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Noted Orson Welles scholar Robert L. Carringer has passed away at the age of 81, he wrote two terrific books, one that separated the myth from the production of CITIZEN KANE and one that gave us a real reconstruction of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSON, annotating the full script and giving us many wonderfu...

Here's reel one only of a 1916 Vogue Comedy with Ben Turpin, Rube Miller and Lillian Hamilton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fzve23mTe0

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Not that I know of. It got a few festival screenings when Universal made a new print a few years ago, then disappeared just like most of the other Universal shorts that resurfaced.

And has anybody ever found HOW TO BREAK 90 AT CROUQET?


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Leonard Maltin has written a nice tribute to Schecky:

https://leonardmaltin.com/losing-a-friend/


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Terrible news this morning that longtime Cinephile and Syracuse Cinefest Programmer Rick "Schecky" Scheckman has passed away. He was a fine film collector and historian and had worked for David Letterman through most of Letterman's run on television at NBC and CBS. He was a friend and will...

Can anyone ID the Billy West comedy that runs from 3:17-5:23 on this video? https://youtu.be/yhV5Dh4cBMk Not sure of the title, but from the locations and the other actors involved (or not involved), this is one of the Billy West comedies shot by the Emerald Film Co. in Chicago in 1919-20. RICHARD ...

Apparently film historian, professor and all-around good-guy Russell Merritt passed away suddenly last night. He had taught film up in the Bay Area for many years, wrote good books on Walt Disney and D. W. Griffith, and was one of the movers and shakers at the Pordenone Festival in it's heyday. I us...

Thank You William and Rift for your contributions to this thread, and speaking of armchair-quarterbacking, you reminded me on one more Niwit-cine-whiner-vile non-mot of brilliance I wanted to mention: Bravo to Robert Israel for standing up to several, including another cine-whiner’s, self-serving, v...

https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34128 You know, I find it touching that Nitwitvile, whose denizens dare not speak my name, and hate all talk and manifestations of the mafia, were so concerned when we were offline for several hours a week or so ago. Considering it was a server gl...

All that apparently survives on this 1923 Vitagraph feature is this 9,5mm curdown, but so little of Alice Calhoun's output survives, it's worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8rWN9TwMCc

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