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Splendid photos, Bruce! Thanks for sharing!

That's an amazing photo of Bobby Clark, Louis. Great stuff! Keep 'em coming!

From my personal collection -- Young William Claude Dukenfield:

Keaton appeared on an episode of CBC's CLOSE-UP (April 1, 1962) titled THREE COMEDIANS. Frank Willis introduces the program while Bob Quintrell interviews Buster Keaton, Bert Lahr and Eddie Foy Jr. Toward the end of the program Buster gives a fantastic pie throwing demonstration which is not much di...

I ran across this comedy compilation (set to Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo) on YouTube. Deftly handled. The editor didn't miss a trick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIC94gEUuc8 Enjoy! -- Paul E. Gierucki You might also notice that I have added new BBCode which allows YouTube videos to be em...

I, too, have always been fascinated by this film and have been collecting various film prints, stills, lobbies, posters and memorabilia from it for nearly twenty years! I only wish that I had known about the book sooner as I would have gladly shared my archive. Alas, the timing was wrong and it was ...

Many thanks for posting this link, Andrew! I was able to fill some gaps in my Arbuckle research, turned up a few key points which have eluded me for years!

Man, how I love this group.

-- Paul E. Gierucki

An educational site called FATHOM hosts some of the Columbia University Oral History recordings: Gloria Swanson Meets Mack Sennett: http://www.fathom.com/feature/121832/index.html "All of This as a Child": Jackie Cooper Remembers Louis B. Mayer: http://www.fathom.com/feature/121806/index.h...

The site lists no source or credits, the various Sennett bios confirm nothing, and the usual online searches turn up the same. It is not the Turning Point interview, the text of which can be easily found online, and it isn't from the W.C. Fields "Biography in Sound" tribute (1956) so I'm g...