Today's Kickstarter update covers a connection that my book has with silent film DVD company Undercrank Productions and.... Wayne's World!

111% funded with 7 days to go!!

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A new update has been added to the crowdfunding campaign.

It shows another peek at what kind of stuff is in the book.

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I just scanned and uploaded the complete music sheet for "The Moving Picture Ball" copyrighted in 1920. https://archive.org/details/moving_picture_ball" target="_blank The scant scans I found on the internet are missing the last page which is an advertisement. And here you have it in color and downl...

boblipton wrote:Well, it was $1 shy, so I added a dollar to my pledge. Now it will fund regardless.

Bob

Thanks! Every dollar counts!

100% funded!!

Thank you all who pledged!!

A stretch goal is going to be posted tonight.

French film co-directed by Loie Fuller. "Le lys de la vie" (1920).

Are there any archive holdings for this or is it a lost film?

As of tonight the funding is at 89% with 17 days to go! Thank you all who have pledged so far! Tonight's update tells you a little bit about the material that it is centered around and the origins of my book. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120756153/cover-and-illustrations-for-a-new-book-on-ea...

Learn a little about early movie camera and projector equipment inventor Eberhard Schneider in my upcoming book "How to Film Moving Pictures in the 1910's."

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Are there any archival holdings for The Coming of Lone Wolf (1914 Kalem)? Full or partial prints?

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May Irwin is an ancestor of mine. She was a Canadian and came from fine Methodist stock. But she was considered a black sheep and was written out of my family history. My brother discovered her when he was doing our genealogy I've wondered if the same happened to other "shameful" performers like Lo...

Today's update takes a peek at industrialized film production at Universal City in 1914.


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Frustrating. Maybe one of his talkies is a phonetic foreign language version.

Are there any archival holdings for "Dante's Inferno" (1924)?

Dante's Inferno
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boblipton wrote:Almost two-thirds funded! Where else did you mention this Kickstarter, Darren?

Bob

Here, Facebook and the 35mm forum.

1/3 more to go!

50% funded in three days!?!?!?!? I am both stunned and grateful. Thank you all who have pledged! 27 days 50% more to go! I just posted two updates. One describes what the book is about and shows a little bit of what is in it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120756153/cover-and-illustrations-for...

WOW

Over 30% funded within 20 hours. Thank you all SO much!

The first update will be posted Sunday. It will detail what is in the book.

No eBook planned for now.

Thank you for your pledge! You are the first one!

I have just launched a crowd funding campaign for the production costs of my new second illustrated book "How to Film Moving Pictures in the 1910's". It will be 240 pages and printed in both a hard and soft cover versions. Make a pledge to bring this to reality! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

Years ago there was a rumor that an odd reel or two was found in Italy but I never heard anything else about it. Urban legends.

Flicker Alley still has a few titles discounted on their site.

Cant find it online.

Is the restoration of "Fly Low Jack and the Game" (1927) viewable anywhere?

Here is one of the scant info I can find on it. https://debergeracproductions.com/2014/ ... game-1927/" target="_blank

NotSoSilent wrote:

Darren Nemeth wrote:For those who read lips they are fun also.

Oh darn, what did I miss?

In the monvie werhe Lon played the doctor there is one cringe worthy line in the traveling show melodrama style.

Anyone know what original film elements survive from this film? Used for the various restorations?

Do the original negs survive or are they derived from DeMille's personal prints?

I wish more Universal films from this era survived. The scant few that I've seen are above par in visuals and story line. The films on the LON CHANEY: BEFORE THE THOUSAND FACES are no exception.

Even with missing footage they are still fun to watch.

For those who read lips they are fun also.

I have 600dpi scans of a number of original Phantom stereoviews I used to have on a harddrive somewhere. If interested let me know and I will look for them. And also there is album on my facebook page where I assembled frames from two versions of Phantom to make 3D photos. https://www.facebook.com/1...

Prices realized.

And Darren, if you want temporary access to those reels, we can always talk. I am not a black hole, and always like to share. That's what life is all about, and why David Shepard (who passed away last year, and donated all his money to film institutions) and ourselves at Lobster spend most of our t...

That's the seller. The prints went to two different bidders. The Big Business print went for $787.77, which is kind of ridiculous considering this short was fully preserved by LoC and this particular print is missing about a whopping 2.5 minutes. Most, if not all, of these prints will be from forei...

Hi Dana. Living in Paris, asking me if I am used to dealing with teh CNC archive is like asking me if I know about the Eiffel tower. Of course, I work every day with the CNC film archive and the Cinemathèque française. Wtching films there is complex, must be planned in advance, but it is always pos...

1. If the experts on this site feel the image quality for the 6 films (one of them is 16mm) exceeds that of other known copies, here is what I propose. 2. Mr Nemeth sends me a PM telling which films he will be bidding on, and his top bid for each. 3. Then, I will, within my limited means, add to hi...

I am printing a book early next year and part of it will show examples of how stage magic influenced some early films. A few screen caps from DVDs will be used. All of the films are from the 1890s - 1910s and public domain. For example "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" (1906). How to I give proper cr...