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by Ray Faiola
Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:26 am
Forum: Collecting and Preservation
Topic: Philately
Replies: 2
Views: 1368

My carp with the Cowboy stamps was that they omitted Harry Carey.
by Ray Faiola
Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:33 am
Forum: Collecting and Preservation
Topic: Variety: Hollywood or dust
Replies: 6
Views: 2516

Digital Shmigital. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars will continue to be spent on THE WIZARD OF OZ every time there's a new digital format. What really frightens the heck out of me is that I have gorgeous 16mm prints of a bunch of Monogram musicals produced by Lindsley Parsons. These picture...
by Ray Faiola
Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:42 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: CAPTAIN FROM KOEPENICK
Replies: 0
Views: 583

CAPTAIN FROM KOEPENICK

Does anybody have a copy of the 1931 German sound version of THE CAPTAIN FROM KOEPENICK? I have two 16mm prints of the 1943 American version (one titled PASSPORT TO HEAVEN; one titled I WAS A CRIMINAL) starring Albert Basserman. The director, Richard Oswald, also directed the earlier German film. I'...
by Ray Faiola
Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:09 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: UCLA Holmes Restorations
Replies: 8
Views: 1959

Yes - these are great pictures. As for Roy William Neill, among the hallmarks of his films are more natural performances as compared to others at Universal such as Rawlins, Kenton and LeBorg. The Sherlock Holmes Company was just that - it was a stock company shepherded by Neill with a regular cast o...
by Ray Faiola
Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:54 am
Forum: Collecting and Preservation
Topic: Rosenblatt recordings restored
Replies: 1
Views: 923

I wonder which recordings these are. I have two 60's Camden albums of Rosenblatt's recordings taken from RCA masters.
by Ray Faiola
Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:24 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Poisonous Biographies
Replies: 131
Views: 18477

I thought MacBride's book on Capra was pretty much a hit job. He seemed intent to tear down everything Capra stood for.
by Ray Faiola
Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:58 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Howard Hawks address?
Replies: 4
Views: 1219

Who lived at 1127 Walnut Avenue?
by Ray Faiola
Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:58 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: The Men Who Knew Too Much
Replies: 7
Views: 1528

I enjoy both pictures very much. One thing Hitchcock did with the remake was to better set-up the musical crescendo as the moment for the assassin to fire his shot. He also had Benny Herrmann play the conductor!! :D I think the above reference to "Clive" was supposed to be "Banks". And I agree that ...
by Ray Faiola
Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:44 pm
Forum: Talkie News
Topic: FRANKENSTEIN TRAILER FOR SALE
Replies: 3
Views: 1365

Just to clarify - I think Universal may have been dealing with the owner of the 35mm nitrate. I inherited the 16mm reduction neg of the BEAU HUNKS, DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN trailers and have made some prints for sale. I had no contact whatsoever with Universal. BUT I have to say the 16mm prints look...
by Ray Faiola
Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:44 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Need some actor IDs
Replies: 10
Views: 2359

Janis Paige - Edward Arnold - Joyce Reynolds - Barbara Brown from Fred De Cordova's WALLFLOWER (Warners 1948)
by Ray Faiola
Thu Jun 03, 2010 5:39 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: ALIAS FRENCH GERTIE (1930)
Replies: 10
Views: 2206

I have a beautiful 16 of GERTIE. It's a fun little parlor picture and any chance to see the Lyons together is a treat. It's based on a play by crime playwright Bayard Veiller (who was married to Margaret Wycherly). Veiller also wrote THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN. The film didn't get very good reviews and...
by Ray Faiola
Fri May 28, 2010 3:17 pm
Forum: Collecting and Preservation
Topic: Scalping classic movie collectibles
Replies: 14
Views: 5418

Guess its time to consign to Christies my original silver-box Nostalgia Merchant betamax tapes!
by Ray Faiola
Wed May 26, 2010 7:18 am
Forum: Music of the Era
Topic: How did you get into music of the era?
Replies: 33
Views: 14708

And I suppose your house is covered with Martin Paint?!?!!?
by Ray Faiola
Wed May 26, 2010 7:18 am
Forum: Music of the Era
Topic: Johnny Crawford
Replies: 3
Views: 2701

Johnny sang with Vince Giordano's Nighthawks for a while.
by Ray Faiola
Tue May 25, 2010 6:00 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: MAMMY Restoration
Replies: 67
Views: 10249

CoffeeDan wrote:Although the song "My Mammy" was interpolated into the score of Bombo in 1920, Al Jolson did not record the song until 1928, when it became a #2 hit in the summer of that year.
And, of course, the song was actually introduced by William Frawley!
by Ray Faiola
Mon May 24, 2010 9:05 am
Forum: Music of the Era
Topic: How did you get into music of the era?
Replies: 33
Views: 14708

