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- Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:01 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Now streaming at stumfilm.dk: two classic Pat & Patachon features
- Replies: 1
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Now streaming at stumfilm.dk: two classic Pat & Patachon features
The dear friends and colleagues from the Danish Film Institute have now made the first two classic Pat & Patachon / Long & Short / Fy og Bi features available for streaming in HD: AT THE NORTH SEA / VESTER VOV-VOV https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/streaming/film/vester-vov-vov THE FILM HER...
- Sun Nov 06, 2016 5:29 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Laurel & Hardy: Spot On! (Book & CD) - Kickstarter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 17206
Laurel & Hardy: Spot On! (Book & CD) - Kickstarter
More Laurel and Hardy Lost and Found, courtesy of Michael Ehret: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077802584/laurel-and-hardy-spot-on-book-and-cd?ref=thanks_link Intriguingly, Michael adds: "If we succeed in raising over €11.000 between now and December 15, 2016, we can offer all supporters...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 1:47 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: THE RAILRODDER
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5420
- Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:56 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Lobster's KEATON PROJECT - Kickstarter
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12978
Lobster's KEATON PROJECT - Kickstarter
"Help us restore films with Buster Keaton! A project by Lobster Films. To restore the entire Buster Keaton short-movies collection is a crazy project; 32 films, over 650 minutes, and over a million frames ! When we started this project we knew how ambitious the task would be. It took us a few y...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:38 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Marx Bros. 4K restorations - help needed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6769
Marx Bros. 4K restorations - help needed
A message from John Tefteller, re-posted here with his approval: "Universal Studios Marx Brothers Blu-Ray Update!!! Help wanted!!! [...] I have had further dialog with the folks at Universal that are working on the restorations of the Paramount Marx films this morning and I can report the follo...
- Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:10 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Notfilm (Buster Keaton, Samuel Beckett - FILM) Kickstarter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18573
Notfilm (Buster Keaton, Samuel Beckett - FILM) Kickstarter
Here's another chance to support a documentary production & Blu-ray release via Kickstarter, this time from the Milestone friends:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/870959691/notfilm-a-new-documentary-by-ross-lipman?ref=video
Please support and share.
Uli
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/870959691/notfilm-a-new-documentary-by-ross-lipman?ref=video
Please support and share.
Uli
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:50 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Great Clyde Bruckman Article and Forthcoming Book
- Replies: 19
- Views: 35814
Re: Great Clyde Bruckman Article and Forthcoming Book
For any German readers around (Ed, is it just the two of us?), here are a couple vintage articles on the 1976 German theatrical (that one didn't get very far) and 1980 television revival: http://pdfarchiv.zeit.de/1976/12/der-strebsame-optimist.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14317663.html ...
- Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:42 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Great Clyde Bruckman Article and Forthcoming Book
- Replies: 19
- Views: 35814
Re: Great Clyde Bruckman Article and Forthcoming Book
Ed, did you know how that one, albeit regionally limited, Lloyd revival that I'd say did have some success, on German television, came about? Pretty much all I know is that Richard Correll must have been invloved. The Time-Life Lloyd theme song was used, but other than that the versions were origina...
- Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:46 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Clowns
- Replies: 17
- Views: 34706
Re: Clowns
Guess it would, and the Diercksen book does list it an alternate title for the 1926 film, while Naef's filmography doesn't include it. I've only seen part of it as well... did we watch it during the same Slapsticon, or has the 2nd reel of the LOC print gone missing? BTW, British Pathé has some nice ...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:00 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Clowns
- Replies: 17
- Views: 34706
Re: Clowns
That's the second half of Grock, la vie d'un grand artiste (1931), which apparently has often been shown as self-contained piece, probably as it's deemed superior to the first half, which is basically a domestic comedy with the 'real' Mr. Wettach. As briefly mentioned, the French and German version ...