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Joe Moore wrote I only know of two of Stone's Roach films being extant- Sherlock Sleuth and Just a Good Guy. The series appears to have had a troubled production history. One entry (production number E-4) was abandoned after a week of shooting. Two others (E-9 and E-11) appear to have been complete...

It is with profound regret that we are announcing the cancellation of Slapsticon 2011 and Slapsticon’s severing of relations with the Artisphere, the new group that replaced the old Arlington County Cultural Affairs this year that had presented the Slapsticon at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theater since 20...

How did you get involved with this project, Richard? Kit Parker asked me to do it. I had a print of the film and knew it, but had not really looked at it in years. Whats interesting is that it has a number of rare European comedy titles including a couple of Max Linders, a Polidor, and a Little Mor...

Eh, well, what the hell, a good review is a good review:

http://blogs.ktla.com/bluray/2011/05/si ... s-dvd.html


RICHARD M ROBERTS

This week Jonathan Winters was the guest on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, here: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_173_-_jonathan_winters Maron is a working comic who produces his twice-weekly podcast from the road. He gets a lot of mileage from his interviews with fellow comics because the...

Well, I'm not sure that is correct. As I recall, it's a later vintage comedy than the Moranti Reelcrafts, which ended in 1921-22, and Moranti did so many other independent series. But then again, i'm going on twenty-plus year old memories of the last time I bothered to look at the film. The actual ...

This short, as "Kidding the Kidnappers" is on a recent release from Loose Than Loose called Manchester 2010 Mirthquake Obscurities. Here's what they have to say about it: "Kidding the Kidnappers" (not the correct title) (Bull's Eye - Reel Craft; 1920s) Cast: Milburn Morante. One...

I vaguely remember this short, it's a Charles Tarbox reissue (with Charles Tarbox retitling)of a MIlburn Morante comedy thats not very funny and unfortunately one of his mid-twenties independents, not one of his Grover Jones- directed Reelcraft comedies, which are actually pretty good. RICHARD M ROB...

I've been reading varying accounts of how Roach & Laurel's business relationship soured after BABES IN TOYLAND . Randy Skretvedt seems to imply that they rarely talked after that movie while Richard Bann insists that they stayed friends right up to their contract termination in 1940. Is the tru...

Excuse me? Langdon was given all the time he needed at Roach to make his first talkies, and they're fine. I wasn't referring to production time as much as time to allow the series to gel. He only got to make 8 shorts before the plug got pulled. His last four shorts showed that he was starting to fi...