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by Richard M Roberts
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:05 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
Replies: 7
Views: 371

Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder

Or George Carlin:

"Look how stupid the average man is, and realize half of them are stupider than that!"

My favorite Fred Allen line (referring to radio and television)was:

"They call it a medium because nothing is well done in it."


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by Richard M Roberts
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
Replies: 7
Views: 371

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.

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by Richard M Roberts
Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:17 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
Replies: 7
Views: 371

Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder

Yep, bad AI is rampant.

I'm waiting to see the Charlie Chaplin bio that has a picture of Billy West on the cover.

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by Richard M Roberts
Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: THE SLEEPING PORCH (1929) Raymond Griffith
Replies: 0
Views: 169

THE SLEEPING PORCH (1929) Raymond Griffith

Here's one of Raymond Griffith's two talkie comedies he made for Al Christie in 1929. Ray's damaged vocal chords in obvious evidence here as he plays a man with a cold. The 16mm prints that got out (of which this one has a poor transfer with Ralph Celentanos initials plastered annoyingly over the up...
by Richard M Roberts
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:30 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: THE BALIFFS (1932) Flanagan and Allen
Replies: 0
Views: 176

THE BALIFFS (1932) Flanagan and Allen

Fred Karno wrote the script for this short, which was Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen's film debut. Watch for Fred walking in front of them in the opening scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0kcv22EkrU

"Meredith, we're in!"

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by Richard M Roberts
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:23 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
Replies: 4
Views: 589

Re: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!

Yeah, this is bullshit. Snub was the Secretary of the Screen Extras Guild through much of the 1950's, after being active in it for more than a decade before that, one of the reasons why he was one of the busiest bit players around. And I don't know what "wife" they are referring to, he was...
by Richard M Roberts
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:30 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: IDLE ROOMERS (1931) Molino Brothers
Replies: 0
Views: 303

IDLE ROOMERS (1931) Molino Brothers

Another Educational Cameo Comedy missing a minute or so from it's LOC print (I've got a complete one we showed at Slapsticon in 2013). Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and released November 29, 1931, it features the Molino Brothers (Frank and Alfred), Fern Emmett (oddly billed as the star in the redone A...
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: THE SOCK EXCHANGE(1928) Bobby Vernon, Nancy Dover
Replies: 0
Views: 244

THE SOCK EXCHANGE(1928) Bobby Vernon, Nancy Dover

Good Al Christie-Paramount comedy released September 22, 1928, directed by Harold Beaudine and featuring Bobby Vernon, nancy Dover in her first film, Joseph Belmont, Eddie Baker, Bill Blaisdell and Eddie Barry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmf-X6zOAsk


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by Richard M Roberts
Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:16 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Nitrateville Comment: THE PILL POUNDER
Replies: 1
Views: 358

Nitrateville Comment: THE PILL POUNDER

So everyone over at Nitwitvile are oohing and awing in disbelief that one of the C. C. Burr-Charlie Murray All Star Comedies turned up at the Modern Sound Pictures Parking Lot sale: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35671 Well, no surprise there, Keith Smith bought a number of tho...
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:08 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: SO THIS IS HOLLYWOOD: A FRIEND IN NEED (1955) Victor Moore, MItzi Green
Replies: 0
Views: 397

SO THIS IS HOLLYWOOD: A FRIEND IN NEED (1955) Victor Moore, MItzi Green

Here's an episode on an interesting TV sitcom from 1955 that was another one of Richard L. Bare's early forays into television, with a script by Edward Beloin, George O'Hanlon and Dean Riesner, and an interesting supporting cast including stars Virginia Gibson, MItzi Green as an adult (much more int...