Like most people my age, it all started with seeing THE JOLSON STORY on Million Dollar Movie. Over and over and over again..!
by Ray Faiola
Mon May 24, 2010 9:02 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Persistence of Academy Ratio
Replies: 15
Views: 6819

Coppola made ONE FROM THE HEART in 1982, composed and released at 1:37. I saw it at Radio City.
by Ray Faiola
Fri May 14, 2010 11:15 am
Forum: Collecting and Preservation
Topic: 35mm BIRTH OF A NATION with Vitaphone disks on eBay
Replies: 6
Views: 2452

The original 1930 reissue prints were on "Peach Blow" stock. Is the eBay print?
by Ray Faiola
Tue May 04, 2010 9:52 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Your "Holy Grail" of Talkies
Replies: 44
Views: 12734

Definitely THE MONKEY'S PAW.
by Ray Faiola
Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:17 pm
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: HOUSE OF WAX - Premiere
Replies: 11
Views: 2411

:46 is Jack Warner and William T. Orr (Jack's son-in-law)
by Ray Faiola
Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:05 pm
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: MAMMY Restoration
Replies: 67
Views: 10249

By the way, I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but the "reporter" in the trailer to MAMMY is actor Grant Withers, who later became part of the John Ford stock company.
by Ray Faiola
Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:22 am
Forum: Collecting and Preservation
Topic: KNDY's photos that need identification
Replies: 51
Views: 12660

6 - Johnny Weissmuller & Maureen O'Sullivan TARZAN THE APE MAN 1932

8 - Basil Rathbone ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 1939

10 - Our Gang and Bing Crosby. The gang was obviously visiting pal and former Roach kiddie Edith Fellows on the set of PENNIES FROM HEAVEN.
by Ray Faiola
Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:11 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: MAMMY Restoration
Replies: 67
Views: 10249

"Knights of the Road" and "Call of the South" were never in the released film. They do not appear on the original cue sheets of the musical score and soundtrack. Most likely they were included in advance publicity from which critics often took credits and other salient info for their reviews. The sa...
by Ray Faiola
Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:00 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: The end of civiization as we know it.
Replies: 59
Views: 10753

I'd like to put in a word for 1959: among others, there were RIO BRAVO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SOME LIKE IT HOT, BEN-HUR, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, IMITATION OF LIFE, ANATOMY OF A MURDER, DARBY O'GILL, SLEEPING BEAUTY, GREEN MANSIONS, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, RIDE LONESOME, LI'L ABN...
by Ray Faiola
Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:51 am
Forum: Silent News
Topic: Rome Sentinel: Let Capitol audience judge ‘Birth of a Nation
Replies: 162
Views: 27664

Gee whiz, I'm showing THE GREEN PASTURES next month!!
by Ray Faiola
Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:30 pm
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Can anyone name this Technicolor short subject?
Replies: 4
Views: 1214

William and Charles Tannen were the sons of character actor Julius Tannen. Charles was a fixture at Fox.
by Ray Faiola
Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:58 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Danger Lights in 70mm?
Replies: 3
Views: 1049

Well, since it's PD you're shooting dice with DVD's. Best bet is to record it from TCM. And if you like trains be on the lookout for RKO's THE SILVER STREAK as well. I can't begin to imagine what it would have been like seeing DANGER LIGHTS in 65mm. I'm sure Dick can comment on the 35, but every inc...
by Ray Faiola
Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:34 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Leo Sulky in Laurel and Hardy films
Replies: 7
Views: 1610

Just as a follow-up, for years I thought Russ Powell was Tom Ricketts because they both played burgers in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. Finally got that one straightened out though!
by Ray Faiola
Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:08 am
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Leo Sulky in Laurel and Hardy films
Replies: 7
Views: 1610

Here are some films not in Leo's IMDB listing: SWEETHEARTS ON PARADE HARVEY SON OF KONG MODERN TIMES THE GREAT DICTATOR 42ND STREET YANKEE DOODLE DANDY SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY (don't remember what sequence) These are films I have in 16 in which I spotted Leo (who I thought was Alex -...
by Ray Faiola
Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:11 pm
Forum: Talking About Talkies
Topic: Leo Sulky in Laurel and Hardy films
Replies: 7
Views: 1610

Brent - you've cleared up a big confusion for me. I always thought that was Alex Woloshin. The mixup came with DESTRY RIDES AGAIN as they both play bartenders. Now I have a bunch of cast lists to update in my film collection!!

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