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by Richard M Roberts
Wed Apr 30, 2014 2:50 pm
Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Notes: TRIUMPH (1917) with Lon Chaney
Replies: 0
Views: 5086

Cinevent Notes: TRIUMPH (1917) with Lon Chaney

TRIUMPH This is a tale of a Girl named Nell (Dorothy Phillips) who has ambitions to be an actress. While awaiting the train to New York, she meets the leading man of a repertory company (William Stowell) and when they get to the Big Apple, he introduces her to the company’s Stage manager (William J....
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:07 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Notes: CAMPUS KNIGHTS (1929)
Replies: 0
Views: 3985

Cinevent Notes: CAMPUS KNIGHTS (1929)

Party Animal Earl Hastings (Raymond McKee) is frequently mistaken for his identical twin brother Ezra, who, of course, is a meek professor at an all-girls college, and of course, some of Earl’s antics, especially his flirtations with various college females, get him mistaken for the innocent Ezra an...
by Richard M Roberts
Sun Apr 27, 2014 12:17 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Ben Turpin - Step Forward (1922)
Replies: 5
Views: 9439

Re: Ben Turpin - Step Forward (1922)

Gosh Mr Roberts, you have everything! Then why is there still so much to buy? This looks like a really great Sennett too, so hopefully we'll all get to see it one day. (maybe at the '8mm Slapsticon' event held next year in your garage...) It is a very good Sennett/First National, and it;s nice to s...
by Richard M Roberts
Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:21 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Ben Turpin - Step Forward (1922)
Replies: 5
Views: 9439

Re: Ben Turpin - Step Forward (1922)

No sorry, it's not the whole thing! Just some tantalisingly short clips. According to Brent's book, it survives at UCLA (in whole or in part?). Anyone here seen what they've got? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2ypsw-GKM I have a complete 8mm print of this short. We did look at the UCLA print yea...
by Richard M Roberts
Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:40 am
Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Notes: SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD (1944)
Replies: 0
Views: 8708

Cinevent Notes: SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD (1944)

Republic Pictures was in many ways the highest link in the B movie food chain, certainly after both Universal and Columbia found themselves tottering on the low ends of the A picture food chain. Formed in 1935 by Herbert W, Yates, the owner of Consolidated Film Industries, one of the largest film la...
by Richard M Roberts
Wed Apr 23, 2014 5:44 pm
Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Notes: EIGHT BELLS (1935)
Replies: 1
Views: 7518

Cinevent Notes: EIGHT BELLS (1935)

Well, with this year’s Cinevent now basically a month away, we will start running some of the program notes I’ve written for this year’s show to whet your appetites to think about coming. If you are thinking about coming, here’s the link to Cinevent’s website: http://www.cinevent.com/ And here’s the...
by Richard M Roberts
Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:02 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: More Mickey "McGuire" Rooney...
Replies: 2
Views: 5041

Re: More Mickey "McGuire" Rooney...

Just added two more clips of Rooney from his silent days. 'Unidentified #2' could be 'Mickey's Triumph'? 'Unidentified #3' is probably 'Mickey's Wild West'? If you're able to confirm, that'd be absolutely super... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj2dPzt7WQj1XIIOaNA8jPQ/videos Enjoy! #1 is MICKEYS ...
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:49 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Babe's 100th Anniversary
Replies: 3
Views: 6405

Re: Babe's 100th Anniversary

What is the earliest film of Oliver Hardy's currently available for viewing? That’s a good question, very few of Oliver Hardy’s Lubins exist, as far as I know, the earliest surviving one is still BACK TO THE FARM (released August 18, 1914) in which, oddly enough, Babe is teamed with the diminuitive...
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Apr 21, 2014 3:42 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Babe's 100th Anniversary
Replies: 3
Views: 6405

Babe's 100th Anniversary

Okay, forget all this Chaplin Centenary Crap, today we're talking an important century milestone:

OUTWITTING DAD, released by Lubin, April 21, 1914.

100 years ago today, movie audiences got their first look at Oliver Hardy.


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by Richard M Roberts
Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:43 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SENNETT and CHAPLIN MUTUALS available for pre-order!
Replies: 29
Views: 43477

Re: SENNETT and CHAPLIN MUTUALS available for pre-order!

RICHARD M ROBERTS Which, for an item like this would be sizeable. It's Flicker Alleys decision and I basically have stayed out of the arguement either way (though I was a bit annoyed that I was going to have to buy a BD player as well to see a set I've worked on), but this arguement just tipped the...