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Rodney

Boy, you got me. I make no claims to an afficionada of the Montanian Oeuvre. Is there anyone here who has vast understanding of the Montana's career arc? Chris Snowdon, maybe? Fred I do know that in DOUBLING FOR ROMEO (released October 21, 1921, so some months after the scandal) Will Rogers makes a...

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The subject of actors supporting or not supporting Roscoe publically has been brought up -- I only know what I read in "The Day the Laughter Stopped," but it was my impression that the defense considered that a lot of the hullaballoo about the case was due to people having it up to here with those H...

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Rodney, :D I'll definitely be ordering. Put together a Renee Adoree, or Corinne Griffith, maybe Laura La Plante, Calander, and I'll order a couple dozen of 'em! :lol: It's an interesting idea -- we could have a "design your own" calendar where you pick the photos for each month, and I run them off!...

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Now that November is almost over, I want to encourage those who want a 2009 Silent Film Benefit Calendar to order theirs soon. I'll be gone a chunk of next week for Turkey-day, so you'll get 'em quicker if you order them before I head out. I've covered all printing costs by now, so all of the procee...

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Now you are telling me basically there is little chance we would get the restored THE EAGLE with the Davis score on DVD? No, I didn't say that. I said that it's unlikely that we'd get an expensive re-release of THE GODLESS GIRL after it was already released last year -- this is not due to any insid...

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I have seen THE GODLESS GIRL with the Davis score, and it is fantastic. Personally I think this is one of De Mille's two or three best films. I was disappointed that Image released the film with a much lesser score, but still hope that Kino might make the Photo-play version available on DVD soon. T...

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GEH, not UCLA. Not surprisingly, GEH, who aren't that keen on video release on the best of days, have not dropped their restored print off at Grapevine for a quick gray-market transfer to DVD... I wouldn't say that GEH isn't keen on video release -- their BLUE BIRD restoration is quite nice if I sa...

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Besides our show in Fayetteville Arkansas on Wednesday 11/5/08 (listed in a separate posting), we'll be presenting our new score for REDSKIN in Oklahoma City this Thursday. The free Fayetteville show will be DVD projection (but it's free), and the Oklahoma City show is quite reasonable and uses a ne...

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I had this idea 10 years ago and didn't do anything with it. Glad to see someone follow through!!! Can you purchase previous calendars as well?? I finally looked at my file drawer, and I have three spare copies of 2005 (Nita Naldi on the cover) and 2007 (Alla Nazimova). I also have nine spare copie...

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One correction to this review: the piano score for Traffic in Souls was provided not by me, but by the ever-talented Philip Carli. I did score the shorts. Since, in THE CALL OF THE CITY, the hero writes to his sister about how he thinks there's an "only girl" for him somewhere, you'll hear excerpts ...

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Since our score for WAY DOWN EAST will be released by Kino in two weeks, I've posted two love theme mp3s at http://www.mont-alto.com/recordings.html#WayDownEast. J.S. Zamecnik's Atonement is our opening music, and the theme for the "true love" between David and Anna. The bitter-sweet Mountain Song (...

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I can't go without mentioning "The Crimes of Dr Mabuse"- the english recut of the Lang films. The adulterous relationship between Countess Told and the detective is solved by making the Count and Countess a Brother and Sister. In the UK releases of "The Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman," the ...

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If I could just make a quick comment. Standing ovations have lost their meaning over the last 30 years. It used to be rather rare but now it has become commonplace. It's a shame because it used to stand for something, a performance that was extraordinary, now it's almost obligatory. In my experienc...

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Heh, I wonder if anyone can ID the film from those 2 title cards in that photo. What about GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1928) where Emerson and Loos worked together writing the titles? One of the rich gentlemen in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES is Henry Spoffard, so that would fit the "Henry awakens to the ...

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Well, not in the picture with Anita Loos. Though there may have been more than one procedure. It's also possible that they made those cards up just for the photo shoot. True. Or -- that picture is in negative too, and Anita Loos was actually black! We'd really have to see the same card "in the fles...

