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- Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
- Replies: 118
- Views: 188441
Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
I don’t know whether the stupidity level or just the number of posts dropped over at Nitratevile today, it’s a hard call, but the main bon-mot of brainlessness was John Aldrich’s proving he knows nothing about THE LAST OUTLAW, which I must agree with David Shepard (and how often does that happen?) i...
- Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:56 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: J-U-N-K (1920) with Hank Mann
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5539
Re: J-U-N-K (1920) with Hank Mann
J-U-N-K is on the Alpha Home Video DVD-R release SILENT COMEDY, VISUAL PIONEERS. It was one of my Christmas prezzies. http://www.oldies.com/product-view/7129D.html The original transfer (from a 35mm nitrate) was done by Grapevine Video, apparently that transfer has been "borrowed" for sev...
- Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:15 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: AMERICAN SILENT HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FEATURE
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5281
AMERICAN SILENT HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FEATURE
I definitely want to put in a nice word about John Soister and Henry Nicolella’s (along with Steve Joyce, Harry H. Long and Bill Chase)’s encyclopedia AMERICAN SILENT HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FEATURE FILMS 1913-1919: http://www.amazon.com/American-Science-Fiction-Fantasy-1913-1929/dp/0786...
- Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:29 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
- Replies: 118
- Views: 188441
Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
Michael Hayde gets the award today for dealing with the Nitratevile Nameless One determined not to be undone by facts and wanting desperately to be right that KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE was made before MABELS STRANGE PREDICAMENT. I think my favorite bit was “Lonesome (and I’ll bet he is lonesome) Luke...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:10 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Kinescopes/early TV
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8583
Re: Kinescopes/early TV
A reference on Facebook to the "Industrial Strength Keaton" DVD set had me going back and watching it again this weekend. One section has some early Buster Keaton television appearances including a turn on the Ed Wynn show doing the molasses routine from "The Butcher Boy". I was...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
- Replies: 118
- Views: 188441
Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
Lets see, the whines continue, someone who has been lucky enough to see a video copy of KING OF JAZZ whines that he cannot see a better one, poor baby. Bob Birchard says that I am right that SEVEN MEN FROM NOW is not a B western, but then says folk should go ahead and call it one if they feel like i...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 4:28 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson Centenary
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8610
Re: Max Davidson Centenary
Max affects me the same way Lloyd Hamilton does: The more I see of his work, the more I realize I haven't seen enough. (Not so with Chaplin.) Yes, that hack Chaplin had such a limited bag of tricks.....constantly holding his hand to his face when he was surprised. Why didn't he learn to do somethin...
- Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:01 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
- Replies: 118
- Views: 188441
Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
Damn, some of the people over at that site are (pardon my French) fucking idiots. They think film preservation & restoration is free and you snap your fingers and it happens instantly. Thats right, if it ain't the Archives letting their films molder in the can, it's those damn film collectors a...
- Fri Feb 21, 2014 2:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson Centenary
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8610
Re: Max Davidson Centenary
RICHARD M ROBERTS wrote: A Century ago today, Max Davidson found his acting career turning towards film comedy, and we should celebrate by laying out a nice roast chicken dinner (only if the neighbor does not notice his prize rooster missing), with perhaps a deflated birthday cake reinflated with g...
- Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:56 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson Centenary
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8610
Max Davidson Centenary
Today is the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of Max Davidson in what was the first Comedy Film Series he would make. The film released was AN INTERRUPTED SÉANCE, made by Reliance for Mutual and was directed by Edward Dillon and starred Tod Browning with Max in support. Davidson would work ...