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- Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:05 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Nitrate ID needed. frame closeups - submarine attack!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5187
There are a few edge code experts on this forum who may be able to figure out what year it was made in. Is it possible for you to see what is on the sailor's cap? It should have the name of the ship or fleet. It is probably an English or American WW I movie because of the commander's name, Tom Mort...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:59 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Nitrate ID needed. frame closeups - submarine attack!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5187
Nitrate ID needed. frame closeups - submarine attack!
I have a nitrate fragment that I need help identifying. This is from a Pathe nitrate fragment. I believe I bought this with a box of others from someone in the UK a while back. A submarine commander is in the hospital. Has a flash back of his submarine being attacked. Nurse turns on a light and comf...
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:11 pm
- Forum: Talking About Talkies
- Topic: VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD on video?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6384
Darren, The Andy Clyde you have is certainly the one I saw. The others you have I have not seen. I don't think anyone has seen the Lugosi / Harlow reel since the 1930s. :wink: No one including Lugosi and Harlow authors knew about it either. A nice find. :) It looks like "Voice Of Hollywood" is amon...
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:21 pm
- Forum: Talking About Talkies
- Topic: VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD on video?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6384
Okay. I just dug up that reel. :) Wouldn't be able to sleep until I found and viewed it. :) This is a Niles print with photochemical problems in the image area. The print stock is in great shape but the 35mm they copied it from has lots of splices. Another one from 1931. Probably also from series B....
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:54 pm
- Forum: Talking About Talkies
- Topic: VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD on video?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6384
Darren, who is the announcer on the print you have? I have seen about 8 of the Voice of Hollywood's and maybe you have one I haven't seen. The prints are usually crappy, too. I don't know if that one you posted from YouTube is from the second series, but I did get to see one from that series last m...
- Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Exchange
- Topic: Trading dvds...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4117
Re: Trades
7,000 ??!?!!?Sam Spade wrote:I have over 7,000 films. Will trade.
John
I have less than a hunded!!
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:08 am
- Forum: Talking About Talkies
- Topic: VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD on video?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6384
VOICE OF HOLLYWOOD on video?
These are very entertaining and interesting time capsules. 26 installments of the first series were released from Jan 1930 to March 1931. All public domain and the ones I've seen run about 8 minutes. However, not many seem to have made it to home video. Can anyone tell me what episodes are out there...
- Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:13 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Has anyone seen "We're in the Navy Now" (1926)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2262
- Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:52 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: fantasy fairie tail "Fantasma" (1914) ever been on
- Replies: 1
- Views: 973
fantasy fairie tail "Fantasma" (1914) ever been on
Edison's studios produced a fantasy film in 1914 called Fantasma. It exists in archives. Has it ever been on video? A deteroirating reel was sold on eBay for $522.50 back in early 2006.:shock: Has anyone here seen it? Looks like a doozy! The AFI site says this... Princess Lena, the fiancée of Prince...
- Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:48 pm
- Forum: Collecting and Preservation
- Topic: Neat Kodak film ad on eBay
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1237
Neat Kodak film ad on eBay
I am not the seller or know who the seller is. There is a neat Kodak Cinegraph promotional film on eBay. It gives short examples of what is available from the catalog. I have one of these and it came with a Kodascope rental catalog. It is not hard to find them in great shape because the 50 ft films ...
- Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:12 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Has anyone seen "We're in the Navy Now" (1926)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2262
Has anyone seen "We're in the Navy Now" (1926)
Has anyone seen "We're in the Navy Now" (1926)?
It was released as a Kodascope but doesn't seem to be on video.
Can anyone comment on this Wallace Berry feature?
It was released as a Kodascope but doesn't seem to be on video.
Can anyone comment on this Wallace Berry feature?
- Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:01 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Silent Era Handcrank Projector Questions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2784
Silent Era Handcrank Projector Questions
I've noticed a number of silent era Power's Cameragraph projectors on ebay recently. They seemed to have been produced into the 1920s. Optigraphs, originally sold by Sears, are much more rarer. I think they stopped making them before 1910. Am I right? Does anyone have a rundown of the different comp...
