Wrote a blog post showing an example of El Brendel's home movies. This reel is from Christmas 1939 and was just shot "off the screen". Hope you like it!
http://www.elbrendel.com/2014/12/els-ho ... 39_15.html
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- Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:28 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Brendel home movies - Christmas 1939
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7133
- Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville Silly Remark:Peter Ackroyd's Chaplin Biography
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15129
Re: Nitrateville Silly Remark:Peter Ackroyd's Chaplin Biogra
It's incredible. Washed up by 1940? Not Buster!
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:16 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Nitratevile Answer Dept: Chaplin Collaborators Lehrman Pic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12021
Re: Nitratevile Answer Dept: Chaplin Collaborators Lehrman P
Yeah, that site is really going to the dogs. I'm thinking I'm going to post on something and just don't because there are some real idiots over there who can't wrap their heads around certain things ever. And don't get me started on the ones who won't settle for anything less than blu-ray.
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:21 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Howard, Fine & Howard
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33075
Re: Howard, Fine & Howard
Great news, but the question for me is, is HELLO POP worth $21.99 (I have all the other shorts) RICHARD M ROBERTS It was just "meh" for me. Interesting to see historically but you have to know the Healy/Stooge section is only about 1 reel in length, the other reel is a dance number from &...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 10:24 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: More of El Brendel with ???
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21087
More of El Brendel with ???
If anyone can identify any of those people with El in these photos, let me know.
http://www.elbrendel.com/2014/09/more-of-el-with.html
http://www.elbrendel.com/2014/09/more-of-el-with.html
- Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:58 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: LARGE collection of DVD's for sale - 50% off!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13504
LARGE collection of DVD's for sale - 50% off!
Yes, I am resurrecting the DVD sale I had a couple of years ago, this time with prices MASSIVELY reduced, most up to 50%! All DVD's are single copies and are first come, first served. There's stuff from Warner Brothers, MGM, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Criterion, Image, Milestone, Masters of Cinema...
- Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:22 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: New update to the El Brendel blog!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 21333
New update to the El Brendel blog!
New blog post on the birth of "Olsen's Big Moment":
http://www.elbrendel.com/2014/09/unrealized-el-project-i-come-from-hell.html
http://www.elbrendel.com/2014/09/unrealized-el-project-i-come-from-hell.html
- Fri Sep 05, 2014 9:52 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
- Replies: 118
- Views: 187556
Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
That's the funniest thing Louie has said in months... There were no archives that would have taken the two-color negatives at the time, much less had any way of printing or restoring them. Eastman House was just getting up to speed and Iris Barry at MOMA would have turned up her nose at the materia...
- Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:22 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
- Replies: 118
- Views: 187556
Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE IMMIGRANT'S MISSING FRAMES!!!
- Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:49 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Capitolfest 2014 review
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19844
Re: Capitolfest 2014 review
Jim Reid wrote:That's good to hear. I see so many old guys at these things I figured they'd die out in another 20 years or so.
I'd say at least 15-20% of the audience was younger.