Sure the Marx's lost their edge at MGM, but the code would have done that to them wherever they went, just like Fields and Mae West at Paramount and Wheeler and Woolsey at RKO. They all lost a good deal of edge once the code came in. RICHARD M ROBERTS Fields was never overly reliant toward skirting...

THINK SLOW, ACT FAST: BUSTER KEATON SHORTS, 1920-21

Well, at the speeds the SFSFF runs things, that will be more like THINK SLOW, MOVE SLOWER.


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I've seen Allen Jenkins be fairly impressive in a couple of characterizations. Long after Blessed Event, one that stood out was his building manager in Maisie Gets Her Man. His character is copped from a New Yorker story by the screenwriters, and he is just about perfect (and not really comic). He ...

The Warners were Polish Jews who emigrated to Canada, where Jack was born. Eh, it was a joke Gene, but indeed, you hit the nail on the head. Those durn obnoxious Canadians! But, more importantly, don't the plots and music get in the way of every post-Paramount Marx Brothers' picture. I know Groucho...

Speaking of low (brow) comedy...all scenes in '30s Warner's pictures featuring that Triumvirate of Dumb, Hugh Herbert, Allan Jenkins, & Frank McHugh. Most of these films I'd otherwise love, but for me they've been spoiled, usually, by the puerile idiocy of this troika. All three could , if asked, p...

Do sissie-boys count? If so, Alice Guy's CONSEQUENCES OF FEMINISM (1906) and ALGIE, THE MINER (1912)... Then, more to the "point" of this thread: there's Stan Laurel's THE SOILERS (1923) with George Rowe in love with Stan. The Gay Cowboy in THE SOILERS is not George Rowe, it's Glenn Tryon. RICHARD ...

" Ford's ashes were in there in a cardboard box, with a number of other indigent actors who had gone on to the Great Beyond. Did they ever find out who the others were?..." Sadly, the abandonment of cremated remains is an unfortunate practice that funeral service professionals have to deal with. Th...

Well, its only taken about ten years or so to get around to doing this, because it's been more than ten years since I, my then spouse Wendy Warwick White, Brent Walker and Annette D'Agostino- Lloyd tracked down what will now be Ford's penultimate resting place, which was an anonymous community niche...

Wow! An 8mm print of Nanook of the north. It seems to me that would be quite an obscure film to find in 8mm. Well, anyway, it does my heart good to see someone showing real films. There's something magical about watching a an actual film. :D Not that obscure. Blackhawk Films put out a very nice 8mm...

While doing a search for Keystone Studios I came across this very interesting picture on some sort of game site: http://lanoire.wikia.com/wiki/Keystone_Film_Studios" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank The parked car in the far back ground looks like 40's, early 50's. I a...

This is far from late breaking news... RICHARD M ROBERTS I never said, thought or meant to imply that it is. Just answering Jeff's question (even if in my occasional "more-than-he-ever-wanted-to-know" fashion) and adding some new info of my own to what may already have been out there. Well, thats n...

This is far from late breaking news. Randy Skretvedt broke this to the General Collecting Population more than two years ago, as well as putting out an MP3 file of all the tunes in complete and restored form. I discussed this and played a number of the tunes on Rob Bambergers HOT JAZZ SATURDAY NIGHT...

stairstars wrote:Is this film as rare or as historically important as stated?

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/139 ... miere-film

Thanks.

rick

Yes and yes. An original Lumiere print in apparently good condition with original can? You don;t see many of those pop up on ebay.


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According to the commentary on Weiss-O-Rama, there was an Italian epic called LA BIBLIA- an effort to film the entire bible- which the Weiss Brothers bought and chopped up into shorts. Apparently they kept distributing them to the church market well into the sound era. Richard Roberts would have th...

For me it was MODERN TIMES, shown in what must have been a limited run at a normal chain movie theater (Neshaminy Mall Premiere, outside Philadelphia) in 1972, probably to cash in on Chaplin's special Oscar that year. For some reason my older brother and his friend were going, and I tagged along. O...

The Little Tich figure is indeed neat, but it looks like they got the number of fingers wrong (he had six on each hand).


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They sport an 'early talking' charm but don't expect any classic comedy. Most of the gags are reworkings, Arbuckle's voice is not distinctive, he looks tired often and the budgets sink the best of the shorts for me. They look cheaper than the Educationals. Other than that I'll still be getting a co...

lkvg wrote:Will the movies shown recently on TCM be available for purchace any time soon?

Thanks.

Define Soon.


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Yep, it is indeed John George.


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In the late ‘50s the Disney studio put out a live-action comedy called Darby O’Gill and the Little People , which featured leprechauns, Sean Connery, a lot of pseudo-Irish blarney, and a Death Coach steered by a headless driver. I saw this film as a grade-schooler when it was re-released to theater...

Hi Ron. I believe that I heard that The Cameraman was reissued in France in the late 1960s and that the only preprint they could find at the time was a battered 16mm print. I'm pretty sure I saw that version in 1980 at the Vagabond Theatre in Los Angeles. I remember being appalled by the picture qu...

Bleak indeed, but I think it is quite valid to suggest that perhaps Haghefilm's abrupt closure was not as indicative of the collapse of the General Industry as it might suggest. RICHARD M ROBERTS Fair enough Richard, but combined with my talks with the labs (I'm still making preservation negatives ...

I think rather than to bury Haghefilm with derision (and remember, labs and archives work together on restorations and mistakes are made even from the greatest of them when there's a rush to get a print to a premiere), or discuss the socio-economics of film support, I think the overall picture that...

Okay, I'll say it more plainly :shock: Wealthy patrons advanced the cause of film preservation at places like GEH, MOMA and LOC at least as much if not more than government subsidies, and at least in recent years, so has the free market. At least, it's not the clearest field for arguing for governm...

Haghefilm, the motion picture picture lab in the Netherlands that did the finest restoration work in the world, was declared bankrupt this morning and was closed and sealed this afternoon. Their wonderful technicians with unique skills have all been set adrift, and there is now no place in Europe e...

Very Sad News this morning. Dave Snyder,Film Collector and one of the Organizers of the Columbus Cinevent passed away this morning at the age of 54. Dave was also one of Slapsticon's Master Projectionists and put together our Annual Saturday Morning Cartoon Show, adding his own sardonic and witty co...

I need to check their site more often, the Monty Banks Briliantino the Bullfigther looks great! http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/brilliantino-the-bullfighter-1922" target="_blank" target="_blank Looks great, but once again, they kill the comedy dead by transferring it ...

Boris Karloff in the last ten movies he made, at least five of which were not released until after he died. Did anyone else have more unreleased films in the can at the time of their death? RICHARD M ROBERTS Five films featuring Robert Benchley were released after he died. And oddly enough, he look...

Boris Karloff in the last ten movies he made, at least five of which were not released until after he died. Did anyone else have more unreleased films in the can at the time of their death?


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Agreed. I watched GOOD NEWS (1930), a much-lambasted film online, and found it not bad at all. The most disappointing part was Mary Lawlor (although Stanley Smith isn't anything for a girl to get warm over), otherwise I found it similar to other films made from DeSylva, Brown, & Henderson plays, i....