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Richard M Roberts

You wanna know my biggest complaint? Is every year about a month before Cinecon there always seems to be a royal bitch fest about what's wrong with the show. Well, if you could bother to get a schedule published a little sooner than a few weeks before the show, we could bitch about it earlier! RICH...

Richard M Roberts

Donna, how much does an Intellectual Property attorney charge per hour? If you want a Carl Davis score on everything, then commission him to write and conduct scores and hire the musicians and the recording studio, and pay for the zillion and one other expenses that go into putting together an orch...

Richard M Roberts

ONE HYSTERICAL NIGHT survives. Universal preserved it and we showed it at Cinecon a couple of years ago...though the general consensus was that it should have stayed lost. Mike S. (I didn't think it was THAT bad) That must have been the consensus of the pretentiously humourless contingent of the Ci...

Richard M Roberts

I defy you to do so. http://rosscards.com/HartChevalier.gif Believe it or not, Hart and Chevalier were great friends, and apparently made up a triumverate with Rudy Vallee, but then again, it makes sense that three of the tightest guys in Hollywood with a buck should have been great friends. There ...

Richard M Roberts

I defy you to do so. http://rosscards.com/HartChevalier.gif Believe it or not, Hart and Chevalier were great friends, and apparently made up a triumverate with Rudy Vallee, but then again, it makes sense that three of the tightest guys in Hollywood with a buck should have been great friends. There ...

Richard M Roberts

Hey Gang,

As the headline says, a downloadable and printable copy of the booklet for AllDay Entertainment/VCI's DVD release of BECOMING CHARLEY CHASE is available at the Silent Comedy Mafia website. Just click the link:

http://www.silentcomedymafia.com/viewto ... f=10&t=111

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Richard M Roberts

I have collected silent film autograph for more than 20 years and have never encountered a Max Schreck signature on a photo, letter or even a contract. I don't even know what one looks like. He is one the most elusive autograph for collectors. Murnau is also very rare but at least collectors know w...

Richard M Roberts

Hey Folks, Do you realize this weekend would have been the weekend that we'd have had Slapsticon 2009? Well, just to get you gearing up for next year, here's the dates for Slapsticon 2010, they're official: July 15-18, 2010. Thursday through Sunday. The Spectrum Theater, Arlington, Virginia. Mark t...

Richard M Roberts

Hey Folks, Do you realize this weekend would have been the weekend that we'd have had Slapsticon 2009? Well, just to get you gearing up for next year, here's the dates for Slapsticon 2010, they're official: July 15-18, 2010. Thursday through Sunday. The Spectrum Theater, Arlington, Virginia. Mark th...

Richard M Roberts

In any event, I need this conversation like another set of elbows. You may be einar the lonely, I have people to see and things to do. This may be so, but it didnt seem to stop you from joining, even starting this very discussion in the first place with an unpleasant degree of impoliteness and agre...

Richard M Roberts

The hell it isn't. "Art" is not "Art" without some sort of inherent message involved, as well as genuine craft. It is the high end of the meeting point between the two. Allright. (Now that is exactly what Bob Lipton said at the beginning of the dispute. So everyone agrees in the end. :) ) But what ...

Richard M Roberts

I was just watching an old, scratchy print of "Road To Mandalay" that clocked in at around 47 minutes. This can't be the whole film. Does anyone know what part of the story is missing? This would look so good all cleaned up and scored. Danny You're looking at all that survives on THE ROAD TO MANDAL...

Richard M Roberts

Art is not about "messages", whether honest or not. The hell it isn't. "Art" is not "Art" without some sort of inherent message involved, as well as genuine craft. It is the high end of the meeting point between the two. Enough said, those who get it, get it. And you apparently don't. As I said, th...

Richard M Roberts

It's watching a lot of Chaplin's fine, empty comedies, lots of stuff where what he is trying to say is lost in the gagwork or he has nothing to say except "this is funny" and then you reach the last line of CITY LIGHTS. Breaking into an exceedingly pointless conversation....... Okay Lipton, you've ...

Richard M Roberts

Jon does a great job at Cinecon. The best score that I've heard from him was Don Q, Son of Zorro on my one visit to the Niles Silent Film Museum. A true test of an accompanist is having to play for a long, dull silent film. I've seen Phil do that several times at Cinecon. Phil can do a great score ...

