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This is good to see. And there's plenty of Netflix money to spread around to various rights claimants.

Not to belabor the point, but as soon as Ron Hutchinson announced a new DVD set of incredibly rare 1928-29 Vitaphone shorts, someone pipes up complaining that they didn't include Keystone Hotel. Ron patiently explained that this set has every restoration completed to date and that it would be years ...

Lots of talk on the monster forums about the frames from lost Lon Chaney films, supposedly from a film archive in the Canary Islands. Of more interest are these Laurel & Hardy frames. You'll have to scroll down, but there are a couple of frames from Battle of the Century and one from The Rogue S...

Seems I'm always posting about comedies that have already been posted about, but here goes. A Lady and Her Maid (Vitagraph, 1913) was uploaded by EYE last year and it's hilarious. Co-stars Norma Talmadge and if you ever wondered what she looked like without makeup, it ain't pretty. Intertitles are i...

Many members of the mafia have attended at least one iteration of the Slapsticon, held in Arlington VA between 2003-10. Most attendees considered the Spectrum Theatre to be one of the stars of the event, featuring theatrical seating, a real projection booth that could accommodate two 35mm archival p...

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Here is a link to an article in the October 1929 American Cinematographer about Laurel & Hardy and Len Powers. There's a beautiful cover portrait too. Not much of substance in the piece (we know that they're very funny fellows), but it includes some production stills of Powers and the boys that...

The duo play moving men in an otherwise negligible Ruby Keeler musical, Ready, Willing and Able. Hilarity ensues. Turner Classic Movies Friday 1/6 at 12:15 PM EST.

I've watched this clip several times in the past week and it makes me smile each time. God, how I miss entertainers! And before anyone quotes that hoary old Steve Allen joke with the punchline "name two", this song is so good it counts as ten. Don't miss the cameo at 2:54.

MHDL has recently been uploading lots of individual issues lately, rather than complete runs, so these won't necessarily be easy to find unless you knew they were there. The new uploads are The Mack Sennett Weekly are: April 28 1919: https://archive.org/details/macksennettweekly01-1919-04-28 July 7 ...