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by Tommie Hicks
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
Replies: 2
Views: 342

Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!

I found this weird silent comedy entry on youtube. Its a very strange documentary that looks like it was made with A.I. I've been researching Snub for a number of years but I have heard nothing about him being a drug addict. Snub was too damn busy to be a drug addict in my opinion. There are some gr...
by Tommie Hicks
Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:36 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
Replies: 21
Views: 3841

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?
by Tommie Hicks
Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:12 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
Replies: 21
Views: 3841

Re: Her Friend The Bandit

When I started reading about Chaplin in the late 60's, there were about four lost Chaplin Keystones. All but HFTB have turned up. WH had access to all the Chaplin Keystone negatives in 1918. I believe if Chaplin was in HFTB, WH would have exploited HFTB as it would mean that WH ignoring a short with...
by Tommie Hicks
Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:51 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy
Replies: 6
Views: 7481

Re: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy

Not many will be impressed as the video quality leaves much to be desired, so one may want to view it on a small screen. https://youtu.be/9swsunwEQsA Here's one you don't see much. One of my favorites THE AGENT (1922) has great production values. This recording from the last century looks like an im...
by Tommie Hicks
Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:15 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy
Replies: 6
Views: 7481

Re: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy

There is a Jaimito version of this film with about three more minutes of content.

Spencer Bell did another picnic bit the same year in THE GOLF BUG.
by Tommie Hicks
Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:06 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: from DFI: Pat and Patachon - The Danish Duo that Conquered Germany
Replies: 3
Views: 9455

Re: from DFI: Pat and Patachon - The Danish Duo that Conquered Germany

I first heard of P&P on Rob Farr's late lamented superb website MUGSHOTS. Oh how I miss that site.
by Tommie Hicks
Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:52 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Does Chaplin's comedy still work?
Replies: 2
Views: 4688

Does Chaplin's comedy still work?

Here are some fellows a half a world away who have not known Chaplin. They are shown one of his best shorts and I found their observations fascinating. You may not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UlMUIAH7E
by Tommie Hicks
Sat Feb 11, 2023 3:36 pm
Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
Topic: Richard J. Anobile 76
Replies: 2
Views: 6763

Richard J. Anobile 76

I bought many of his books back in the day. It seems so strange now to buy a book of frame blow-ups. Also during my youth Anobile's books were the only way to somehow "see" these films. There was a debate among my film buff buddies if you read an Anobile book, can you claim seeing the movi...
by Tommie Hicks
Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:52 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: THE HONORABLE MR BUGGS (1927) Matt Moore, Anna May Wong, Oliver Hardy
Replies: 2
Views: 2616

Re: THE HONORABLE MR BUGGS (1927) Matt Moore, Anna May Wong, Oliver Hardy

The youtube channel this film, as well as BOX CAR LIMITED has been deleted. Was the channel deleted because they uploaded a video of a comedian in blackface from a near century ago? Jolson and Garland still appear in blackface on youtube.