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There was a video on youtube that had a police officer being interviewed by Connie Chung. He was on the scene at the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor and he claims they did find Mary Miles Minter's monogram panties in Taylor's apartment , he also believed it was Mary's mother who killed Taylor...

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Harpo Marx playing:

- clarinet in The Cocoanuts
- piano in The Big Store

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Greenbriar Picture Shows had a post about one CBS late night showing of A Night in Casablanca, and people came out of the woodwork just to say, hey, I was there too, I watched it that night. (Guess what I was doing that night, of course. I'm sure many of you were too.) Will there be touchstone mome...

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Thought this article, In Praise of Not Knowing might strike a chord with people on this group who grew up in the 1960s/70s. It reminded me of endlessly pouring over The Silent Clowns as a kid and sometimes having to wait decades to see a film described in it. Now most of the stuff is sitting in DVDs...

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Let's not forget Groucho Marx doing deodorant commercials, on second thought let's forget them.

They're on this Chuck McCann commercial reel:

http://www.chuckmccann.net/commercials.htm

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The discussion about lousy biopics led me to wonder:

What is the earliest movie star biopic?

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Just found this today so don't know much about the National Jukebox Here's the blurb on the website: The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collectio...

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought if an early sound film appeared cropped on the left hand side it was because the film was originally sound on disk and when the soundtrack was later added to the film then the soundtrack would claim some of the image. But what would explain cropping happening to...

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I must admit, I scanned through SUNNY SIDE UP last night and couldn't find any definite examples of what you mean—can you point out any? Sorry, I already deleted the movie so I can't point to a specific instance. I thought it was pretty consistent throughout. If no one else sees it then maybe it's ...

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Marjorie White

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WOW!!! I'm listening through some of Mary Backstayge now and the Worst Person in the World has just shown up on an airplane noisily eating his meal. I think my favourite sketch takes place on the set of the film If Pain Persists where Barry Campbell can't get his lines right: "I knew your father, Fe...

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Ok, so if the film is post ortho then what explains the change in eye colour in later films?

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Could be a 16mm print, a book, a piece of memorabilia? Mine would have to be the 1932 bio of Lillian Gish by Albert Bigelow Paine that someone here graciously gave to me. Didn't think I would ever find it. I have some cast member portraits done by the still photographer on The Cocoanuts and I also ...

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Marjorie White looks like she is blind in Sunnyside Up but in other films, say Diplomaniacs for example, her eyes register darker.

Is this an example of orthochromatic vs pancromatic film? Was there a timeframe where it was optional to use either film stock?

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Don't forget Groucho for pretty much any post 1972 appearance, especially when wearing that suit made out of jeans. Watching that stuff is heartbreaking and infuriating. I remember seeing a clip of George Burns in his 90s in which he was described as 'dancing'. It barely passed for walking in my vie...

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It is also a stretch on co-incidence that Groucho comes up wearing the same moniker later on. By 1927-8 Hollywood would have been on the conciousness of Broadway. Talking and musical stars were starting to go west. There would have been concern, scorn and jealousy. I have been looking into the lyri...

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Why is this film called 20 when the run time would be closer to 10 or 15? Is the title referring to something in popular culture at the time?

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The site also has a 59 page listing of Chaplin's film holdings, described as: This file contains: an inventory of the film materials stored at the Pathé Laboratories in Hollywood as of January 1951; an inventory of the film materials as of April 1, 1946, obtained from a list provided by Rolly Tother...

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Marx Brothers Rarities....

Can you expand on that? Please?

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Yes, that's one of the perks of being a developer, you get to name streets. Lots of streets end up getting named after the developer's children.

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If there is a Keaton shorts BluRay in the works might it be worthwhile to start a list of commonly missing bits and co-ordinate with Kino to increase the chances of the missing bits becoming un-missing? First one that comes to mind for me a shot from DayDreams: It's just after Buster has leaped on t...

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I've been wanting to see these films for decades, then I find out that these are not being broadcast on TCM Canada. We get to see Sh! The Octopus instead.

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The comparison of an interlaced video signal and step printing is still incomprehensible to me. This is what I meant by my comparison: Sound film and video have a fixed frame rate that may be too fast for a silent film (which can run at any speed). So in those cases a method needs to be developed t...

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FWIW I do playback via a Sony Playstation 3. When freeze framing I do not get the interlacing.

On a separate note, the PS3 lets you playback at pretty much any speed above 1x if you wish (by means of a joystick to set speed). For speeds below 1x, there are increments of 1/7th.

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Interesting talk on Interlacing. While reading through this I started to think "Is Interlacing on DVD the equivalent of stretch printing on film?" Is that a fair analogy?

However when I think of stretch printing I think of herky-jerky motion and I don't see that on the DVD.... why not?

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I've only gotten as far as Tango Tangles and the primary thing I have noticed is how reserved Chaplin is compared to the others (especially Ford Sterling). Craziest I've seen Chaplin act so far is in Tango Tangles and even then it almost looks like he's making fun of how Sterling emotes. If Chaplin ...

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I'm going through the Chaplin at Keystone set now and saw a swastika in A Film Johnnie. It's on the back of what today is called a clapper. The front of the board says: Picture Number - 148 Scene - 56 Hunt-Myers At least that's what I think it says, the 148 may be 198 and Hunt may be Munt. On the ba...

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I get both TCM Regular and HD. I was flipping between the channels to see if I could detect a difference in image quality. I didn't see any image difference there but there sure was a difference in sound quality. The HD broadcast had an extremely noisy soundtrack, the regular version was much cleare...

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Are these discs Region Coded? I didn't see anything on the site saying one way or the other.

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Wow, I used to think I'd never see a more grating comedy than Everything's Rosie. I now stand fully corrected. I'm in awe that this film was actually released. It almost looks like they just threw in the towel at the end and did the closing scene at the radio broadcast in order to stop spending mone...

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In Praise of Not Knowing

Earliest movie star biopic?

National Jukebox at Library of Congress

Why would a 1931 film now be cropped on left hand side?

Re: What is the prize item in your collection?

Sunnyside Up - Marjorie White's eyes

Twenty Minutes of Love - Isn't it more like ten?

The Chief (1933) - Where is Mickey Rooney?