Lou Costello and Joel McCrea are college students in Marion Davies' The Fair Co-Ed (1927).

Timothy's Quest (1922) supposedly sports Jetta Goudal as the dying tenement mother of the kids.

Thanks for the English, Ken! So we have 64 minutes out of an original 80 in this print. No sequencing problems jumped out at me (that doesn't mean there aren't any) but I noted three been jumps in the plot. Swanson and Burns are sitting in the apartment and in the next second we are at war. Later Sw...

I don't blame anyone, but it's very unfulfilling. I thank all involved, for the film was, for me anyway, a revealing and entertaining chapter in the Swanson Saga. The film was, reportedly, a "delaying tactic" for Gloria (and her entourage) who didn't yet want to return to Hollywood -- and she hoped...

David Drazin's snappy jazzy score is in. Fits the film perfectly. I'll be getting this one off to the duplicator tomorrow. Thanks to all.

There's zero point in slavishly translating any foreign language into English for intertitles for an American film since we don't have the original intertitles. We have NO way of knowing how accurate the translation FROM the English was (or was ever intended to be). My goal in translating is to stay...

from Rob: Has this been restored? The only time I saw this was on one of those PD discs which circulated some 20 years ago. And re a woman directing and starring in a talkie, there is Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light in 1932... Th print I watched on Amazon said it was digitally remastered. The firs...

The Bigamist (1953) is an interesting drama about a man (Edmond O'Brien) who lives in San Francisco but travels for work to Los Angeles. He somehow gives in because of loneliness and befriends a waitress (Ida Lupino) in LA and gets her pregnant. She doesn't know he married (to Joan Fontaine) in Fri...

ok.ru/video seems safe enough if you use VPN.

Walk a Tightrope (1963) is a British B film that stars Dan Duryea as a hired killer who guns town a woman's husband right before her eyes. But when he's arrested he insists she hired him to kill the man. The poor wifey (Canadian actress Patricia Owens) sobs in court and faints a lot and plays at be...

I did a full translation of this one years ago but left the insertion of titles to someone else. What I ended up with was that the intertitles were a different size from the video. I've tried to "normalize" the two. It's not perfect but it's watchable.

Walk a Tightrope (1963) is a British B film that stars Dan Duryea as a hired killer who guns down a woman's husband right before her eyes. But when he's arrested he insists she hired him to kill the man. The poor wifey (Canadian actress Patricia Owens) sobs in court and faints a lot and plays at be...

Re: sequencing.... I remember talking to Tricia Welsch about this one. She viewed it at LOC years ago for her book on Swanson and agreed the sequencing was bad. Maybe she assume it since it's in the LOC notes.....

No clue where he got it. But this is another instance where LOC has a copy of a print from some other archive. It might be more accessible but it's not any better. But it sounds like the LOC copy added its own logo, implying the giant EYE isn't on their copy.

Translating a film today. I used my old method of typing in the Dutch on Google..... and then tried Google's Jpeg translator.... It was wildly off in many case and seems MUCH less accurate than my typed translation via Google. Maybe it's better with some languages than others? I used a Jpeg translat...

another 2015 note from LOC: - Note: color print. All titles are in Dutch. Preserved as found. Show print is not complete and is out of sequence, especially reel 3 & 4. Faithful of nitrate. LOC logo added.REMA: Use this set for color projection, set 06 for B+W projection, sets -03 and -07 for viewing...

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Only one silent ("City Girl") premiering on TCM, and no primetime silents on Silent Movie Day? I think silent movie fans have been dissed.

Seems like this film has been on before.....

My 2015 notes from Library of Congress.... Same print, judging from this.... We have incomplete and out-of-sequence 35mm elements of “The Humming Bird” (1924) and the titles are in Dutch. The material is in our AFI/Nederlands Filmmuseum Collection. The copyright was renewed by Paramount in 1951 THE ...

Gloria Swanson in The Humming Bird is on YT in a Dutch print with a big giant logo plastered across the middle of the picture. It's also in Dutch....

There's The Lighthouse Keeper (1911) filmed in Cuba by Thomas Ince and with Mary Pickford and J. Farrell MacDonald as stars. I'm including this one as an extra on my next release. There's also a lighthouse (ok, it's in the background) in The Seventh Day (1922), starring Richard Barthelmess and filme...

Let Him Go (2020) is a grim drama with a psychotic twist. It stars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as a married couple in 1950s Montana whose grown son is killed in a horse accident. Fast forward a few years and the dim daughter-in-law marries a creepy guy just to get away from Lane. There's also a 3-...

I always buy their streaming package.... hopefully this will be one of the streamers.

YAY ... another William Haines film!

One thing I've always thought was excellent, invisible filmmaking about Daisy Kenyon is that Crawford, as a single career woman (I think she's an illustrator or a graphic designer), has a bohemian-chic apartment full of exotic furnishings for the 40s... but also as an expression of whatever neurose...

Oh, and an interesting subplot in Daisy Kenyon has lawyer Dana Andrews taking on a case of a Nisei Japanese-American soldier returned from fighting in Europe to find that his family's farmland in California has been taken over by crooked locals. I wonder if this was the first appearance of this issu...

Jean Arthur is the telephone operator with dark hair in Keaton's Seven Chances.

If I remember right, she's also a party guest in Wine of Youth (1924).

The great Joan Crawford gives a solid performance in the grown-up drama Daisy Kenyon (1947), another of those post-war stories that centers on picking up the pieces. This one has her having an affair with a narcissistic lawyer (Dana Andrews) who calls everyone "honey bunch," and a meeting a psychica...

A far better print is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCuVevi5m7g



Dustin got a new scan from LOC. I bought the download for $2.49

Florence Turner and Leo Delaney on a date in A TIN-TYPE ROMANCE (1910) with Jean the Vitagraph Dog and an unknown lifeguard. This was filmed at the Palace Playground at Old Orchard Beach in Maine. The amusement park opened in 1902 and is still there. https://i.postimg.cc/hPnbfLpM/vlcsnap-2023-08-26-...

Mega-movie star Bette Davis turns in an embarrassingly bad performance in a TV movie called The Judge and Jake Wyler in which she plays a retired judge now working as a detective (ya right). On top of this she's also a germophobe/hypochondriac who lives in a sealed off house with a secretary and ass...

Death Becomes Her (1992) is a delicious black comedy about the living dead of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, a satire on the obsession with youth, an obsession that can go wrong. Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn play friends and rivals of long standing. They fight over Bruce Willis (a famous surgeon of a...