It's not a bad thought. The one thing I don't want to do is divide up the proceeds between alternate projects... it's not like I've got a Macarthur grant or anything; the most I'm hoping for is $2000 (we've made $1000 past the printing costs already, and I've still got 100 calendars, so it's conceiv...

Is this just so that people can spend more time arguing over what should be on the list than they do watching movies? ;-) I think there are plenty of lists of good films out there, and what you "should" watch varies completely depending on what it is you're expecting to gain from the exercise. It us...

I don't think anyone's mentioned Make Me a Star (1932), a remake of Merton of the Movies , in which Stuart Erwin is the wide-eyed young hopeful trying to become famous. As I recall, the studio uses him for gag footage and then assembles it into a short subject, which is screened near the end of the...

Back to silents: in Will Rogers UNCENSORED MOVIES the premise is that Will has gone from a proper, God-fearing, middle-American town to Hollywood to find out about the horrible morals and goings on there. On his return, he shows movie clips to the locals, including mock-behind the scenes footage, an...

I'm donating the proceeds to the Silent Film Preservation Fellowship Fund, run through www.silentfilm.org. "The fellowship is a collaboration with George Eastman House’s L. Jeffery Selznick School of Film Preservation. Through it, a recent Selznick graduate is invited to San Francisco to restore a r...

I forgot Bed and Sofa , where a couple goes to a Moscow cinema, though we don't see the show. If we get into talkies there are too many to list, of course. One of the Gold DIggers of... movies involves creating Busby Berkeley routines to open movie shows (considering that most movie theaters had alm...

...SHOW PEOPLE, viewing scenes from one of "Peggy Pepper"'s slapstick comedies. ...and of course they also view Bardelys the Magnificent, which I've been spending time with lately (the score is compiled! Next task, photocopying the orchestra parts...) Incidentally, in my opinion, Bardelys is a much...

Ouch! It's at MY Costco, but I don't need it because I ordered it elsewhere before I knew about the discount!

There's a great going-to-the-movies scene in Hoodoo Ann. There's a nice but short movie-theater gag at the end of Fairbanks' The Nut , though it stays in the lobby. ("Two please.") Let's not forget the Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman , though I can't remember the name of the equivalent Roscoe...

Someone somewhere said that Costco has a coupon for a substantial discount on video boxed sets this month, and that the Fox sets are included. Anyway, if you can find it, enjoy it.

I like this recording, however, being a labeled as tango expert (I am not), this is no tango. And they didn't even have a bandoneon, they used an accordion. Of course it's a tango. It's just not an Argentine tango. But by any musical definition, it's a tango. The tango started in Argentina and beca...

The Silent Film Benefit Calendar proceeds in the past have gone to institutions that preserve and make available silent films, including Film Preservation Associates, Lobster Films, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Library of Congress. This year I've decided that the proceeds will go to...

I just saw the boxed set at Costco, but having ordered mine online, I don't have it yet! Should have read the newsgroup...

Anyone know the inside story on this as yet unreleased movie about Hollywood in the '20? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255820/ There are comments on the various youtube excerpts. From the clips it looks an attempt at a camp silent film parody made by people who haven't actually seen silent films, bu...

Besides THE PENALTY and SHERLOCK JR., cast my vote for TCM's score for THE CAMERAMAN. It's awful. Also the Club Foot Orchestra score for JUPITER'S THUNDERBOLTS on the Flicker Alley Melies set. It has a "look at us, aren't we clever" attitude that really spoils the film. Hey! Don't blame Club Foot f...

There are a number of silents and earlie talkies that have individual scenes taking place at Christmastime-- Manslaughter, The Crowd, Strangers May Kiss , for example--but relatively few have Christmas as their central theme in the way that Miracle on 34th Street does, if that's what you mean. Othe...

I had an oddity with the "Mark of Zorro" disk that it would start playing the movie after the first downbeat in the score, but that also turned out to be an issue with the player (this one is an Oppo, which was supposed to be a good solid player and easy to make region-free, but it seems to have som...

Jim, :? So why does the MOMA have the print, and not Warner's? That's easy. It's because MOMA has the print, and not Warner's. Paramount owns the rights to BARBED WIRE but doesn't have a print (there's one at Eastman House). Mary Pickford didn't keep a copy of ROSITA, but there's one in Russia. It'...

I would suggest the name above the bed reads Tom Norton, rather than Tom Morton....and doesn't it look fab !! Imdb lists a couple of pre-1930 Tom Norton characters, none of which look likely as submarine captains. The big curl on that first letter might make it a J for Jim Norton (though the follow...

Id like to add "Blood and Sand" to this. Cant recall which release off the top of my head but much like BOAN it claims an 'original score'. What makes it maddening is it sounds like at least a well thought out loop (it does change about 3 times) but it doesnt match up. The party scenes and wedding ...

A Murphy bed is one that folds up out of the way into a wall cabinet -- much like early ironing boards. So that when you aren't sleeping in it, it's out of the way. Many silent film comedians (notably Charlie Chaplin in ONE A.M.) get tangled in them rising up and down unpredictably, but I'd be surpr...

boblipton wrote:I have spent the last hour cleaning up my dvd collection and am taking a look at the Chaplin mutuals. Watching 1 AM I wonder: what's th earliest recorded use of a Murphy bed in a comedy?


Bob

And a related question -- was there ever a Murphy bed in a film that WASN'T used for comedy?

misspickford9 wrote:[

Personally I am surprised that the big 3 (Olive Thomas, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor) have never been of interest to film makers (or at least that I can find).

It would interest me more than a film about a guy inventing intermittent windshield wipers...

DVD Planet says that mine shipped yesterday, so it should be here sometime this week. I've got my copy (well, this time I'm connected so I got it early), and I'm having fun with it so far. I hadn't seen any of the films except the ones we worked on and CLOUDS. Fred Hodges gives a nice perky score t...

They made a Season Three of the Partridge Family calendar? Yow! Gotta get one!

Actually, I did understand your post on the second reading...

Your calendar will be shipped within mere minutes.

If you are (or if you know) Ronald Larimore of Columbus Ohio, please drop me a note. His two calendars were returned with a "no such address" note, and I'm not sure how else to reach him. Thanks.

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that several of the people who made propaganda films later made several anti war (or anti war tinged) films? D.W. Griffith made several films like that during the 20s, Karl Dane played the evil Germans only to later take part in "The Big Parade", and June ...

There are some WWI scenes in THE VANISHING AMERICAN. The Navajos are getting ripped off by a corrupt Indian agent (well, who hired Noah Beery?) and think that by enlisting in the war they can prove their credentials as U.S. citizens, gaining some respect. There are some trench warfare scenes. Natura...

I think it's significant that Keaton's character is essentially apolitical in THE GENERAL -- he doesn't even think of joining the army until his girlfriend drops hints that he should (at which point it becomes the central issue in his existence). The original chase has nothing to do with politics --...