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FrankFay wrote:Perhaps to get white titles on black they just used negative footage?

Well, not in the picture with Anita Loos. Though there may have been more than one procedure.

Rodney

In the program notes for THE KID BROTHER at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, it was noted that Harold Lloyd was very impressed by TOL'ABLE DAVID, and that the film was consciously a sort of remake. That's not to say it doesn't take elements from, or resemble for random reasons, other earlier ...

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Four hours after it showed up, I got email conformation they had shipped. Bob Well, you get the service you pay for :-) (I don't like to send shipping confirmation until I know it's in the mail box, and if I forget to log back in when I get home, it can be a day or two before I remember to click th...

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Well, having returned from the post office to mail off the first batch of calendars (16 already! Thanks!) I learned that these need to be sent as First Class Packages, not First Class Envelopes. Those who have ordered already, don't worry about it. For those who want to send Paypal payments, the rev...

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Based on the drawing these look similar to those party noise-makers, so I'm wondering if the use of these dialog balloons would be accompanied by a shrill raspberry sound. I'd like to have the one from the drawing -- "Oh! The fraud!" -- as I think it could be useful in many circumstances. I'm sure o...

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Glad to hear that BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT is right on schedule. Also exciting news about REDSKIN too. Any chance you might have been approached by warner's to score HER WILD OAT??? Or maybe THE FAIR CO-ED??? Charles Tabesh told me back in July, that these films were on TCM'S Radar. What ever that m...

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Rodney, How are you coming along with the score to BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT? The Antonio Coppola piano score used on the France 3 broadcast, was actually quite good. To be truthful, I wouldn't mind it being included as an alternate track. Any idea when you own score will be ready to go? We're aimin...

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I have received the 2009 Silent Film Benefit Calendars from the printer, and they look beautiful. This year's theme is "lost films," and you'll get pictures from silent films ranging from The Cabaret Girl to The Lost Squadron , and stars ranging from Clara Bow to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The calendar a...

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I haven't seen the new Kino release, but the Mont Alto release (and the Alloy Orchestra release) are both fine video transfers as well, though a few years older. It will be interesting to see how they compare. And gagman, if you want to hear some excerpts of the Mont Alto score, head on over to the ...

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Sometimes you can find beautiful hand-tinted art titles, if the film in question has original (not recreated) tints. A good example is in AFFAIRS OF ANATOL; one title card includes a rose at the bottom. The petals are tinted pink, the leaves green, for a beautiful effect. One of my favorite title c...

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Well, I can't help you with the decorated capitals (which are probably hand-lettered, and probably what you actually want), but I grabbed a screen-shot of the other letters in the "But Rome knew naught" subtitle and uploaded it into What-The-Font. It identified a pretty close match in URW Artcraft B...

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And thinking of your other silentmovieblog post on the complaints about exhibitors not profiting from Harold Lloyd's movies, The Keeper of the Bees may also have been a good performer for more theaters because it was cheap to get. You don't need to sell a lot of tickets to improve over having Pathe ...

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I just called the printer, and they should be done Tuesday. I'm not going to get ahead of myself on the announcement, because I want to re-evaluate my mailing scheme. The Priority Mail envelopes were extremely convenient (and the envelopes were free) but I can probably save everyone a few bucks by b...

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Michael Mortilla wrote:Well that brings up an interesting idea. Keep the effects and dramatize the sermon! Oh wait, isn't that what Griffith did?

Very funny! Thanks for that...

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http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=10139 "Revisiting this costume drama, one is struck by how thoroughly enjoyable it is from start to finish. ...this is probably the best presentation of this classic to date." -- Mark Zimmer This version of The Mark of Zorro is only available direc...

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Don't forget your 2009 calendar!

Oklahoma City: REDSKIN (1928), Thursday November 6

Some new photoplay music online

2009 Silent Film Calendar now shipping! [old thread]

Digitally Obsessed reviews Mont Alto's THE MARK OF ZORRO