Those very early clips look good. Can these be saved to computer to put onto disc? I tried and couldn't do it.

The story, in a fashion, in Australia was told in the film, The Picture Show Man with Rod Taylor, John Meillon & John Ewart. The war was on with two opposing service running around with covered wagons & horses. There was another interesting experiment. A film team would descend on a town and entice ...

I have some early Ozu received this week from BFI dual DVD/Blu Ray discs with booklet. They were Late Spring(1949) coupled with The Only Son(1936, Ozu's first talkie)/Early Summer(1951 coupled with What Did the lady forget(1937)/Tokyo Story(1953) coupled with Brothers & Sisters of the Toda Family(19...

It loaded with titles from 1912-23 few as they are. There some title links to open as well in the list.

Gagman, the fur under the lip probably happened at the 1919 United Artists Christmas Party. Some weird game they were playing to fill the night in, perhaps?????

Taming of the Shrew. Whilst I cannot access it currently I do have the Laserdisc version of this film that also contains a Pickford documentary. There is a note of some guy who re-edited the film and I wondered why at the time. Re vault fires. There have been reports in film books over the years of ...

moviepas is from Melbourne & has been for over 61 years. A retired retailer and wholesaler of books, records, films etc etc. Also done lots of transfers of old tapes to different formats and repaired some damaged DVDs for people who can't replace them anymore(not always possible though). Collect lot...

We have the problem here with the many English dialects & pronunciations along with the way some foreign speakers pronounce them whether they speak English or not. I seemed to have gone thru this before on a blog. Was it this Nitrateville forum:?? Ann Dvorak as she says it seems to me to be the US w...

Seems rather vague to me. Big companies charge big bucks for a few minutes for use in a documentary & I assume there are time limits on that use as well. Sometimes the answer is No for permission at any price. Of course people assume trailers are not covered so trailers have often been used in place...

I used to sell the Blackhawk 8/Super8mm of Sweedie Learns to Swim. The print was watchable but one little niece at the time(early 1970s) thought it was raining a lot throughout the film!!!

For the Term of His Natural Life(Norman Dawn). The producers thought they had actually employed Allan Dwan which I find remarkable if they made that kind of error. It has always been said that the nitrate used was old newsreels which are of infinite value today but who knows what really was used. Wh...

I ordered mine a fews along with another set of shorts being released at the same time. There is so much in that archive that will probably never be fully available in my lifetime. They also do not neglect films made in other countries. They are well into Blu Ray with many unusual releases that may ...

I also liked the Swanson on Swanson(a big book, I think) and often recommended this as a good read. I read a Valentino in early 1971 when I was worked for short time in London for Decca Records which I got from the local library a few doors from work. Another big book but I enjoyed it. An early Bing...

I used to work for a music publisher in Australia(Allans Music) who went back to the 1850s so were older than Bourne etc. I was there in 1968-69 and left about Oct 1970 for UK& Europe. They had rights to Irving Berlin Music, Inc & his connected Bourne Inc. I had to count all the sheet music in the w...

Showboat should have been out for the stage show anniversary & George Feltenstein even said this in interviews with talkback hosts or whoever. On the Laserdisc set they had only the prologue audio and not the visuals which apparently exist in its entirety but I only had the Tess Gardella(Aunt Jemima...

Mention of Thunderbird, I assume means Thunderbird Films of LA(Eagle Rock, Verdugo Road & other parts West) run by the late Tom Dunnahoo who I imported lots for my customers. Then if that is the case I would say Ray Pointer of Inkwell Images(now back in Michigan, my early 1970s home), who did a lot ...

I have seen a few Educational besides the Shirley Temple ones. One I remember seeing in the mid 1970s was about a Queen's Birthday(1936) that I thought quite good. A title called She's My Lily(listed as She's My Lily, I'm Her Willie)(1934) had the comedian-singer Will Mahoney as himself. I had or ha...

The cost of the shipping from Amazon these days to me from USA & UK is low and with UK the reduction of the VAT more than covers the shipping and if I get more titles at the time the service fee(about UK2.09 currently) is divided between those titles in the exercise and we get a great exchange rate ...

Point taken on all those other titles. Perhaps we can enter these titles in the Kentucky Derby??? There is that recent Nosferatu that has been played around with that would be in that count. We had the same problem with older music on LP when I was in the business. The same old tracks, different cov...

The Street Angel information was in a book by the AFI published somewhere in the 1970s. These books can be depressing but sometimes good can come when someone comes up with a 'lost' title. The mob in France is Carlotta which is also the name of a well-known Australian female impersonator one time at...

It is a good thing, perhaps, to see Blu Ray of early titles and it seems Fox depression titles are the most on that medium from that period to date. But how about all the others from Fox frm 1928-1935 that have never come on DVD but exist??? Nonetheless I would be keen to add the Blu Rays to my Blu ...

John Soister you will be pleased to relate to your "Fussy Budgets" family that the price is almost give away now less the VAT on top of that(17.5% extra off). I got mine when it got to about half of that today. It would have be even cheaper to buy today because the Australian dollar is oodles better...

Was not the studio on both sides of the street with a tunnel joining them under the road???Vitaphone made a lot of shorts here, very handy to getting Broadway & NYC radio performers on film in some form or other. We had a piano factory which also made sewing machines & piano rolls called Wertheim wh...

There was no way Farrar could make an ALBUM at that time. They didn't have them as such at that time, although operas & symphonies did come out as 12inch 78s in an album type cover but they were cumbersone and being 12inch were much easier to be broken than standard 8 or 10inch records. I believe Mr...

Don't forget Talkies have been with us since the start of film. Producers were always trying to get a decent format and finally did like Beta vs VHS we had to have two, Laserdisc types we had two, High Quality discs had HD & Blu Ray and there was only one winner in each case and not always the best....

If you have a PayPal account you can send money to anyone clicking that tab. But why not e-mail them and ask.

Another Blockbuster story. I have mentioned that a couple Blockbuster stores had been trashed by gangs and that the Australian arm is now owned by a local franchise operator. Today I had to go to a bayside major suburb 30mins from my home to see a young niece who is in rehab from a stroke several we...

And Ernst Rolf suicided in the early 30s and was the star of the Swedish version of Paramount on Parade. His wife stayed in Hollywood and remarried a cameraman, I think.

I live here and knew little about Dr Barnados in Australia until I just now opened a link on their site. It seems to involve New South Wales & the capital Canberra. Nothing in my state is mentioned. However, just five mins walk from my home of 53 years is the Gordon Boys Home which is now run as hou...

It was that body on the floor that was the main reason the film was banned on Australian screens at the time of original release. I don't believe it was shown in the Paramount/MCA package either when those films first came to TV. Took me years to finally see this one. In fact a copy is at my elbow o...