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Hey, thanks for the info, where did you get it? The issue is the March 04, 1933 issue. The substitute cover is by Rea Irvin. And of course a search of covers by Rea Irvin does not turn up this issue. Argh! Elsewhere in the issue is a Thurber cartoon on page four that is similarly not indexed. Argh! ...

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As far as issues go I doubt there is anything extra on the DVDs. I bought this five or so years ago and pretty much shelved it in disgust. I recently learned how to get the data off the DVDs and on to harddrive. Doing so requires an update to an SQL database. It hadn't twigged to me before that the ...

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PINKY Harpo’s name in Duck Soup—Suck Dupe? —is Pinky, which refers to pink hair we can’t see as pink (the film is black-and-white) and must believe is pink, based on the word alone. The name Pinky points to Harpo’s revolutionary (antimasculine) difference from regular color. Pinky might also mean p...

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In my years of collecting various stuff this set probably has widest gap between my excitement in hearing about it being released to my disappointment with the final product. Such a lost opportunity. Even though their reliance on building the index from the card catalogue has led to several gaps it ...

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Does anyone else have the New Yorker on DVD? I finally got around to installing the hack allowing the DVDs to be loaded to a harddrive for faster retrieval. I've started to notice that the search engine is shockingly bad. Looks like the index was built off the card catalogue and if that catalogue wa...

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How about Piccadilly (1929) and The Italian Straw Hat (1928) as items not yet mentioned. Even though Piccadilly contradicts this criteria, I'd try to stay away from 'serious' pics for the most part because restrictions of the time limiting what could be addressed can make many films look a little qu...

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Here's four photos by Mann on the same day:

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I think the pic here shows how Viola is holding up Buster. It looks like he's sitting on the top of a well concealed fence. Looks like Buster's right butt cheek is on the fence and Viola's hand is balancing him on the thigh. Not hard hard to guess who likely composed the shot.

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As a kid I loved the Adamson book on the Marxes and remember loving the humour. I've leafed through the book since then and am not quite so enchanted with the humour. Ok, I'm revising my revision. I leafed through the book again and the humour does still and up. If an update ever did happen it'd li...

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I also come down on the plus side for Louvish's Fields bio. Robert, how does it compare for you to Jim Curtis' bio on Fields? The Curtis bio is definitely better, no question there. When I said I came down on the plus side for Louvish I meant I thought the book was worthwhile (especially when it ca...

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Well this review gives Wesso's thoughts on the Louvish book and also explains why he hasn't done a book. Some relevant quotes: Wesolowski offers Monkey Business the highest praise for an archivist who has devoted his life to maintaining the Groucho files: "It breaks new ground," he says. "Louvish's ...

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If I remember right, didn't Maltin introduce this clip as an outtake from a movietone newsreel? Maybe the final newsreel would shed light.

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Straying pretty far from the topic there was a vaudeville act I've heard of- the performer started as a man, then took off his hat to reveal a cascade of long curls. After performing as a woman the wig was unexpectedly removed. Apparently the guy was convincing enough to have everyone wondering. M....

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I hope it's on YouTube somewhere but I have a memory of Maureen O'Sullivan on Letterman talking about Cheetah. Seems Cheetah would get quite 'excited' on the set and would ruin any shots in which he was shown standing frontally. The solution was a guy with a beebee gun who'd take a shot at the offen...

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Blanche Sweet?

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The story about spending $25,000 for rights to Seven Chances sounds a little suspect to me. Seems like a lot of money for the time. Is this story corroborated by any contemporary articles? My guess would be that Keaton inflated the amount in later years due to inflation, maybe the real amount would ...

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Interesting that the postcard doesn't give the actual name of the show, which would be fascinating to listen to. Since he mentions it's an MGM show, it might very well be "Leo is on the Air". Anyone have a radio log for Nov. 4, 1937? You can find radio logs, of extant shows, here: http://radiogoldi...

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I asked this same question on alt.movies.silent in 2000. The answer then was: Rebecca Clarke who was filmed for a Kinora reel about 1900 at the age of 108. So that would put her birth in the early 1790's. The footage still survives. Here's the thread: https://groups.google.com/group/alt.movies.silen...

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That list of names he worked with is pretty impressive. At first I thought it was probably puffery but the fact that he lists Lloyd and Keaton but not Chaplin makes me think the list may be true. Any guesses on where he may have been with Keaton? Maybe one of the Blinking Buzzards in The High Sign?

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Great film! I have a question: The image moving up and down vertically, was that something that happened with the earliest cameras? If so, when was that problem resolved? Whenever I see an old film with that problem I've always assumed that the original would have been ok and the issue of the jitter...

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Was this converted from PAL? The interlacing artifacts I see when freeze framing completely ruined any enjoyment I might have had with this!

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I've a dim memory of an add in the Blackhawk Bulletin in the 1970s for Chaplin First National films. It was something along the lines of you had to promise to destroy your print after 25 years and send in an affidavit saying it had been done. What was the reasoning behind that? Surely they must have...

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A more recent one:

Ober (2006) by Alex Van Warmerdam. In this one Warmerdam plays a waiter who eventually realizes he's in a movie with a lousy screenplay. So he keeps breaking in to the scriptwriter's home and demanding improvements to the storyline.

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I understand the theory behind the complaint (if a blu-ray makes the image out of X amount of bandwidth, it should use all of that for the image, not waste some of it on black bars). But I think it's completely wrong-- if the most your monitor can show is 1080p, what good would pumping more data in...

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I bought a Washington Phillips CD about two years ago but didn't get around to listening to it till this week. Amazing. He self accompanies on a.... well that is part of the mystery. No one is 100% sure what he is playing. It's some sort of pair of modified zithers or something along those lines. He...

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Just polished off Disc 1 earlier tonight. Do you recall if they still have that gray marking as I indicated in my previous post in One Week ? Thanks :) Unfortunately, the version on the Blu-ray is the same as the "Kino DVD" screen capture you provided. I had no idea this was a real song, I always f...

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My copy arrived tonight. The detail you can see now is amazing. Mr. Bengtson can likely get a whole new book out of the detail he can see now (I hope!). I checked for my pet peeve of missing bits and the missing bit is now restored: In Day Dreams when Buster leaps on to the outgoing boat there is no...

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Wow, a lot of you guys are getting this set early. Amazon.ca literally just charged me for it, and I anticipate it'll ship by the end of today, arriving on my doorstep no later than tomorrow afternoon. Quite excited! I got my notification yesterday from Amazon.ca also! Can't wait. I came home last ...

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For me the ability to get a sharp giant picture is worth it. Big is how these things were meant to be seen. Everytime I see a good print of a silent in a theatre, I start seeing all sorts of details I can't see on a small TV. It might be a film I own on DVD and have seen countless times but up on th...

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Jim Roots wrote:
Changsham wrote:I tend to agree with most posters. Looked better when she was young. But who doesn't.
Donald Sutherland.

Jim

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