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Reviving another ancient thread, I can now state that I indeed have found a true Hal Roach print from Onyx Pictures! A print of THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY that I picked up awhile back has an Onyx Pictures THE END title on it! A nice print, with original opening and inter-titles, but the replaced Onyx e...

"The Eagle has landed! In collaboration with Newspapers.com, and building on an earlier digitization initiative funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, BPL now offers the full run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, from 1841 to 1955, as a free online resource. Learn more abo...

If it'll help, the flash titles are: "Right Dress... Hup!" "Number!" "I can still hear someone who is not numbering!" "Right turn... Hup!" "Brrr... and don't forget that immobility is the soldier's finest movement." "Faugh! I swallowed the lot, ...

And, on July 23rd, we can celebrate the 100th Anniversary of an event that has brought more laughs to the planet than that Chaplin Guy ever has. On that date, The Rolin Film Company was formed, and Hal Roach went into the film comedy business.......... RICHARD M ROBERTS THANK YOU!!!! For the past 3...

Gary Johnson wrote:

Uli Ruedel wrote: Much harder, it seems, to find their complete TV shows!

Yeah......why is that?

Because music rights issues play havoc with Dean's solos, musical guests, etc. In short, blame the lawyers.

Michael

I did a two-part article for my Old-Time Radio club's newsletter about Martin & Lewis on Radio, to which I will shamelessly link here: http://www.mwotrc.com/rr2003_02/mandl.htm The series you're citing is actually from the 1951-52 season, and was written by their COLGATE writers: Ed Simmons and ...

RICHARD M. ROBERTS wrote: There are minor quibbles (Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was not the only major star to come out of Triangle, William S. Hart really solidified his stardom there too, and that’s not Director Lloyd Bacon with Joel McCrea in the still from KEPT HUSBANDS, it’s Bryant Washburn), but the...

CHAPLIN'S VINTAGE YEAR: THE HISTORY OF THE MUTUAL-CHAPLIN SPECIALS is now available, the initial print run having completed. For now, it's found exclusively at BearManor Media's website, and if past history is any guide, it won't be up at Amazon in time for holiday shipping. Those of you who ordinar...

I have a different 4-minute excerpt from Unidentified #1 on an Atlas Films "Kiddie Movie" titled OH, YOU NURSE. Right now it's at the LoC for (hopefully) the Show-and-Tell portion of MOSTLY LOST III. Michael My moneys on that one being I'M CURED (1924), but you never know. RICHARD M ROBER...

Can't we at least make fun of Mark Cousins accent some more? He's the only film historian I know that sounds like an Irish Valley Girl. Mark Cousins responds (softly): “Speakinngg? as the most coldly unemotionalll? filmmmm historiannn? on two-and-a-half planetsss?, I am highly insulted by thisss?, ...