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- Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:05 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Little Jerry, Sliding Billy Watson and Ed Lee Wrothe
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6408
Re: Little Jerry, Sliding Billy Watson and Ed Lee Wrothe
Didn't Ed Lee Wrothe's grandson David front for Van Halen many years later?
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:23 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Marcel Perez
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9771
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:25 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: RKO Two-Reelers
- Replies: 28
- Views: 56324
Re: RKO Two-Reelers
Louie Despres wrote:Frank,
Ralph asked me to take some photos of the screen from last night's showing of the "Halfway to Hollywood" short:
Thanks Ralph and Louie. I find these Columbia titles very cool. Simple minds, simple pleasures, I guess.
- Mon May 21, 2012 4:44 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Rare silent comedy shorts found
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19404
Re: Rare silent comedy shorts found
I do not know release dates for these titles, but NO VACANCIES was copyrighted on 12/27/21 and THE JANITOR'S WIFE on 4/13/22, so that gives a feeling for the timeframe. It is certainly possible that Eddie Barry also appeared in non-Neely Edwards Speed Comedies. Barry was also appearing in Broadway C...
- Mon May 21, 2012 2:27 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Rare silent comedy shorts found
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19404
Re: Rare silent comedy shorts found
Ralph – The Jack Duffy title sounds like one of the Speed Comedies released by Arrow in 1921-22. This unit, headed by Reggie Morris, started making comedies for Special Pictures Corporation. When Special fell apart, the unit (including performers Neely Edwards, Charlotte Merriam, Margaret Cullington...
- Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:28 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: John Wayne NOT in CAREFUL PLEASE with Lloyd Hamilton
- Replies: 21
- Views: 45656
Re: John Wayne NOT in CAREFUL PLEASE with Lloyd Hamilton
My favorite part of all of this is that the dates just don't work. CAREFUL PLEASE was produced too early to match up with the rest of what is known about Wayne's early career. I agree that the pictures don't look like him, but then again there can always be pictures that do not look like who they ar...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:37 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: PURE AND SIMPLE (Fazenda) - survival status & availability?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23776
Re: PURE AND SIMPLE (Fazenda) - survival status & availability?
The cue sheet? Holy mackerel! All I can add is that production started on this short July 5, 1930, at the Darmour Studio, 5823 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, California.
Where does one find these cue sheets? Was it part of the Lee Zahler collection at (I think) UCLA?
Frank
Where does one find these cue sheets? Was it part of the Lee Zahler collection at (I think) UCLA?
Frank
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:58 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Vim / Jaxon Comedies
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19063
Re: Vim / Jaxon Comedies
Based on pictures I think I recall seeing in the past, the "Pokes and Jabbs - THEATER" on the suitcase that Burns is holding might not mean that they are at the Pokes & Jabbs Theater, but rather that the suitcase belongs to Pokes & Jabbs, and the railroad on which they have been tr...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:35 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND
- Replies: 30
- Views: 57880
Re: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND
Richard M Roberts wrote:Now, were the Educational Exchanges closed, or sold off?
RICHARD M ROBERTS
I think I have read that they were closed, and Educational's exchange employees (at least some of them) moved over to the Fox exchanges to handle sales of short subjects.
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:50 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND
- Replies: 30
- Views: 57880
Re: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND
As noted above, Educational bought the old Lesser studios (7250 Santa Monica) in the mid-1920's. The Metropolitan Studios at 1040 N. Las Palmas had been built / expanded / controlled by Al and Charles Christie. It was converted to sound production, and the Christies moved their base of operations to...