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Well, once again, among the general doldrums and misinformation, a couple of laughs over at Nitratevile this weekend: Mike Gebert got after a member for deleting their posts in the 90th Anniversary Chaplin Mutual thread (Delete posts? How dare they! That’s his job!). Then, in a thread about Father B...

Post-Python, here's a pilot Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams did at the Beeb that apparently was not known to exist until recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vf-ctYnBPo



RICHARD M ROBERTS

ORCHIDS AND ERMINE It can be quite entertaining to watch feminist revisionism try to fit silent stars like Marion Davies (sleeping with a millionaire who made her a star) or Louise Brooks (slept with practically everyone and having every opportunity handed to her on a silver platter while blowing pr...

It's ALIBI ALLEY allright, the Weiss Brothers rip-off of LOVE EM AND WEEP, which can be seen complete on WEISS-O-RAMA.



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Yep, it's MOTORBOAT DEMON, I've got a print of this.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

DaveGlass wrote:... two more unidentified clips to annoy you with...
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj2dPzt ... jPQ/videos

THE GENERAL STORE is not JUST LUCKY, but it may likely be NO LUCK.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

I stop by his Website every day just to look at the pics he has posted for the day. And they are all from his collection, are they not? He always credits the original owner when they are not. Yep, he has a fabulous collection of material which he generously shares on Greenbriar Picture Shows. RICHA...

More nice words about the book from John McElwee’s not-to be-missed Greenbriar Picture Shows: http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2013/10/comedy-back-on-road.html Worth a look just for a nice still from Charley Chase’s SOMETHING SIMPLE (1934), a yummy swimsuit shot of Viola Richard, and a new...

Okay, I was reading John Bengston's second piece on THE BLACKSMITH where he expostulates that he thinks this newly discovered version of the film is actually the final finished version and the one we have been seeing for years is some early version that Keaton shelved and then re-shot. He bases this...

More details on the new Lobster DCP of the alternate version can be found in the Pordenone catalog: http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/allegati/GCM13_Catalogo_WEB.pdf And yes, it's quite different from the known version, and does have one of Keaton's most memorable gags ever (not preserved in the...