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Exactly. Chaplin was the gateway drug for many of us, because (depending on the TV market in which we grew up) Chaplin silent shorts were run on TV with some regularity. So (for me) my introduction to silent shorts came through Chaplin. Ditto Our Gang and 3 Stooges for sound shorts. And METROPOLIS f...

It was me. I dared to question Harris' identity and Danny locked the thread. At least the silliness won't continue there. Sorry, but anyone with a professorship who finds him/herself questioned will do two things: 1) when giving contact information about the institution where s/he works, s/he will p...

proving nothing, there *does* appear to be a Technologico de Monterrey - http://www.itesm.mx/wps/portal?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT= but I can't seem to find a "Mark H. Harris" as a member of its faculty. Working for a technical university myself, I can't say I'm particularly impressed by a "p...

Richard M Roberts wrote:Oddly enough Chris, UCLA has soundtrack negative on THE SPY, but no picture material in the Paramount Collection, but it may indeed exist on 16mm out there in the old NTA package.


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By heck, it wasn;t you, it was Maurice Terenzio, but here's a still from it: http://www.silentcomedymafia.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=706&p=3771&hilit=the+spy+tom+howard#p3771 I don't know it definitely to exist, but it's not impossible that it does, the Paramount Talkies shorts have a good...

what more do you want to know? I id'ed that still you had a few years ago. It's an early Paramount talkie short from 1929. RICHARD M ROBERTS Don't know why this didn't post before, but I'll try again: not me boss (though I would be interested in who *does* have a still from this and why.) I guess i...

anyone have any information on this 1929 paramount short with Tom Howard?

Allan Jenkins and Frank McHugh were always busy, not only in films and television, but also doing stage work (which is usually all-but-invisible to your average film historian, especially if it was non-Broadway work. No one has yet put together anything resembling a decent database of West-Coast Th...

Does anyone here have experience researching film grosses vs. negative costs? I know such information is available (at the Herrick?) for some/most/all MGM and WB features. I have no idea if there are any similar resources for Paramount, Universal and Fox (let alone shorts.) If anyone here could offe...

For those who may have missed the announcement, the NYPL is in the process of digitizing their trade periodicals. To date, perhaps their most valuable database is a complete run of BILLBOARD. While never as film-centric as some other trades, it was certainly as big a player as VARIETY, especially wh...