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- Mon Aug 28, 2023 3:43 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: THREE AGES Cohen Media Restoration - Amazon Review
- Replies: 8
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THREE AGES Cohen Media Restoration - Amazon Review
Here's my Amazon review - if you should read it, remember this quote often attributed to Abe Lincoln: "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." Even more glad now that I have a 16mm print of THREE AGES. No doubt this Cohen Media restoration will be wi...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:05 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Flicker Alley - Laurel & Hardy: Year One - Blu-ray
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19414
Re: Flicker Alley - Laurel & Hardy: Year One - Blu-ray
William Ferry wrote:Pop Goes the Weasel!
To quote The Boys, "That's a good idea!"
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Flicker Alley - Laurel & Hardy: Year One - Blu-ray
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19414
Re: Flicker Alley - Laurel & Hardy: Year One - Blu-ray
As much as I am looking forward to these beautiful restorations, I'm hoping that the obnoxious, ten-ton orchestration to THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (found on the L&H Definitive Restorations set) is not repeated here. Talk about trying to be funnier than Laurel & Hardy! One bit of information...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:33 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville Comment Dept: Laurel and Hardy Year One
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15766
Re: Nitrateville Comment Dept: Laurel and Hardy Year One
The oddest thing - as of today - is that among all the responses since folks received their copy, not one discusses the films themselves! How's the quality? Any "new" footage found? Are the new scores dirge-like or high-kickin'? Come on, somebody at least should describe one short, they're...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 4:03 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Bowler hat/derby in slapstick comedies
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8168
Re: Bowler hat/derby in slapstick comedies
I'm not sure you will ever find a definitive first use of a bowler hat for comedic purposes since they were doubtless handy props in vaudeville. In Laurel & Hardy's 1927 Do Detectives Think?, their hats are meant to connote that they were tough gumshoes. But I think when you go back to the firs...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 5:08 am
- Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
- Topic: Carl Davis RIP
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18030
Carl Davis RIP
He created some of the most beautiful scores for the silents. Here in Germany his theme for Kevin Brownlow's HOLLYWOOD is being heard over the radio every day since his passing.
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- Sun Aug 06, 2023 4:59 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10745
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
I haven't seen Armilly in quite some time. Is there a scene with a slingshot or a gun being fired in Tom's direction? Not that I recall, Rob - but if memory serves Tom Wilson wears an eyepatch over his right eye in AMARILLY - something I had previously attributed to his "tough guy" role i...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10745
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
Hello Film Friends! Hope all of you are well. Joseph Blough has been posting some great and RARE stuff over the last couple years! Ed! I tried to post an article from January 5, 1918 titled: TOM WILSON LOSES EYE IN ACCIDENT But will have to give you some of the text instead. In part: (Wilson) "...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10745
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
Rob Farr wrote: He may just have been wall-eyed. But Ed, I'm interested in what you thought of it? Even considering that Masquers' shorts had to cram in as many out-of-work comics as possible, to my eyes its prime pre-Code W&W. I'm with you Rob, this is top-notch Wheeler & Woolsey all the w...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:20 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10745
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
Here I am, big Wheeler & Woolsey advocate and all that, just having watched OH! OH! CLEOPATRA, and my question is: does anyone know whether Tom Wilson had a glass eye? His eyes often appear slightly crooked in his major silent roles but the bit he performs with them here (if this is indeed Tom W...