BTW, some H.G. Wells that could have been but never were: The Time Machine: Wells met with Robert W. Paul way back in 1895 to construct a multi-media (including film) presentation. The King Who Was a King: Wells wrote it as kind of a film treatment but without much hope that it would ever see fruiti...

Apparently, there is also a surving copy of a 1921 German adpatation of The Island of Doctor Moreau, Die Insel der Verschollenen , in the German archives. Boy have I been dying to see that one. I've heard rumors that it is part Moreau but that there are touches of The Mysterious Island as well. Steve

Well, Wells (hmm what a start) did have some early science fiction loosely adapted. In A Trip to the Moon, for instance, the astronomers crash down, encounter volcanoes, have a dream sequence, discover snow and strange large plants, strike Selenites who are easily destroyed...that's all pretty much ...

Link to the dates and more info:

http://fireflyblog.org/a-touch-of-holly ... ry-on-tcm/

It's a traveling exhibition by the Turner folks. (some from silent era / most seems to be from the talkies)

Steve

Personally, I found Les Vampires a very trying experience. I just couldn't get into it and never re-visited the film. For that reason, I've passed on both Judex and Fantomas . Possibly echoing what others have said... Les Vampires was somewhat tedious for me. Judex, on the other hand, I found lots ...

Another recent book that's really great for the illustrations is L'oeuvre de Georges Melies (2008)...again it's in French, obviously.

Steve

The absolute best book (in English, at least) on the man is Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Melies by John Frazer. In spite of the title, there is quite a bit of bio. It's hard to track down a used copy tho' and you may have to try the library. Others listed in rough order of dept...

Thanks, Arndt. I accumulated a number of these thru the years but only recently noticed a pattern.

Steve

An out-of-the-blue question here....

I've got several tapes thru trades of European silents which have a simple "BA" logo stamped on them. I suspect this was a TV station of some kind (maybe before ARTE) but have no way of knowing. Anyone know for sure?

Thanks,

Steve

Thanks for posting. I've been wanting to see this little film.

EDIT: anyone know if it is or will be on a DVD compilation?

Steve

Any reason to visit The Fabulous Fox is a good one. Unfortunately, we just caught The General at The Strand.

Steve

Thanks for that! I check the Strand listings regularly but must have missed this one somehow.

Steve

One that comes to mind very recently is that "Willis O'Brien made Along the Moonbeam Trail". The Academy just showed a restoration to a group of folks who are unanimous in that it's the work of Herbert M. Dawley instead.

Steve

Can anyone give any info on the titles?

Thanks,

Steve (who'd love to get a nice DVD of Saturnino Farandola)

I bought a copy (from ebay?) a while ago. It's a worthwhile purchase. If memory serves, the slides are separated by categories so that you can zero in easier.

Steve

Einar the Lonely wrote:Once the scholarly and personal anger is gone, maybe his writings can now be considered as art, as literature, pastiche, capriccios or some kind of meta-criticism. .

Pretty sure that Polish author Stanislaw Lem once wrote a book or two composed of nothing but fictional book reviews.

Steve

Thanks, Luke.

Like everyone else, I think this is tremendous and all involved deserve a huge, huge pat on the back. 2 questions: - in quickly reading the link for the Media History Digital Library, I got the impression that the original magazines are being digitalized. Is that correct? Somehow, I always thought t...

Ray Faiola has a brief sequence of the Tiffany film Midstream; so that's not completely lost. (it was featured on the Phantom of the Opera DVD).

Steve

Thanks, Bruce. I'm doing it now.

Steve

Oops. I can't seem to send a private message; are they disabled for this board?

Luke,

I think that I have an old email address of yours; I just hope it's still valid and that I reached you.

Steve

Here's some misc facts that I can tell you: (1)There is a film called The Comet located at the Library of Congress. Here are the details: THE COMET LC CALL NUMBER: FLA 1361 COLLECTION: GEORGE KLEINE COLLECTION (2)Clips from a film which seem to match the description you provide were used to embellis...

There are 2 good books on photoplay editions. The 1st is called "Photoplay Edition" by Emil Petaja and the 2nd is "Photoplay Editions - A Collectors Guide" by Rick Miller. Both state that the G&D printing of The Iron Horse should have 8 stills. I'd guess that probably someone removed them.

Steve

I eagerly looked forward to this film when it was put out by DFI a few years back. It's a curiosity for sure, but I enjoyed it enough to watch it several times. One thing I noticed it the imagery of the Martians bore a striking resemblance to those in Charles Hawtrey's film and play A Message from M...

I love early Soviet science fiction oriented films. Aelita as well as Luch Smerti, Miss Mend and Cosmic Journey have all proved to be worthwhile. (Although can Cosmic Journey be considered a "silent"? iirc there is a sync'd music sound track & it was made in the 30s). For that matter, the USSR turne...

Greta, I enjoyed both but especially liked Himmelskibet (A Trip to Mars). That's probably because I couldn't keep from comparing the Danish "End of the World" to Gance's (which in uncut form is vastly unappreciated in my opinion). It's been a while since I watched them but The Flying Circus / The Be...

Thanks. Actually, I messed up. I was thinking about a film called "THE Intrigue" from the prior year.

Steve

Harold Aherne wrote:
Peggy Hyland: an actress at Vitagraph and Fox in the late 1910s. The only title of hers that I've found so far is "Intrigue" (1917).

-Harold

Just curious. What was your opinion of the film?

Thanks,

Steve

Will you be covering the recent silent horror films CALL OF CTHULHU (2005) or PROMETHEUS TRIUMPHANT: A FUGUE IN THE KEY OF FLESH (2008)? We've had to limit our parameters somewhere on an effort this large. Alas, nothing after the silent era; serials and shorts are excluded too. Steve PS I agree wit...

As many of you may know, led by John Soister, Henry Nicolella, Bill Chase, Harry Long and I have been toiling away on a book covering U.S. feature-length silent horror, science fiction and fantasy films. Recently we hit a milestone; our 300th essay is ready to go! Now this project has taken longer t...