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- Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:54 pm
- Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: identify these photos??
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21399
Re: identify these photos??
#1 sure looks like Blanche Sweet and #2 could be the young Mae Busch... but I wouldn't bet money on either of these guesses!
- Wed May 01, 2019 11:49 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: VERSUS SLEDGHAMMERS (1915) Snakeville comedy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8899
Re: VERSUS SLEDGHAMMERS (1915) Snakeville comedy
Yep, that's David Drazin's music on the soundtrack, so that is indeed uploaded from the DVD. (I wasn't suggesting you'd done it, though.) When the guy steals the transfer and the musical score but changes the opening titles, I guess it's just partial piracy. I dunno.
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:53 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: VERSUS SLEDGHAMMERS (1915) Snakeville comedy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8899
Re: VERSUS SLEDGHAMMERS (1915) Snakeville comedy
Steve Rydzewski discovered someone selling 16mm prints of this and the Sweedie comedy SWEEDIE THE LAUNDRESS on eBay over a decade ago. I bought one and Steve bought the other, which he later sold to me. Years later I sold off my collection, and I guess whoever ended up with this VERSUS SLEDGEHAMMERS...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:38 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: ARTHUR GODFREY TIME (11/6/1958)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11849
Re: ARTHUR GODFREY TIME (11/6/1958)
I agree completely about Godfrey, and the bewilderment modern audiences feel when confronted with a host who isn't telling jokes, spouting political commentary or introducing amateur singers. For me there's something oddly compelling about Godfrey. He rambles away at whatever pops in his head, and t...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 8:33 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Borrowing the Keaton Studio
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10451
Borrowing the Keaton Studio
This is likely old news for some of you, but it wasn't for me, so here goes. Apparently the Keaton Studio was available to outside producers when Buster was between films. The 7/8/27 issue of Motion Picture News notes that Herbert Brenon and company had been filming Sorrell and Son at the United Art...
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Slapsticon Notes: PROFESSOR BEWARE (1938)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14980
Re: Slapsticon Notes: PROFESSOR BEWARE (1938)
Terrific overview and analysis, Richard. I have nothing to add about the film itself, but it is fun to ponder the reasons for Lloyd's relative fall from grace in the 1930s. I have a couple of theories. First is one you already touched upon, that he was getting too old to play the same character that...
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 11:22 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: EXCUSE MY DUST (1920) Wallace Reid
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6807
Re: EXCUSE MY DUST (1920) Wallace Reid
You wouldn't know it from the YouTube video (because the bootlegger carefully edited out the credits when he stole our work and uploaded it without permission), but the excellent accompaniment on this is by Frederick Hodges, recorded for the Unknown Video DVD release.
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: Does it ever end?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 20619
Re: Does it ever end?
Unfortunately, the database of who appeared in episodes which aren't out on DVD are pretty scarce, so anyone have any prints or know of a database or where documents might be held, which might give information? Louie, Richard Bann has mentioned that he acquired dozens of Bob Cummings' personal 16mm...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:56 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The Death of Lonesome Luke
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16228
Re: The Death of Lonesome Luke
Well, I think I understand this issue better now than I did yesterday. It seems the only party unhappy with the Lukes was Lloyd himself, who by 1917 was so sick of the character that he was threatening to leave Rolin and work elsewhere. Richard Bann says Hal Roach wanted to continue making Lukes (an...
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The Death of Lonesome Luke
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16228
The Death of Lonesome Luke
We all know how, in 1917, Harold Lloyd began supplementing his usual Lonesome Luke comedies with one-reelers featuring his new glasses-wearing character. I can see Pathe giving Rolin the green light to try out a new series. But why did the Lonesome Luke series go away? We've heard that Harold was si...