The gentleman responsible for these YouTube posts is Roger Robles, who is a well known 78 RPM collector and audio restoration geek. There are quite a few CDs available with audio work done by Roger...notably 2 CDs of early to mid 1930s Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, and a brilliant 2 CD set, "Gus A...

You know, for years I used some of the same defense on Rohauer, but the reality is that Buster Keaton's silent work would have been rediscovered with or without Rohauer, and if someone like Paul Killiam had done it instead, perhaps Keaton would have gotten a better financial shake from those reissu...

It's not even a trickle. With what we've been hearing about how the classic DVDs lose money or if they're lucky, break even, I can't see any way that WB would go back to the way it was. The Archive has been extremely successful, with very litte overhead. I'm thinking that we'd better get comfortabl...

That's correct. There's no chance of "ripping" the DVD if it won't mount on my computer... and it won't (for the record, I have an iMac, and the discs will neither mount on my internal DVD drive or my external Sony). As for the reliability of DVD-Rs, you might want to browse through this discussion...

This is really the only way it is cost efficient for Warners to release these titles. The regular pressed classic DVD from Warner's is close to dead. It's the Archive or nothing. I just got my 50th WA DVD, and have not had one fail. They are all played on my Sony Blu-ray player. I don't think the p...

Shaynes3 wrote:
Have any of you personally experienced burned disc failure AFTER successfully viewing them?

Steve, my experience with DVD-Rs mirrors yours. I have thousands of burned discs going back to early 2002, and I have not had any problems with any of them not reading once successfully burned.

"Little Lord Fauntleroy" will always occupy a special place in the hearts and minds of anyone who attended Cinecon 12, hosted by Herb Graff in NYC in 1976.

I know Michael S. and a few others on here were there...

About 29 minutes in, there's a little mistake fascinating only for film geeks. Pasted to a sidewalk kiosk in the set (OK, it's a pissoir) is an original poster for the first exhibition of the Lumiere Cinematographe. But that didn't occur until December, 1895; Clair's film is set in July of that yea...

rogerskarsten wrote:I checked out the Festival's home page, but it still says the programs will be announced in May. How were you able to get a sneak peak?

A mailer was just sent out. The only titles they announced were The Iron Horse, the new version of Metropolis and the Italian silent.

Laser was the closest we've ever come to having a film buff's category of retail; sure, every laser store sold lots of new releases back when widescreen was a novelty, but the guy at the laserdisc store was bound to have at least passing awareness of the kind of things Criterion was up to, and to a...

DeepDiscount is owned by Infinity and they warehouse and ship from their address for other companies which is not uncommon now. In fact the record companies here envisaged such a warehouse and EMI & Sony, I think, did give it a go but they were ordered and invoiced separately but shipped from the s...

Does anyone recall seeing either of these rather obscure MGM talkies on TCM or elsewhere? No particular research interest or anything like that; just pure curiosity. -Harold TCM has definitely run WISE GIRLS in recent years. Are you sure TCM has run "Wise Girls" - and not "Three Wise Girls"? The la...

Mike Gebert wrote:

The largest LD store in the world: Dave's Laser Place in LA?

Ken Crane's, I assume.

Yes, and Ken Crane's became DVD Planet, which is now owned by the same company that owns Deep Discount DVD, so in a way you are doing business with the same company when you buy from DDD.

azjazzman, Well, you'd be surprised, most people have never even seen a laser-disc player let alone owned one. As far as I know, they weren't even sold anywhere near where I live, except maybe briefly when they were first introduced. I remember complaints about defective discs in the early stages. ...

Harold Aherne wrote:Does anyone recall seeing either of these rather obscure MGM talkies on TCM or elsewhere? No particular research interest or anything like that; just pure curiosity.

-Harold

TCM has definitely run WISE GIRLS in recent years.

I have to chuckle to myself when I hear people whining about the high cost of copies of "Hollywood". How well I remember when Ken Crane's had an end cap display dedicated to remaindered LaserDisc box sets of "Hollywood". They started at 25% off, then 50% off, then 75% off, and yet still they sat the...

She died just half a year ago, September 16th, 2009, aged 96. I always find it stunning when people get so old. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177739/bio Prepare to be stunned with greater regularity. 90 is the new 80 (or is it 75?) Actually, experts are predicting that this generation of children wil...

Norma Shearer as model for Norma Desmond? Other than first names, what do they have in common? That's absurd! It is, but I've seen her named as the model for Norma Desmond. Norma Talmadge doesn't seem to have had any more in common with the character either, other than the first name. I wonder who ...

It's a good review, and I'm very pleased to see the shout outs to both The Mighty Joe Yranski and our very own Greta de Groat. (Big slam dunk for the DoNs.) Not to mention the idea that Norma Talmadge's reputation is finally being burnished a little, long time coming. But I'm feeling contrarian thi...

I'd say that Three's a Crowd is a near-masterwork. It's certainly not a very happy or optimistic one, but I wasn't expecting it to be--and it's a fundamental mistake to expect an outright comedy like Langdon's earlier and later efforts. Rather, it's a study of a very lonely and alienated soul whose...

I wonder if they felt they needed a little uplift because "kids" (OK, teenagers) were the focus of the story. It's all well and good to leave poor Richard Barthelmess out on the road hustling from nowhere to nowhere (HEROES FOR SALE) or send audiences home with a musical punch in the face (GOLD DIG...

AZ, I don't think we're disagreeing. (Read the longer thing I wrote a year or so ago and we definitely aren't.) It's an elaborate, coherent, fully realized fantasy from a unique comedian. It's so much so, in fact, that it's a bit airless, and certainly light on the laughs. But there's no question t...

I agree with what Bob said--I also find THE CHASER moves pretty well and has a lot of laughs. THREE'S A CROWD suffers from a weak supporting cast (Langdon's character, due to its surreal nature, always worked best when he had other strong performers to play against who formed a contrast) but also L...

I saw the announcement on blu-ray.com about the Kinowelt Chaplin Blu-rays due sometime in April/May. They include: The Kid; The Gold Rush; City Lights; Modern Times and The Great Dictator . I can't find any information on the Kinowelt site itself about these releases. Here's the info from the Park ...

For me the only reason to see the MK2 editions of the films is to see how Chaplin re-edited the films for reissue. In all cases, I don't understand why he thought he had to remove what he did. Of course the MK2 editions do include all of these edits as supplements, but as with many of you, I think ...

Am I the only one who seems to be quite satisfied with those old mk2/Warner releases? No, you're not. You guys really are satisfied with cut, cropped, ghosted, digitally overscrubbed, badly converted, badly packaged versions of Chaplin's films? Have you seen the Image DVDs? I own the Image DVDs as ...

Murnau wrote:Am I the only one who seems to be quite satisfied with those old mk2/Warner releases?

No, you're not.

Jim Reid wrote: Not that I doubt you, but on Amazon it says Region 2.

The region designations on Blu-Ray are A, B and C. There is no "Region 2".

I noticed that "Max Davidson Comedies" (Leo McCarey, 1927-28) is listed among upcoming releases from Edition Filmmuseum: http://tinyurl.com/y8v8k6f I've never seen any of these yet. Others' comments are always glowing, so I'll make a point of picking them up. The package says it includes all the su...

We could get hepper to Milton Sills. Oh yeah, that reminded me, "Valley Of The Giants" would definitely be on my list. Like you say, the Cinephiles would be down with it as it has played several of the cons to much acclaim, but I don't recall it being part of anybody's silent "canon" outside of that.