Clipgrab is a good software for downloading from Youtube

Yes the BFI holds copies.However access is restricted to preserve the elements

But nobody says it is lost

The BF I do not say this film is lost.There are 5 votes for it on IMDb.This site did not say it is lost nor no mention of it being lost on Wikipedia.So it is likely to be genuine.

The film created great controversy here.The veterans of the Burma campaign were most indignant that they did not treat POWs in the way depicted in the film.

By the way BFI closing for the virus,for no other reason.

UK cinemas to close in the next few days.Sounds a bit like Armageddon.

BIG Southbank just announced closure.

So Long At The Fair.
David Tomlinson gets the plague and hotel owners make out that he never stayed there.

I had the great fortune to see him on stage as Bud Flanagan in Underneath The Arches.Ches Allen came on stage and sang the title number with him..I shared his love of Max Miller.Don't know if Nitratevillians would get the humour..I know a few from the blue book.

80000 Suspects(1963) about an outbreak of smallpox in Bath

There are only filmographies,no biography.

Retro suddenly vanished and there is no channel 327 in Sky.Shame it had some films rarely seen anywhere else.

8 of his British films survive.He directed Feather Your Nest starting George Formby.Only It's In The Bag,starting Nervo and Knox,one of the surviving Teddington films,have not been available on DVD.This I have seen at the BIG screening service as they have a viewing copy.Hope you have been able to r...

Does it deal at length with his British films?

As I have previously posted there is an excellent blog already out there.I would rather spend my money on a blog about someone not previously covered.

Yes,good to see you again

Now this isn't a silent film.However Lights of New York 1928 was the first all talking picture.In many scenes a telephone is standing on a table surrounded by the actors.The phone is in actual fact the microphone.It is used in the course of the film.I think it must be the first use of the phrase"tak...

Nitrate film is self combustible,so no precautions can eliminate fire risk,not is there any guaranteed way to put the fire out.

I 'll bet your insurance won't cover you if you have a fire.

Goodbye to a true great

Its a satire starting Steve Cogan,opening here in the UK on February 21

The filming of Me and My Girl was done by the BBC for tv transmission in 1939

Then there was Grace Kelly

Well MGM could revert to Metro
Paramount to Famous Players
Warners to First National
RKO to FBO
Etc etc

I have the Jolson episode on Super 8mms sound

I know it is supposed to be a moving picture but this is taking it a bit too far

I visited this with the CTA of the UK about 15 years ago.A beautiful building,so sad to hear of its closure.

Yes I had seen that.Recorded 11 titles off it this week.Many films not been shown for 20 or 30 years.
TIM has recently shown 4 of the Paramount Marxes recently but still feels like a second run cinema always showing B films.Bit like Retro movies!

There is a book on Republic Studios,but I wouldn't recommend it.