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Please note that the website being sourced is the National Film Preservation Foundation and NOT the Library of Congress. Transfers on the NFPF site are done by the NFPF and not by LC. That's interesting, because when I wrote and complained to Annette Melville at the NFPF, she told me that the film ...

Again, transferred to damn slow, but here's a Sunshine Comedy with Slim Summerville and Ethel Teare: http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/her-first-kiss-1919 It's getting pretty bad when the Library of Congress is transferring films like MOONLIGHT NIGHTS , a poor little 192...

Here's an episode from Buster's 1951 filmed TV show I hadn't come across before. Buster goes on safari with Fritz Feld and hmmmm, somehow I had a feeling Ray Corrigan and his Gorilla suit was going to make an appearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVFJtFm90ro


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Mike O'Regan wrote:Is all his other silent stuff still around?

Nope, THAT ROYLE GIRL, THE POTTERS, and the three with Chester Conklin, TWO FLAMING YOUTH, TILLIES PUNCTURED ROMANCE, AND FOOLS FOR LUCK are currently missing.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Well, boys'n'girls, the Curtis book is, indeed, a vast improvement on his other two...ahem....books. Tell me this, and tell me no more, is His Lordship's Dilemma lost? I have been able to find Pool Sharks on YouTube but no sign of t'other. Yep, HIS LORDSHIPS DILEMMA is currently missing. RICHARD M ...

Chaplin gets a lot of undeserved praise for his decision to make and release Shoulder Arms while soldiers were dying on the battlefield. Supposedly Cecil B. DeMille warned him against it. But Harold Lloyd released Kicking the Germ Out of Germany on July 21 1918 and Monty Banks was in the cast of Un...

This is very sad news, not only was Bill Thompson an Arizona Legend, and a wonderful comic mind, he was also a friend. And unless you grew up in Arizona watching THE WALLACE AND LADMO SHOW in it's 36 years on the air, you won't get it. Here's a clip from the late 60's, with Bill playing a character...

christopher connelly wrote:does anyone know if any archive ever got William Saal's papers - either individually or as part of the KBS and/or Select productions?

Thanks!

Lemme guess, must want to find out stuff on FRANKIE AND JOHNNY, somehow I doubt you're researching TOMBSTONE CANYON.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

This is very sad news, not only was Bill Thompson an Arizona Legend, and a wonderful comic mind, he was also a friend. And unless you grew up in Arizona watching THE WALLACE AND LADMO SHOW in it's 36 years on the air, you won't get it. Here's a clip from the late 60's, with Bill playing a character ...

Another Welles appearance on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW from 1968 and more Shakespheare on a Network Variety Show:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59sNCF80C70




RICHARD M ROBERTS