Czech is a Serbo-Coat type known as West Slav language and not like Hungarian(Magyar) which is like no other European language but some of the best filmmakers from the pioneer days had a Magyar speaking background. The Czech language was known as Bohemian until about the 1800s and is similar to the ...

I am happy to say that in the past couple of hours Amazon has buzzed me that they have shipped "Bill" & the "Lost" Shorts in the one package from my pre-orders. Within 12 days or less I will be able to enjoy these and grateful they have done them. Look forward to the others when they come out. One t...

Whilst WW Young was listed as director of the 1915 Alice in Wonderland, he does not appear to be the well-known Waldemar Young who died in 1938. None of Waldemar's titles in the 1920s match those titles mentioned. Most of Waldemar Young's listed scripts in the 1930s are available to buy on DVD & I h...

The Speed of Sound is a good book-a good read. I got it recently and read it right through.

I can agree with Richard's remarks about Metrocolor turning out good quality prints. I bought a legitimate 16mm print of Alan Freed's Rock, Rock, Rock. This had proper text Metrocolor on the leaders and was a perfect print. Black & white yes but it gave me a good idea of their work. I guess they had...

Any one ordered & received this set yet? I forgot about for a month or so but started ready a book on the shorts published by Past Times(I know the author via another blog from England) I got and I remembered that I had seen nothing in this site for a few weeks. It is still listed as $120 plus shipp...

Interesting to see this subject come up again after moreorless 2 years. I mentioned subject in a post recently. I did not know Nitrateville two years ago. I am a collector of European films and earlier the records(a fire lost all this large LP collection). I just this week took delivery of another l...

This film was one of the first MGM package collection shown on CH7 Melbourne when they got the c700 film package rights minus GWTW(at the time). They showed this, I think, in their Friday night Academy Theatre slot at the time in black & white as we had to wait until about 1973 for color. Some peopl...

Until end of business on June 30 2010 DeepDiscount have a up to 55% off sale of WB Archive Collection. This means a $40 set is $18 and a $30 disc is $13.98. However they are basing the single DVD price on $30rrp not their usual $19.39 price so those prices are just below their $14.54 25MORE sale jus...

They sold out in Australia a while ago to another franchise business who also owns a number of stores besides those owned by franchisees. They were in trouble themselves not long before that at the franchise operator's end not their franchisees. What happened to the Viacom/Paramount connection? Are ...

Deep Discount are having technical troubles with their Order History Archives etc which they are saying they are trying to fix. I have had two during their sale 25MORE. The first had me down for 2 x Lace instead of one of Lace & one of Lace11 which they deleted one copy in time but could not replace...

It seems that IMDB, who has a lengthy article about Eva van Berne, does list this lady as having died in 1930 from excessive dieting. They also list her being born in Sarajevo which is listed as being in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1910. Eva is a name that is common in Hungary but who is this person t...

Penfold: You are right re longevity of British Cinematographers, but, sadly, this is not altogether true of many excellent British comedians & comic actors, some who have died on stage or in their dressing rooms and at least one suicide thrown in(Tony Hancock in Australia).

Of course it makes sense to look for a Region Free Blu Ray at this point in time. It might be one that you key in a code for the Blu Ray each time you want to view in a different region for a disc but the DVD part is usually region Free and best left unaltered. Surprised that now there is such talk(...

In my case I have to order from elsewhere because I have to pay shipping and unless I am buying a heap then I have to add $10 to the price. I have ordered from DD whose price is 50c more but post would work out a little under $2 on the current order per title I have ordered with them including Miss ...

Today Classicflix has a good rundown of the new Warner Archive Collection with thumbnails of the covers. Eventually I hope to see a couple I am after and seen before: Three on a Horse(1936, usual WB stock players) & Big Hearted Herbert(1934) both with Guy Kibbee who, of course, was in Convention Cit...

Try this: Thames did not go un der. They lost their right to broadcast TV in the London area in contract/licence renewals, something peculiar to UK. Thames made lots of stuff out of the old Warner Bros Teddington studios(bombed near the end of the war by a V2 rocket from Germany). The operated and c...

There were a few moviehouses in Australia that had a roof that was rolled back mechanically on a hot night but we probably were late in getting houses with installed airconditioning like we would see on New York marques in movies or stills. Heating was sometimes in footrests via hot water pumped thr...

Bob Hope set is released and mine is in the mail, so to speak. The Deanna Durbin(actually box 2) has been delayed for a few weeks due to production capacity reasons whatever they mean by that!!! There has been a lot of new, that is replicated items, delayed this year by weeks or months in what we ta...

Sounds interesting... can't be too silent if Mr Marsalis pumps out jazz even if live!!!! Hope they can marry this score to the film later for a DVD.

Foreign films in US archives. Whatever happened to the Ufa and possibly other German film companies' negatives or were they lavenders that were reputed to have been in vaults in USA during the 1930s for use in US screenings??? Haven't heard mention of this for years. There was such a thing as the Ph...

Those TCM Universal titles seemed to have slowed to a dead halt and the same seems to apply to the Universal/Paramount from Amazon too.
Oh, well, I just got a lot of Warner Archive ordered from DD for $14.54 each while the going is good. Pity the newer titles have not got to DD yet.

I have the Fort Lee DVD in my collection somewhere & if my memory serves me right it notes that the original documentary was abridged from the original length which is a fact I never like to read.

I too had corrections some years ago for some German material on IMDB and never did see the change. I think they were wartime titles and I have volumes from c1929 to 1945(minus 1932) of a German-language work covering all films produced or released in Germany & Austria in that period. The informatio...

Nice to see those Warner doubles(some could be triple & quads in that archive as we all know full well with Warners policy of recycling scripts) but they did not do this with Small Town Girl which not warners of course, originally). DeepDiscount has a good deal on Warner Archive this week for titles...

Re DeepDiscount. Yes, DeepDiscount does offer to house and ship merchandise for others as their business profile states. I was a customer in waiting before they actually opened for business and had a falling out thru no fault of mine & I still have issues about how they ship to overseas addresses(NO...

Fancing ready emails back to 1999 but interesting none-the-less. I used to watch the Columbia shorts in my country in the early TV days. We had the Three Stooges as standalone usually in a 30mins slot with ads and this one of the 17mins shorts was cut to fit the bill. I have noted this before and sa...

A number of reels of rare US & other nitrates were, in recent years, shipped back to their countries by the Australian NF&SA in Canberra. The rules, due to money problems is to only actively save Australian & Pacific rim material & send 'experts' to the Pacific rim to teach those places how to look ...

How right you are! Fatty is Pufi in Magyar. Zsiros in Magyar is also Fatty. In German we have Dick und Doof which makes Ollie the first named actor in the time there not Stanley.

The description of two films Pufi was in(German films) was quite funny. Adds a little momentary humor to the blogs.

Isn't DVD Planet now owned by Deep Discount. This was owned by Image Entertainment and run, I think, from Las Vegas area. I got a real good price on a box set a few years ago from DVD Planet and the details of address and invoice layout was DeepDiscount-style.