Richard M Roberts

Dennis James may have burned a few bridges over the years, but in my opinion he's the greatest organ accompanist alive, possibly the greatest there's ever been or will be. Then you've never heard Phil Carli play the organ, and he does it without the sheet music in front of him. RICHARD M ROBERTS I'...

Richard M Roberts

[quote="Chris Snowden"]Dennis James may have burned a few bridges over the years, but in my opinion he's the greatest organ accompanist alive, possibly the greatest there's ever been or will be. Then you've never heard Phil Carli play the organ, and he does it without the sheet music in front of him...

Richard M Roberts

You cannot leave any remarks on this article, but my question for the reviewer is "did you watch these films on TV in a room by yourself, or on a big screen with a live audience?" http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/29225.html Eyebrows still straight here. Another modern day idiot, nothing mor...

Richard M Roberts

Ned Thanhouser once had an Excel File Database of all Thanhouser films available online. I downloaded it way back when (the date on my file is Dec 2002). There are 6 entries for Jekyll and Hyde. This is the only one listing a 35mm: Title Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Date 1/16/1912 Location LOC Ref QDB 8...

Richard M Roberts

Well, it was either that, or ask whether the standard Chase plot was really any different than that of Three's Company , but I didn't want Richard to yell at me. Chris is not the greatest Charley Chase fan, but it is true that Chase's whole metier was the comedy of embarrassment, heading towards fa...

Richard M Roberts

I checked around, and the King Baggott version of DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE is actually at UCLA, and they do have a loanable print in 35mm. I don't know about 35mm on either of the Sheldon Lewis versions. The interesting thing about all the chunks of the 1920 version I've pieced together is they obvious...

Richard M Roberts

With the Chase Columbias getting some attention lately, I've rewatched a bunch of them recently - they do occasionally get a bad rap, which I think is unfounded. In fact, I think the Columbia series is hardly a decline for Chase - and may be even superior to his final Roach shorts. On the whole, I ...

Richard M Roberts

Howdy folks, A friend of mine is running the Barrymore JEKYLL AND HYDE in October, but would like to do a few other versions of the film that are silent. I know there's a version with Sheldon Lewis from the same year that used to be "out there." There's also DR. PICKLE AND MR. PRYDE and the 1913 ve...

Richard M Roberts

What is an interesting question is what does Sony consider the break -even point on a project like this. You've bandied about numbers to me in private, it might be a good idea to make some of that info public so we all know what we're up against here. RICHARD M ROBERTS It would be a very good idea....

Richard M Roberts

Jesus, Richard, what the hell is wrong with you? Why are you snarking on Stan? As a matter of fact, he WAS the one pushing for us to locate those missing four titles--and was doing so long before I moved over to DVDs. (And for the record, I was asking EVERYBODY if they had 16s of those titles, just...

Richard M Roberts

Many thanks to good buddy Yair for posting my petition address on this site. It's been a wild four year ride just getting Sony to locate elements for the Chase Columbia Shorts. Once the happy info came back on the "Lost 4", all the materials were sent out here to Los Angeles. Elements were needed f...

Richard M Roberts

And don't forget the Queen La of Opar, she was a lot of fun. And the first sound Tarzan yell. This one was really a hoot and i enjoyed it a lot. greta Oh yeah, Oueen La, of whom we used to say "Ooh...la....La!" (couldn't resist), played by Kithnou or whatever the heck her name was. Also a Hot Siste...

Richard M Roberts

The Riddler appears as Charlie Chaplin and robs Bushman's Silent Film Festival's box office receipts, taking a whole $200. And the robbery prompted a grumpy Sam Rubin editorial in the following month's issue of Classic Film Collector . The Riddler ended up in "Collectors Court"! Actually, it's a pr...

Richard M Roberts

Francis X. Bushman on an episode of "Batman" if I'm not mistaken! Where's my prize? In the pride of being correct Mr. Theakston (and that and a nickel......) Yep, Francis X Bushman plays a film collector in the Batman episode DEATH IN SLOW MOTION/THE RIDDLER'S FALSE NOTION (1966). The Riddler appea...

Richard M Roberts

Okay, name the Silent Film Actor who actually got to play a film collector.

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