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Hopefully I'll be able to report something after Christmas.

And yet... No doubt many casual readers of this forum are saying to themselves, "Wait a minute! Aren't you the same guys who just about plotzed over the Keystone set?" The difference is that Everson always strived to show the best available surviving material, no matter how "groggy&qu...

No, that's not the name of a Joe McDoakes comedy. In perusing Wm K Everson's program notes, I found this apologia regarding the print of The Pilgrim that he showed to the Huff Society in 1958: "Like most bootlegged Chaplin prints, this one is in pretty groggy shape. Obviously the 35mm print fro...

The only source that I've seen converning this discovery mentioned is http://www.silentera.com. His Lordship's Dilemma is listed on this page as a rediscovery: http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HisLordshipsDilemma1915.html I've corresponded with website owner Carl Bennett about this and it has al...

That religious media company isn't Modern Sound Pictures is it? They've been liquidating their inventory of old 16mm prints for so many decades now that I wonder if they aren't striking new "old" prints like some unscrupulous antique dealer.

Bing Crosby's "Please" was shown at Syracuse several years ago, leading one to hope that the other Paramount shorts survived somewhere and are just waiting to be discovered. Maybe Arvid Gillstrom buried them in the Mohave desert before he died.

With all due respect Agnes, we are surrounded by time travelers. We're travelling into the future at a rate of approximately one year per revolution of the Earth around the Sun.

(Rob the smarty-pants know-it-all)

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.