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by Brent Walker
Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:15 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Blog on A THIEF CATCHER and other Slapsticon Sennett goodies
Replies: 0
Views: 4267

Blog on A THIEF CATCHER and other Slapsticon Sennett goodies

I just posted a new blog article with details about A THIEF CATCHER, and some of the other Sennett-related films I saw at Slapsticon and Library of Congress during my trip:

http://macksennett.blogspot.com/
by Brent Walker
Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:16 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Harold Lloyd and a monkey smoke
Replies: 9
Views: 16022

Re: Harold Lloyd and a monkey smoke

Is it THE KID BROTHER, with Josephine the monkey (the monkey from the medicine show act that Harold ends up putting boots on so Constantine Romanoff thinks there's another person on the top deck of the ship)?
by Brent Walker
Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:22 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Stan Laurel Fondly Remembers "When Knights..."
Replies: 3
Views: 11478

Re: Stan Laurel Fondly Remembers "When Knights..."

From a book that is on all our shelves, Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy by John McCabe: "I wish they'd re-release When Knights Were Cold ," Stan has said. "I guess maybe I'd like to see it again because it has one beautifully funny sequence that I've never seen in movies---either before o...
by Brent Walker
Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:23 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: who are these two guys?
Replies: 3
Views: 7697

Re: who are these two guys?

Dino, it looks like Sid Saylor driving the car. Presumably its one of his "Let George Do It" films for Universal.
by Brent Walker
Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:15 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: The Crossroads of New York
Replies: 1
Views: 4964

The Crossroads of New York

Kudos to David Kiehn (author of Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company--which, if you don't yet own, you need to have!) has just informed me that he identified a snippet of film held by the Berlin archive as being from the Sennett feature THE CROSSROADS OF NEW YORK--the first footage I know of e...
by Brent Walker
Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:26 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: RUM AND WALLPAPER (1915)
Replies: 9
Views: 16099

Re: RUM AND WALLPAPER (1915)

What do we know about Eddie Nolan? When did he start at Keystone? Phil, the "we" who bought Mack Sennett's Fun Factory (which hopefully is or will be a whole lot of "wes"), know a whole lot about Eddie Nolan, because it's all there -- his many Keystone credits (including a whole...
by Brent Walker
Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:44 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Frame Grab from A Thief Catcher (Feb 19, 1914)
Replies: 11
Views: 18084

Re: Frame Grab from A Thief Catcher (Feb 19, 1914)

Louie Despres wrote:I found this and think I like it:

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I expect to be a little bit fatter on July 18th.
by Brent Walker
Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:01 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SLAPSTICON 2010 to unveil lost and unknown Chaplin Film
Replies: 35
Views: 61116

Re: SLAPSTICON 2010 to unveil lost and unknown Chaplin Film

I'm still convinced there is a 37th Chaplin Keystone film out there, which would actually be his first released: HOW MOTION PICTURES ARE MADE, the most likely candidate for that mysterious frame of Chaplin with Mabel Normand at the switchboard. There may be a 38th, if you and the other Mafiosi woul...
by Brent Walker
Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:43 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: WON IN A CLOSET (CUPBOARD) with Mabel Normand preserved
Replies: 0
Views: 4586

WON IN A CLOSET (CUPBOARD) with Mabel Normand preserved

"New" Keystones seem to be turning up all the time! In today's Los Angeles Times, there was an article about a partnership between The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive to preserve and make available 75 American nitrate films: http://www.latimes.com/ent...
by Brent Walker
Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:34 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SLAPSTICON 2010 to unveil lost and unknown Chaplin Film
Replies: 35
Views: 61116

Re: SLAPSTICON 2010 to unveil lost and unknown Chaplin Film

Ahh, I'm away all weekend and got home last night to discover that my book is already "outdated." Just kidding (though I wish it could've been discovered 6 months earlier :) ). Seriously, an unbelievably incredible discovery Paul! The frame grab is tantalizing, and I really look forward to...