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by Ian Elliot
Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:42 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND
Replies: 30
Views: 56975

Question regarding THE STAGE HAND

This picture always seemed to me strangely extraneous to Langdon’s Educational series, but it may be an odder duck than I thought. I had assumed that in directing and writing it personally Langdon was seeing through a pet idea he had at the time, or that Arvid Gillstrom was temporarily unavailable. ...
by Ian Elliot
Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:26 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Ed Wynn introduces "Silent Television"
Replies: 13
Views: 22482

Re: Ed Wynn introduces "Silent Television"

Happy New Year, Everyone. The CBC have posted another short slice of this CLOSE UP segment with some interesting comments from the Messrs. Keaton, Lahr & Foy:


by Ian Elliot
Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:21 pm
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: CAMERA Comedy Clippings, September 15, 1923
Replies: 51
Views: 87848

Re: CAMERA Comedy Clippings, September 15, 1923

Two items came up when I ran the details on Clarke-Renalle through a newspaper search. In the Mansfield News, Nov. 23 1923: Grace Cunard will replace Rosemary Theby in "The Elk's Tooth," the Renalles, Inc. picture. The cast includes Kate Price, Peter Burke, George McDaniels, David Dunbar, ...
by Ian Elliot
Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:26 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: And HELLO???
Replies: 24
Views: 39705

Re: And HELLO???

By my own machinations a copy was under the tree for me, and I've been gorging away on it this evening. Copious, thorough, authoritative, fascinating. Thank you!
by Ian Elliot
Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:48 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: And HELLO???
Replies: 24
Views: 39705

Re: And HELLO???

Sorry, Jim, Ingram only supplies retailers. Your local bookstore (if there is one) could order it through them for you, though they'd have to mark up the price significantly (no dealer margin is available). Amazon may be accumulating orders before getting copies, so for the moment I reckon the faste...
by Ian Elliot
Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:12 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: And HELLO???
Replies: 24
Views: 39705

Re: And HELLO???

Ingram the wholesaler has copies, is shipping them now, if all goes according to Hoyle I'll be reading it on the 25th. Great news!
by Ian Elliot
Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:06 pm
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Buster Keaton's Silent 2-Reel Credits
Replies: 9
Views: 18783

Re: Buster Keaton's Silent 2-Reel Credits

Thank you for all these IDs, Steve. In this capture, the best view we get of the Rolls owner, he doesn't quite look like Bruckman to me: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2576/4161335318_c4f490afd4_o.jpg But I think this is Bruckman, along with Joseph Mitchell, standing by during the goat gland episode...
by Ian Elliot
Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:49 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Down on the Farm Sheet Music
Replies: 7
Views: 18233

Re: Down on the Farm Sheet Music

The Johns Hopkins JScholarship site has the music and lyrics viewable in jpeg form--

https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/ha ... 74.2/24156

--and a contemporary instrumental version of it can be heard here:

http://www.archive.org/details/DownOnTheFarm_963
by Ian Elliot
Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:00 pm
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Buster Keaton's Silent 2-Reel Credits
Replies: 9
Views: 18783

Re: Buster Keaton's Silent 2-Reel Credits

This would add very little to Keaton scholarship, and I expect that it's been noticed before, but I think Mal St. Clair is one of the two engineers from the train that nearly runs over Buster toward the film's end. Going out on a limb here: the equestrienne who receives the shock absorber does some ...
by Ian Elliot
Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:44 pm
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: CAMERA Comedy Clippings, September 15, 1923
Replies: 51
Views: 87848

Re: CAMERA Comedy Clippings, September 15, 1923

Thank you again for posting these fascinating pieces, Joe. It's interesting, and, one assumes, coincidental, that Jacques Tati would come to be identified by his shortish triangular outer garment thirty years later. A great still from HORACE GREELEY JR. turned up recently on Ebay, with Harry, June a...