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Richard M Roberts

Enough with the personal insults - let's move on. Quite. In the meantime, I'll assume, unless anyone can point to evidence to the contrary, that natural frame speed was used for drama in the silent era, apart from projector overcranking in places where there was a commercial pressure to get a secon...

Richard M Roberts

Sorry, but if you want to trade insults with someone, pick on someone else. I'm too busy. Obviously not, but this is obviously becoming a waste of time. A lot of mediocre directors got by with good scripts, far fewer great directors saved bad ones. And the irony is the fact that "Auteur" is just a ...

Richard M Roberts

ANNIE HALL is a good example for your point since the editor, Ralph Rosenblum, devised the structure of the picture after shooting, thus saving Allen's ass. Well, sez Rosenblum, and in his autobiography, every film he ever worked on was apparently a tangled, unworkable mess that only he saved in th...

Richard M Roberts

Well, an awful lot of smokescreen there, but thanks for the link to the article If you are seeing smokescreen,methinks it may be between your ears. Perhaps answers of some complexity are a bit trying for you, this may tie in with your need to spend extra time with each of those film frames to let i...

Richard M Roberts

Okay, but firstly I was specifically asking about the filmmakers intentions, not exhibitors racing through a film to get a second screening in, or producers embarrassed enough to want to get through a film premiere quickly. Secondly, the actual speed in fps is not the issue, but whether the project...

Richard M Roberts

<snip>you can bet they raced it through as fast as they could get away with it, if not trimming it where they could,and more power to them! Heh, that's how a few Ham & Bud shorts back to back make me feel. :wink: Yaddda-Yadddda! But you'll sit through a 10 reel Selig feature from 1916 at 8 fps and ...

Richard M Roberts

I'd certainly be intrigued if you had any contemporary evidence of non-avant garde, dramatic films being shown at faster than natural speed at the behest of the film's director.....not including undercranked vehicle stunts, and the like. Okay, I see you need to do some research. This one right off ...

Richard M Roberts

No, because that was the speed it was filmed at; it's not a Keystone comedy, so speeding it up would have the poilus skipping across the trenches in a comedy fashion...not desirable. And the speeds they were filmed at were not the speeds they were meant to be shown. This whole concept of "Natural s...

Richard M Roberts

Abel Gance at 16 fps............. Stop the presses Boys, I have to revise my Vision of Hell! So, do Europeans actually want pictures that Move? Why don't they just put an Oil Painting up in front of the screen and play music for two hours. Or do the Academics just love it because it gives them more ...

Richard M Roberts

Richard bless you dear but I am not a child and I may be blonde but the tone is not necessary, considering I covered both of these topics in my post. You were probably too busy getting ready to tell me how stupid I was to notice. I would never belabor the obvious. I guess I confused it was Famous P...

Richard M Roberts

The Warner Brothers one is silent era? I thought that was the one at the corner of Selma and Vine and they knocked that down in the late 20s, then I would guess built this one. I thought that was more talkies. Okay, I guess you don't get parentheses. It reads: "Warner Brothers (formerly First Natio...

Richard M Roberts

The Essanay Chicago studio is still there as well. And the Norma/Constance Talmadge/Comique studio building on East 48th St. in New York, though it is now a parking garage. I think Selznick used it after the Talmadges moved west. greta And, oh yeah, what about those studios, oh, what's their names....

Richard M Roberts

Sorry to belabour such a small point--and Mr. Roberts' command of film history makes me reluctant to cavil--but I reckoned that the Langdon's came back to the US in 1937 after seeing their names on a passenger manifest for a ship arriving in New York from Southampton in mid-May of that year. This m...

Richard M Roberts

It's believed to be the only silent film studio still standing in the United States. All of the others have been destroyed. Ahmmmmm------no, not actually, considering in Los Angeles, there still stands the old Bosworth Studio, The Old Vitagraph Studio, The old Fine Arts Studio, one of the Mack Senn...

Richard M Roberts

It's curious that both Disney and Avery would make use of Langdon's persona and costume when his career was at its lowest ebb. To state some of the particulars for those who may not know: having been out of the U.S. for a year and a half, Langdon, his wife and infant son returned in mid '37 to face...

Richard M Roberts

Hey, watch it, I love HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM. One can definitely say there's no other picture like it. Well, no other American picture-- it's pretty clear they drew some inspiration from A Nous la Liberte. But sure, when it's good, it's pretty good, and when it's bad, it's bad in a different way tha...

