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I had to chuckle today at that other minor silent comedy newsgroup where I had to get someone to remove my words regarding the return of Slapsticon that they had permissionlessly posted there. The spineless weasel who runs that group (who remains nameless on it and will so here as well) took umbrage...

Hey Gang, We broke the news at my Charley Chase show at Cinevent yesterday, so I thought I’d better let you know first thing here and now the big story: SLAPSTICON returns in 2013 at its new venue at the University Theatre at Indiana University in Bloomington, June 27-30, 2013! This is VERY recent n...

NO VACANCIES can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5yvtAj8FrU


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Just acquired 3 original silent prints. 1. Jack Frost - 1923 Roach Pollard 1R short directed by Charley Chase 2. Unknown title - 1924? Jack Duffy 2R 3. Clunked on a Corner - 1929 - Johnny Berkes & Vernon Dent 2R Hey Ralph, just askin, but are you capable of posting anything that isn't just you ...

David Denton wrote:How about John Qualen?

Or Greta Garbo?


RICHARD M ROBERTS

This is interesting, someone's trying to do some very fast learnin' in film history:


http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=5644


RICHARD M ROBERTS

To be fair, here's the latest word from the John Wayne looneys:


http://dukefanclub.blogspot.com/2012/04 ... wayne.html


RICHARD M ROBERTS

For the record, this is not a closed forum. I personally handle the bulk of board maintenance and the other Godfathers (both Richard and Rob) kindly agreed to temporarily disable new memberships while I am away working on new restoration projects. Anyone claiming anything to the contrary is incorre...

Okay, wasting even further time, I realized last night that I did indeed have a digital transfer of the scene in CAREFUL PLEASE that John Wayne is incorrectly alleged to appear in, we used it for SLAPHAPPY, so here are a few scans from the transfer. Remember, this is a fast moving scene,with undercr...

Now it gets truly psycho: http://dukefanclub.blogspot.com/2012/04/open-letter-to-richard-m-roberts-and.html One does not even really feel like answering such a frothing-mouth bit of nonsense, except maybe a few points. I know I need not repeat my credentials to anyone around here, and my credentials...