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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: A HOLLYWOOD THEME SONG (1930) Harry Gribbon
- Replies: 1
- Views: 199
Re: A HOLLYWOOD THEME SONG (1930) Harry Gribbon
This was really enjoyable. Harry Gribbon is usually fun to watch. The singing ducks was a good gag, and it was nice to see Barney Hellum as one of the off-screen musicians. The Jolson reference reminded me of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of someone (possibly Vernon Dent) whistling or humming a son...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
- Topic: Ned Comstock RIP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2715
Re: Ned Comstock RIP
Wouldn't it be nice if he's now meeting Hal Roach, et al, and they're thanking him for taking such good care of their records?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9598
Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
I have no need for artificial intelligence, what I keep hoping for is Genuine Intelligence in Humanity, but I keep getting disappointed. These days, people's cell phones are smarter than they are. RICHARD M ROBERTS To paraphrase Fred Allen, "the average (fill in the blank) is well below averag...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9598
Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
Here's my two cents: #1 looks like a guy who came in dead last in a French Chaplin lookalike contest (seriously, top hat and bow tie?), #2 is not of this world (therefore a perfect rep for AI - any bets on whether he has six fingers?), and #3 looks like LIMELIGHT-era Chaplin entering a Robert Downey...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6250
Re: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
Points well taken, Richard. At some stage in my collecting life, I realized there's a saturation level where you just say, that's it. I just turned 65, and my feeling is, I'll concentrate on purchasing stuff I don't already own. I bought the Milestone POTO after holding out for many years; I didn't ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE (1992) Max Morath
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4171
Re: LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE (1992) Max Morath
You know you've made it when you get a Hirschfeld caricature! Good show, Richard.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6250
Re: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
The only saving grace is, if you run it at sound speed, it should only be around 5:25. Still not, to coin an old phrase, the most effective use of my time. I could watch a good triple feature (to say the least) during that time. But, to each his own. Not to get off on a tangent, but someone's runnin...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: More Ragtime!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4017
Re: More Ragtime!
I have an old ragtime album by Dick Wellstood, playing Scott Joplin. In the liner notes for THE RAGTIME DANCE, he tells an anecdote about his being the copyist for THE RAGTIME YEARS. He apologized to the pianist who had to work from his illegible score (which was unreadable due to time constraints).
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4983
Re: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
Richard, that's one of the most concise, and certainly one of the funniest reviews I've ever read. It ranks right up there with the critic who described a 121-minute WWII epic as two hours too long.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12614
Re: Her Friend The Bandit
There was a French book on Chaplin that contained a frame grab of Mabel Normand at a telephone operator's console with Chaplin in mufti contorting himself. I believe Harry Booker was reacting in the shot (I'm doing this from memory). Has any identified the film this is from? _________ For what this...