him as of 2010; I believe he is still alive and has children of his own.

As far as reconciliation, he did visit Mae during her final illness.

Roseha,

Wasn't she actually 5 or 6 years older than Rudy?

Gagman, according to Ankerich, Mae was born in 1885 but kept that a secret. Wiki says Rudy was born in 1895.

I have The Merry Widow on my Tivo, looking forward to seeing it.

I just read Michael Ankerich's excellent bio of Mae Murray, and while he is sympathetic as one could be, it seems clear that part of her problem was that she couldn't bear to play an older character even as she became older herself. Of course it was very sad to read about her final years. She did ha...

NOT as Heathcliff! .... But John Barrymore, now, that might work.

Ohh Silent John Barrymore as Heathclliff, love the idea! For some reason the sound version with Olivier made him way too nice.

By the way, I don't think Olivier won the Oscar for that role - didn't Robert Donat win in 1939?

The Kodachrome may not be entirely realistic, but it's as indescribably beautiful as a Vermeer. Oh, I didn't mean it that way, I love the look of the early Kodachrome too. I have family photos (I'm four years old in them) of us taken in Kodachrome, they are beautiful and look as bright as new. I re...

The Eastman House has uploaded this to Youtube:



Love the music they play with it. I find it fascinating to watch silent film in color, it almost seems like a weird conflict to me, though the Kodachrome here isn't quite realistic.

Keaton gave him an anonymous role in some silly elevator scene

I havent' seen that, if it exists, but one of Buster's bios (I think the Tom Dardis) indicates that Buster lent (more like donated) a great deal of money to Arbuckle post-scandal.

Just found these on Ebay: Baby Peggy paper doll with costumes http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Original-Vintage-1925-Baby-Peggy-Paper-Doll-Frances-Tipton-Hunter-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjI4/z/h6QAAMXQMmJRSHV5/$T2eC16R,!%29kE9s4Z+lP9BRSHV5LCdg~~60_57.JPG and an article about another Baby Peggy Doll: http://i.ebayimg.com...

Gagman, where did you see the bio, you are in the US correct?

I hope they have found the films also.

They sound wonderful! Great news.

I've put my name on their mailing list, hope they announce this soon.

I know they were at different studios, but I think Buster and Clara together would have been amazing.

I've been thinking about this myself. What Netflix is useful for is streaming to an Ipad or a Roku if there's nothing on TV, or if you are somewhere with almost, or no cable channels. But now I've subscribed to Fandor, and I also get Classic Flix, who are getting a little speedier about sending the ...

I love Barrymore's voice but I also love his work in silent films. From what I've seen the farther back in time you go the better he is (quality of the film at hand notwithstanding - the craziness of The Sea Beast for example). I often feel that I can see him thinking in his silent roles.

I read McTeague in college and this is one occasion of my feeling the film is definitely superior to the source book. I may be wrong (college was a long time ago!) but, for instance, I don't believe Frank Norris came up with the idea of McTeague and Trina being married with a funeral procession goin...

The second line seems to say "in sincere friendship."

It does look like a P on the third line, but I can't make it out.

I can't think of any silents, though I have to put a word in for BILL AND COO, the 1948 all-bird film which is posted on the Internet Archive here: http://archive.org/details/Bill_and_Coo

I just finished SECRETS OF THE NIGHT. I found it reminiscent of THE BAT/THE BAT WHISPERS, as in both featuring spooky house/mystery/comedy with a twist at the end. I have to say that I pretty much suspected the twist - that the "victim" Robert Andrews (James Kirkwood) who supposedly wanted to be sho...

Classic Flix sent out an email about possibly streaming sometime last year, haven't heard back yet about it. I would love to see them do it.

I will definitely see if I can connect with Warner Archive on my Roku/TV. I'm already very happy with Fandor, and hope I can watch both.

I do have a Jwin DVD player that I hacked to play PAL very easily. And Amazon overseas shipping for DVDs is reasonable.

It's a great short and glad I finally got to see it. But what's with the nonstop sound effects? They all but take over the film. Geez... Totally agree, I started watching it and got so turned off I almost posted a comment about the sound effects under the video. Is there a version with just a music...

I bought a Tivo last summer and found out after the fact that Time Warner Cable blocks copying to Tivo's "Desktop" software (which transfers to Ipad, etc) anything but the broadcast stations and a few random channels. I imagine the same will apply to DVD.