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Thank you, Richard. I was going by my 1972 copy of Maltin's THE GREAT MOVIE SHORTS (coincidentally the first film book I ever owned). Is there some behind-the-scenes intrigue behind the missing Paramounts? Of all the pre-Columbia Langdon talkies, theoretically they should be the most ubiquitous, giv...

Spurred by the upcoming cablecast of six of Langdon's 8 Hal Roach shorts, a friend and I are collaborating on a Langdon career overview for online - and possibly printed - publication. Between us we're combing trade publications and other materials at the Herrick library and elsewhere, as well as du...

Yep, this is spelling "Comedy Killing Shepard Slo-Mo" to me as well. So it will really be TWENTY MINUTES OF LOVE RICHARD M ROBERTS Sadly, you're right. I just watched GETTING ACQUAINTED and, to these eyes, the action seems even slower than the Image ESSANAY set. On the plus side, the mini...

Hey Mr. Hayde, what the holy heck is this "alleged" final Keaton television appearance and the Chaplin Mutual outtakes shown to be "supposedly" belonging to the Killiam Collection? You go find a later TV appearance for Buster shot after October 1965 before you get so questioning...

So how about a report on Slapsticon and the new Chaplin film? Here's one from a fan's perspective. I'd put my back out on Monday, so it was a bit of a struggle walking around all crooked and in (minor) pain, but it was worth going. Saw a lot of cool stuff: Thursday night: arrived in time to see &qu...

Excepting, as Brent Walker's book indicates, Lehrman didn't direct A THIEF CATCHER, Ford Sterling did. RICHARD M ROBERTS The press report in THE BIOSCOPE credited Lehrman with directing the film, and I'd thought they got that information from you. My bad; since I don't have Brent's book yet, I'll j...

I celebrated by re-reading RMR's wonderful "As I Was Saying..." essay.

Happy Anniversary, Godfathers.

Michael

Great research Michael! Thank you, Rob. First, I have to say I owe everything I've done - literally, everything - to Bo Berglund; specifically to his landmark article "The Day the Tramp Was Born" in the Spring 1989 issue of Sight and Sound . From that, I gleaned the best way to document T...

Michael, I see what you're talking about--that ad for ZUZU THE BANDLEADER from August 1914, listing Arbuckle and Chaplin in the cast. That was a kind of weird two-reeler in that it seems like Sennett all or partially distributed it outside of Mutual (this was when he was still getting flak from the...

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...