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While it may not be definitive, I did a Lantern search on the media history digital database for the years 1924 to 1930 and also on newspaperarchive.com for all states over the same period of time and could not come up with a single reference to any Malcoln Sebastian (or Sebastion), nor to a Big Bo...

I heartily recommend the recent BIG BOY collection he put out, featuring a number of rare Educational Juvenile Comedies featuring Malcolm Sebastian. He's currently working on a Lupino Lane Collection, which will have a number of rare titles, some from my Collection, and a FUNNY MANNS Collection as ...

No, not the ones hanging up in his closet. The other ones he's been including with his dvd feature releases. Jolly Jack's been sneaking out some rarities recently on his Grapevine label. I caught the Snub Pollard short CALL FOR MR CAVEMAN a couple of months back on his 'Adam's Rib' release. And thi...

Need to find who owns a copy of this 1932 Lowell Sherman sound flick for a preservation project - I know it is out there, but can't find who has one......Oh and Richard I will ship out the short next week. I have one last trip out of town then I am home til summer and can catch up on stuff like tha...

Well, several things are definite about the C.K. Comedies in the Kriterion Schedule, first, they were definitely the also-ran series in their program, not mentioned in the listing of the other companies in the articles and publicity surrounding the formation of Kriterion, then they are barely public...

Pasquale Ventura wrote:Did these have music scores? All of the ones I've seen either have no score or a newly added one.

Nope, no scores on the prints.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Hey Gang, Ed Watz added a great five-star review for the Book on Amazon today: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989301907/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Here it is to save some of you a mouse click: "Instant Classic: THE Essential Book on the Films of Hal Roach! By Edward WATZ on...

Forgive me for saying this Phil, but basically, you never had any real evidence that Helen Carruthers is the woman in those Chaplin Keystones, and you have even less that Carruthers is actually Peggy Page or that Peggy Page is a stage name for Carruthers. As I said before, the one picture of Carruth...

Here's a curious one: over at Nitratevile yesterday, one of the nameless ones had started a Christmas Purchase reccomendations list with SMILEAGE GUARANTEED at the top of the list, and today, mention of the book and the whole thread has mysteriously vanished. Is this a new level of pettiness they h...

Here's a curious one: over at Nitratevile yesterday, one of the nameless ones had started a Christmas Purchase reccomendations list with SMILEAGE GUARANTEED at the top of the list, and today, mention of the book and the whole thread has mysteriously vanished. Is this a new level of pettiness they ha...