Yay, Our Blushing Brides ! I can't understand why they don't make a nice boxed set or package of the three Our Something Something films. From memory, the Warner Archive print of Our Dancing Daughters was a tad soft. Restoration? Well, we can dream ... AFAIK, all prints of OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS are...

I got my Warner Archive DVD today. Appears to be actual DVD. Great transfer, even the first reel. I have a disc of the original 1936 Radio Prevue. It includes "Why Do I Love You". Here it is: http://chelsearialtostudios.com/showboat_radio_prevue.mp3" target="_blank" target="_blank As thrilled as I ...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/warner-archive-collection/id310063354?mt=2" target="_blank" target="_blank is apparently the link to the full collection. You'll need iTunes installed. The latest podcast is titled "Show Boat" and is about an hour long. There are other apps/programs to get podcas...

Looks to me like a DVD-R?? Where is the evidence that it will be a proper DVD9? George Feltenstein says in the WAC podcast that initial quantities of "Show Boat" (1936) will be pressed DVDs "in anticipation of high demand". He goes on to say that the Triple Feature Show Boat set is still in the wor...

So what did you enjoy best from 2013? Here are some of my choices: BEST TALKIE DVD: One of Borzage's masterpieces, Little Man, What Now is out from Warners, hooray! I *finally* caught up with this one and I have to agree...it is a depression-era gem. One small correction - it is actually a part of ...

This is a neat discussion. Is there any good book on the old "B" westerns that covers all the territory in the 1930's and 1940's? Or maybe a good website devoted to them? And why are films like "The Last Outlaw" not on dvd? It has some great customer reviews on amazon. It's RKO, so I assume that me...

We had a big discussion of what constitutes a B some years ago, and it's clearly something different by the 1950s that generally has more money and often bigger name stars. But I think the Scott-Boetticher westerns, especially the ones after Seven Men From Now, clearly have a certain B ethos behind...

Here ya go... it's about 1/4 of the way down the page, under Hungary/listed as follows: Marie, a hungarian legend/Spring shower + Marie, légende hongroise (Pál Fejös 1933) (Annabella) vf sta 1H05 + vhg stit 5085 8/8 + http://www.ioffer.com/i/dvd-rare-movies-hungary-poland-czech-russia-yugoslavia-494...

Mike Gebert wrote: but also because I came to love the surprises, that I would never have heard of, more. (And my wanna-sees got so obscure... Berthold Viertel's Little Friend? Fat chance).

http://www.ioffer.com/i/little-friend-d ... 4-98967391

That rant out of the way, "King of Jazz" was added to the National Film Registry in 2013. According to the Library of Congress website, films selected for the National Film Registry will be "preserved as cinematic treasures for generations to come." So there you have it. It will be preserved and be...

Technically speaking, "Seven Men From Now" would not be a "B" Western, but what Hollywood wags of the time would have called "a nervous A." But it, and the other Randolph Scott-Harry Joe Brown Westerns certainly fulfilled the bottom-half-of-the-double-bill position one often assumes was the status ...

I don't think "Seven Men From Now" would be considered a "B Western." Seven Men From Now" was produced by the "B picture" arm of John Wayne's Batjac Production Company. On the DVD, Martin Scorsese discusses the film's "B Western" status and mentions that it was the bottom of a double-bill when he s...

One might find the "crowd experience" enjoyable if you are the type of person who cannot exist without the company of others - and there are quite a few of these critters around. On the other hand you have people like myself who are quite capable of having a one person party in a darkened room. It ...

Harlett O'Dowd wrote:
You *do* know that SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is fiction.

SITR is fiction, but Comden and Green spent a lot of time talking to studio execs and technicians who were around during the transition to sound, and they incorporated some of the stories they heard into the film.

WINGS Blu-Ray at Amazon for $8.96. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ ... s%20bluray

Jim Reid wrote:I have the DVD, I'm searching for a 16mm print of the cartoon. Apples and oranges.

You might drop Jerry Beck a quick email. He always seems to be plugged in to things like this.

Or totally tooned in, I should say.

And every comedian from Max Linder to Adam Sandler instinctively understands that laughter is contagious. Well, but what, if not the power of suggestion, response to the psychology of the crowd, makes it contagious? You've described it, but not explained it. It doesn't require explanation. It is wh...

A sequence that may seem mildly amusing during a solitary screening will conflate into wild laughter when seen with an audience. To call that succumbing is to miss out on one of the key aspects of the movie watching experience. Missing out on one of the key aspects of the movie watching experience ...

Hate to sound like an old fogey, but social interaction is the LAST thing I want with the majority of the audiences I see in movie theaters today. I know you really meant the communal experience, but still... AMEN! Nor do I require a "communal experience" to sharpen or enhance my appreciation, if t...

I saw Monument Men on Sunday with a very well behaved crowd. I went in the afternoon and paid $5.50. You can talk about how great the home theater experience has gotten and I agree, but you lose the social interaction with an audience. That's not a small loss. Sometimes it's absolutely necessary fo...

That running time must have been taken from a Video Yesteryear "Accu-Speed" videotape. The AFI catalog lists "The General" at 7500 feet, and there is documentation that the film was intended to be run at slightly faster than 24 fps, so you do the math. (24 fps = 90 feet per minute).

My curiosity is therefore piqued as to why the UCLA went to the trouble of restoring the film and does not seek to compensate the costs associated with that exercise by at least selling made to order DVD copies to people like me who would be interested in buying one. To my mind the act of restoring...

A bit difficult for those of us who live in Australia though isn't it! Your beef isn't really with UCLA, it is with the people who program the National Film & Sound Archive's Arc Cinema or other venues in Australia that would be likely to show a film such as "The Vagabond King". Feel free to contac...

I actually looked at this page yesterday, it's the best one on Rex i've seen, but only goes so far as to say: "The horse was later retired on Doyle's ranch which was located in or near Flagstaff, Arizona. " Seems like for such a famous horse there would be some notice when he died--i did google aro...

" The Vagabond King " was screened twice at UCLA's Festival of Preservation (1991 & 2000) with at least two other "non-Festival" screenings at Melnitz Hall. UCLA most recently ran it in August 2013 at the Billy Wilder. It has been screened at Film Forum (twice), The Museum of Modern Art and Eastman ...

I'd love to see it as I adore Norma Shearer. I am a huge fan. That places you in a tiny, elite fraternity of discriminating connoisseurs; let's see, there's you, me, and... ...and me. I think there was a "Norma Shearer pro or con" thread on alt.movies.silent many years ago and there were quite a fe...

I was going to give special note to a DVD, Kevin Brownlow's " Cinema Europe ," but the price at Amazon is out of this world. Too bad. It's superb. That would have been my suggestion. TCM ran it in about 2001 or so ( when i had only VHS - I recorded it, but can't find the tapes). They haven't run it...

Chris, I have been reading your posts for awhile now, and something has been puzzling me. I can't really tell if you are pro or anti-Blu Ray. Could you clarify? :-D There are pro and anti blu ray factions?? I didn't know there was a debate. What is the bone(s) of contention? I was just teasing Chri...

There already was an "official" shorter cut of BEN-HUR when they added a synchronized music & effects track for the 1930 reissue. This survives and plays quite well as it is. I ran it in college on a nice 16mm print from Films Incorporated. Most of it looks adequate at 24fps except for the chariot ...

My avatar and I want to know about "The Light in the Dark," which was believed lost until found around 15 years ago. A restored version of six reels was shown at Cinefest in Syracuse, NY in March 2003. The GEH has a copy of it. What are the chances of it coming to DVD? Image Entertainment, (2000) h...