Richard M Roberts

Who has the best DVD of DEVIL HORSE? Grapevine or Sinister Cinema? I ask because I have an old French Kodascope print, the last reel is a dupe with Dutch titles, and I would like to see what is missing, if anything, from it. AFI Catalog says it was on 5 reels (lasting 65 minutes at 24 fps) and my K...

Richard M Roberts

So I'm watching Hallelujah, I'm a Bum-- hey, every twenty years you should check in to see if this truly bizarre attempt to do a New York version of a Rene Clair film makes any more sense than it ever did-- and I note that Harry Langdon: plays a character called Egghead. You know, like Egghead: the...

Richard M Roberts

Being a fan of both Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford, I'd love to see them at work together in "OLD CLOTHES" (1925). I liked "RAGMAN" and "THE KID", so this one sounds like it is along the line of those two films. Has anybody seen "OLD CLOTHES"? In what condition does it exist? Danny OLD CLOTHES sur...

Richard M Roberts

Fox Trot Finesse (1915) is on the Slapstick Encyclopedia DVD set from David Shepard/Kino. A Florida Enchantment (1914) is on the Origins of Film DVD set from the Library of Congress. It is a feature. Auntie's Portrait (1915) was sold in Super 8mm and 16mm by Thunderbird Films and their successor Mo...

Richard M Roberts

I'm with Bruce and gagman on this, the score was dismal and it took me much longer to start enjoying the film, I ended up turning off the sound. I do love me some Mr. & Mrs. Drew. Thanks for the heads up, I woul have missed this otherwise! This was my first Drew experiece and I have to confess to b...

Richard M Roberts

The "Frozen Peas" radio ad outtake that was posted earlier I have heard before and it is brilliant. Orson's grinding contempt for the 'creative talent' from the ad agency and the wonderful ways he expresses it is timeless and priceless. If you managed to miss the drunken Paul Masson wine commercial...

Richard M Roberts

While only one Thompson western exists, Thundering Hoofs , (1924)you can see him in as Mary Pickford's leading man in The Love Light (1921), which is on DVD. The Love Light is a Frances Marion story, too...and the dvd is available from Milestone Video! http://www.milestonefilms.com/movie.php/love/ ...

Richard M Roberts

Bob Lipton wrote Isn't there a Jules White short and a cartoon? Surely, any set that has a Jules White short has TOO MANY extras. Yes, the short is a mildly amusing curiosity called AIN'T LOVE CUCKOO (1946) starring Columbia's comedy team of Schilling & Lane, whom I'd never heard of until their fil...

Richard M Roberts

Well, my set of the 4-dvd set has arrived and I'm very pleased. I intend to start going through it as soon as I settle down within the hour. However, while I am very happy to have the set, a hardcopy table of contents would be nice; there is none provided with the disks. Will I have to do up one on...

Richard M Roberts

it was run at the speed it was designed and meant to be run Well, the runtime of the VHS is 68 min, at the Giornate it was shown with 22 fps = 80 min. This speed suited me more, but this might be a matter of opinion. I'm afraid it is. A 1927 seven-reel comedy would have indeed been run at 24 fps wh...

Richard M Roberts

I had not watched any films by Fields before but by now I have seen all the talkies available on DVD and I must say, the silents remain my favourites - it was a feast when we could get 'Running wild' on VHS (even if it is "Running too fast" in this case). it wasn't "running too fast", it was run at...

Richard M Roberts

I also disagree. I always enjoyed this film. This guy's reviews have basically made me dismiss his criticisms as meaningless, especially since he seems to have difficulty realizing that a video release of a public domain film is not a bootleg. PARLOR BEDROOM AND BATH did indeed get a commercial rel...

Richard M Roberts

The version I have is an excellent print from a showing in Oregon. It runs 105 minutes (not the 70 or 77 minutes mentioned on IMDb) and boasts a nice, live piano performance by Keith Taylor. This film was considered to be lost for many decades but exists in a very nice print . 105 minutes! That's a...

Richard M Roberts

I think Cinecon is a success each year due to the tremendous efforts of the committee. Bob, Mike, Stan, Stella, et all do a great job. The film schedule, Grumman’s Egyptian Theatre venue and dealers’ rooms are ideal. On many levels the festival works very well. I enjoy the celebrity component of Ci...

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