I appreciate it. I had searched AMPAS but only through the King Vidor collection. So thanks for putting me on the right track.

I'm curious: Does anybody know of the location/availability of a script, titled "The Actor (A Story That Actually Happened)"? King Vidor wrote in (I think) the late 1970s, based on the life of James Murray, who played the lead in Vidor's The Crowd. A copy of it seems to have been sold on the rare bo...

Dear Nitratevillians: I just completed an online filmography for my book Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture . It’s not a conventional filmography in the sense of providing cast and credit information on individual titles. Rather it’s a statistical overview of shor...

Thanks, all. I have some of the C&M RKO stuff on DVD, both through the Looser Than Loose discs as well as on others: Alibi Bye Bye, Druggist's Dilemma, Everything's Ducky, Fits in a Fiddle, Gay Nighties, Hey Nanny Nanny, Iceman's Ball, In the Devildog House, In a Pig's Eye, Jitters the Butler, Kicki...

In 1947, the New Yorker published a four-part profile of Bobby Clark (of Clark and McCullough fame). In a passage that interested me, the author claims that most of the team’s Fox shorts were straight adaptations of their successful burlesque and vaudeville skits. Here’s the bit, published Sept. 27,...

It's The Passer-By. Dir. Oscar Apfel, who, I believe, was on set to help out DeMille during the latter's debut, The Squaw Man (1914).

And I hate to correct you, but A SUBMARINE PIRATE was one of the first Keystone-Triangles in production, it had a long on and off shoot starting 5/15/1915 and ending 10/13/1915. RICHARD M ROBERTS True, true, but ASP is actually by no means as fast as the other films you cite. In fact, at the time o...

There is, in fact, an article in which Sennett discusses frame rates for Keystones (from the Triangle period). It's titled "Sennett on Projection of Keystones," and dates from the Nov. 20, 1915, issue of The Triangle, p. 2. I don't have the entire article on my computer, but I do have the following...

Eh, no. Lets look at that quote again: “—There’s worse, since projectors no longer run at the original speed of 18 frames per second, but at 24 frames per second to improve the restitution of sound films-----“ Bromberg does not say "the films original speed", or "the speed the Chaplin films were me...

The Domitor Association for the Study of Early Cinema announces three evenings of early cinema rarities and restorations, accompanying its four-day conference in Toronto, Canada, June 13-16, 2010. The screenings offer showcases from three international archives, and are open to the public. June 14, ...

Well, I was simply reporting the explanations given to me when I made the original inquiry. The archivist's response to my question about the circulation of the Cinematek's own print was a firm no; the response to my question about striking a new print seemed instead to indicate instead a general re...

Thanks, guys, for all these replies and suggestions. I'll be sure to pass them along. If The Fair Co-Ed screened in LA last year, I imagine that might nix the possibility of another screening so soon. But these are all great suggestions. Thanks, again.

Rob King

Hello all: A colleague of mine is trying to put together a small screening series of college-set movies. He's been trying to find the William Haines film "Brown of Harvard" (1926) in a decent 35mm print, to be paired with "The Freshman," as the silent entries in the series. Alas, no joy, since none ...

One way to gauge the small-town appeal of certain stars might be to look at the "Answer Man" or "Questions and Answers" sections that were run in magazines like Motion Picture (Story) Magazine and Photoplay during the publications' early years. These were weekly columns listing answers to readers' q...

Good to hear from you, Elif. The screening of Perils of Pauline is in conjunction with the release of Ben Singer and Charlie Keil's edited volume, "Screen Decades: The 1910s." It's the fourteenth episode we'll be screening (fourteenth, that is, from the original US release; fifth, if you're talking ...

Bruce, many thanks for your post above. Extremely generous and extremely valuable. It's my understanding, Greta, that Perils was selected for preservation by the LoC just last year, so hopefully a new translation will take care of the slanderous accusations about Pauline's "immor[t]ality."

Thanks so much for this, James. I'm gradually piecing together the program note on this film for the Pordenone festival this year ... Perils of Pauline has turned out to be both one of the most difficult screenings to arrange and one of the most confusing entries to write because of (i) lack of 35mm...

Thanks for the information, James. Just to clarify the chronology here: the original serial is 1914, the European re-edit 1916; but then Pathé re-releases an English-language version of the European edit in 1920. I suppose it's this that accounts for the bizarre English in the intertitles of the ext...

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Hello all! I wanted to know if anyone could help me out with a Perils of Pauline episode title. The episode in question is no. 14 (from the series' original 20-chapter US run), first released in October 1914. The action involves Pauline and Harry being kidnapped,...