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Ya know, over at that sorry little site right now are two threads that are mutually complimentary, the former is "When Death Appears Wonderful" and the latter is the announcement of the new seven-hour restoration of NAPOLEON. Yep, at the end of viewing a seven-hour version of NAPOLEON, dea...

It's so cute that Charlie spells her name as "Mable." Oddly enough, he was not the only one, I've seen Normand's first name spelled that way in a number of reviews and even some of the Mutual press material for the Keystones. Odd because I've never known or known of anyone named Mabel who...

I’ve always thought one of the most interesting pieces of evidence that Chaplin may not be in HER FRIEND THE BANDIT is the fact that he does not include the title in his early handwritten 1914 filmography. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53537094479_4e11319142_b.jpg Now admittedly, he does miss ...

Here's three minutes of a Charlie Bowers Educational Comedy from 1928:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPRRgpsdr0

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Thank you Thierry - that's exactly the information I was seeking! Richard We’re glad you’re happy Richard, but I hate to tell you, with all due respect to Thierry, it’s still nothing but a guess, an educated guess perhaps, but still a guess nevertheless. Unless Thierry was physically present at the...

This Roscoe Arbuckle-Directed Educational Cameo Comedy may have been Billy Dooley's first talkie (he had gone back to Vaudeville when Christie let him and his other silent comedians go in 1929). Released December 27, 1931 and featuring Billy with Addie McPhail (Mrs. Arbuckle): https://www.youtube.co...

Here's most of Reel Two of this Vogue Comedy released by Mutual March 24, 1917, directed by Robin Williamson and featuring Ben Turpin with Gypsy Abbott, Edward J. Laurie, and Arthur Currier and perhaps a look at the lot where the Vogue Comedies were filmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cajS65bWu_...

It has always boggled my mind just how clueless Mack Sennett was about Talkies. Here was the man who had made dizzyingly fast paced silent comedies who didn't seem to have ever figured out sound comedies needed pacing as well, and he didn't even seem to figure it out after several years! Didn't he w...

Yep.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's a chunk of a Stern Bros Century Comedy released by Universal August 31, 1921, directed by William Watson and featuring Charles Dorety, Bert Roach, and the Century Lions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vvWihKSZCw

RICHARD M ROBERTS