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Very interesting to watch these side by side. I'm assuming these two different language versions were done the same way as say Laurel and Hardy did multiple languages of the same film. The camera setups vary and for a bit I thought scenes without language were of the same actual performance shot fro...

For those interested, here's Mr Voorhees' Draft Registration card from June 05, 1917:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/T ... cc=1968530

I was hoping to see height but it is not listed. His occupation is Moving Picture Actor for Rolin Film Co at 406 Court St

A great set, unbelievably crisp images! Like someone said elsewhere, now you notice things you did not notice before. I hadn't noticed before that in The Dentist you can see that the daughter has a pair of ice tongs above her bed. I imagine I could see it (now) in other editions but it has never lea...

Gary - Thanks for the explanation about the running gag of stars not appearing. I haven't listened to enough of these shows to catch on that. The state these shows exist in make them hard to listen to (and for me anyways, the 'comedy' in these early shows makes them hard to listen to, the glory days...

Who knows what other on-air gems we are missing out on today? The surviving broadcast of THE CIRCLE is indeed a great show, and the other great surviving thirties broadcasts have to include the one and a half surviving episodes of FLYWHEEL, SHYSTER AND FLYWHEEL, their 1933 NBC show that became the ...

The New York Times gets in on the act:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/movie ... spots.html

The live bits stand out for me, Chico and Harpo doing their 40 year old four handed piano routine is my favourite so far. Chico is full of an energy I usually don't associate with him. The act is even updated to include a Harry Truman reference and it certainly beats the version done ten years earli...

Charlie Case's obit from the December 01 1916 Variety:

http://archive.org/stream/variety45-1916-12#page/n12/mode/1up

He's listed as a having an albino mother and Irish father.

It got a two page review in the New York Times this past weekend (by Peter Bogdanovich):

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/books ... .html?_r=0

A December 1917 ad for The Movie Dummy

http://archive.org/stream/variety49-191 ... 0/mode/1up