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:12 am
- Forum: Collecting and Preservation
- Topic: More on silent era postcards
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5203
- Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:39 pm
- Forum: Collecting and Preservation
- Topic: More on silent era postcards
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5203
That reminded me that I had two new postcards to add to that site. Which I just did. Plus I rescanned all the old postcards, so they should look better now. http://cinemaplayerspostalantiquities.com/Pauline%20Frederick.HTML Mark Your post cards look great on your site. :) Was Ross Verlag an actual ...
- Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:06 am
- Forum: Talking About Talkies
- Topic: "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929)
- Replies: 72
- Views: 26584
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:35 pm
- Forum: Collecting and Preservation
- Topic: Digital restoration of THE ROBE (1953)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7127
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:53 am
- Forum: Collecting and Preservation
- Topic: Unpublished Lon Chaney pics?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1754
I don't think I have seen them before. Great stuff! Here is something you haven't seen before as well. Some screen grabs from a 2 minute nitrate fragment I have of a lost Lon Chaney film called Tangled Hearts (1916) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/3031748250_f2a8bbeecd.jpg http://farm4.static.f...
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:52 am
- Forum: Collecting and Preservation
- Topic: More on silent era postcards
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5203
Re: More on silent era postcards
For those who might be interested, I have updated my website on Ross Verlag, the vintage German movie star postcard publisher. www.rosscards.com Thanks! Mark Mark, Thanks for the excellent site! I have some Clara Bow cards from this era. No one could make postcards as great as the Germans could in ...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:54 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: The First 'Time Travel' Story?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1974
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:54 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Masterpieces You Don't Really Care For
- Replies: 469
- Views: 108363
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:46 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Masterpieces You Don't Really Care For
- Replies: 469
- Views: 108363
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:32 pm
- Forum: Talking About Talkies
- Topic: "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (1929)
- Replies: 72
- Views: 26584
Just a reminder that two extracts from "Gold Diggers of Broadway" are included in the new Busby Berkeley Volume 2 collection. They are extras on the "Gold Diggers of 1937" DVD. Still working my way through this box set but so far the films I have not seen in a long time, or ever, seem very lame ind...
- Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:35 pm
- Forum: Silent News
- Topic: Another Metropolis Complete Print in South America???
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4530
- Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:26 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Kineto Review reel help needed. Charles Urban connection??
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2100
Definitely a Charles Urban production, and definitely his signature. Kineto Review was a magazine series produced by Urban Motion Pictures Industries. It was first issued in February 1921. Contents were a mixture of new material and Urban library material (some of it pre-war). Not sure when it stop...
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:25 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Kineto Review reel help needed. Charles Urban connection??
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2100
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:09 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Kineto Review reel help needed. Charles Urban connection??
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2100
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9904E1D7123CE533A25752C2A9649C946095D6CF&oref=slogin Here's a free link to the article. Nature's Handiwork is mentioned in the last paragraph. Drat. It asks me repeatedly to log in and when I finally get to a page that dosen't it says article n...
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:44 pm
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Kineto Review reel help needed. Charles Urban connection??
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2100
This film was shown at the Capitol in NYC in February 1921. There's a brief reference to it in the NYT of Feb 21 (p19). Charles Urban was the producer. The blurry logo might be his signature. Jim Gettys Jim, Thanks for the information. Did you get that info from the newspaper archives site? Is ther...
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:54 am
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Kineto Review reel help needed. Charles Urban connection??
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2100
Kineto Review reel help needed. Charles Urban connection??
A reel came in today called "Nature's Handywork." Its a scientific one reeler showing the life of insects. However, I am having a hard time putting a date on this. It was never copyrighted. It was produced as part of the Kineto Review series. Anyone know the story behind this film or its producers? ...
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:04 am
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Early 3-D footage restored (with pics)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 918
Re: Early 3-D footage restored (with pics)
The digital improvements are definately revealing.Jack Theakston wrote:http://www.3dmovingpictures.com/crespineldemo.html
I have a pair of "Shadowgrams" glasses somewhere.
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 1:32 am
- Forum: Talking About Silents
- Topic: Surviving Corinne Griffith titles & availability thereof
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11162
Regarding BLACK OXEN. If I recall correctly, wasn't this listed as a rental in the Kodascope catalog? It is a surprisingly good film. I remember seeing this on TV or legit DVD in recent years and it seemed complete. www.clarabow.net says that it was restored and exist complete on 35mm. http://www.cl...