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This started on the silent movie blogs and last night I saw it on the Yahoo News page. Skepticism abounds, but there are lots of photos and films of time travelers. Check out this modern day hipster caught on a trip back to 1940: http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-pho...

That sure looks like Snub Pollard on the right.

Oh great Louie. Now we'll "NEVER see Thelma Todd, Charley Chase, or any Boy Friends or All-Star Comedy on
DVD, much less the non-L&H feature films." Way to ruin it for everyone!

Sounds like there might be a market for Ben Model Alt Scores timed for 1.5x speed. Don't forget we need a score for 1.5x Tillie too!

Cue the ominous chords. Look at the running times to the right of the bitrate charts. The Knockout clocks in at half an hour, as does Dough and Dynamite. 85 minutes for Tillie, but that was expected since the Alloy score was timed for that speed. Most of the one-reelers come in at 12-15 minutes. Our...

I'm tearing up. Just in time for my birthday.

Movie Crazy came out 12 weeks after Make Me a Star. Maybe MMAS had an impact on Lloyd's box office, maybe it didn't. Hard to say when most movies stayed in the neighborhood houses for half-a-week then vanished forever.

I hope most of you DV-R'ed or TIVO'ed this 1932 remake of Merton of the Movies which ran on TCM at 4:30am EDT yesterday. It's a family reunion of many of our favorite characters: Ben Turpin, Snub Pollard, Victor Potel, Billy Rhodes, Bobby Vernon and Zasu Pitts. Turpin gets fourth billing essentially...

Aged 95 years! A comedy life well-lived. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6941HA20101005

Founding Nitratevillian Mike Gebert recently posted his review of the most recent Cinesation and dropped this little bombshell: "It was preceded by Mystery at the Old Mill (**), a freshly restored, modestly amusing 1916 Lloyd Hamilton comedy about mad doctors (billed as a Ham and Bud, but James...