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Gary Johnson wrote: Someone who stayed on will have to clue the rest of us in on what else played. Charlie did a good job recalling the extras that ran in the finale, but I also remember a Hank Mann short, the title of which escapes me. As does the story. I seem to remember him on a horse. Or a mul...

Nameless one asks about Sam Bernard, possible lost comic. Nope. I have a print of BECAUSE HE LOVED HER(1915), and we just showed A JANITORS WIFE'S TEMPTATION at Slapsticon. I believe he did indeed make a few records as well, and that I have one or two around here (but I could just thinking of Al Ber...

Hey Gang,

We've got the dates for Slapsticon 2014, Thursday through Saturday, June 26-29th at the Indiana Unversity Cinema, Bloomington. Mark your Calendar.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Richard, Thank you for the corrections; I will post them (minus the insults) over at Nitrateville. Of course I had no way of knowing for sure what these titles were mastered from, as I wasn't directly involved in said mastering nor did I claim I was, but was merely stating what it LOOKED like they ...

Well, I have been busy the last few weeks, so who’s had time to go take a look over there at Nutrateville, but, let’s face it, when one finally does have the time to take a gander, it’s beyond deadly dull over there these days. But one can once more chuckle at the general jack-assery , particularly ...

This book is everything I hoped it would be. (Frankly, I was expecting something like this from the RLW book on Roach.) Finally, we have a fully fleshed-out picture of the Roach output. Anyone who has the Lloyd, Our Gang, and Laurel & Hardy books in their library, would be foolish not to invest...

Andy Hunsucker and Andy Uhrich give a detailed report on their Slapsticon experience on this weeks episode of the Indiana University Cinema Podcast A PLACE FOR FILM: http://indianapublicmedia.org/arts/place-film-reviewing-slapsticon/ or you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtAWDCx4-...

A nameless one on Nutrateville postulates that perhaps none of Music Hall and Karno Comedian Billie Reeves films survive. I have three of them, all released by Blackhawk, A DAY ON THE FORCE, HIS WIFE'S NEW LID(both 1915), and A READY-MADE MAID (1916) and here's that 1930 short Reeves made: http://ww...

Here's some rarer Stooge-Fu from the 1965 Danny Thomas special also featuring martha raye and Tim Conway:







RICHARD M ROBERTS

David Kalat reports on a few of his favorites from this weekends Slapsticon 2013: http://moviemorlocks.com/2013/06/29/report-from-the-trenches-slapsticon-2013/ I'm sure more to come when other Slapsticonians have gotten home, sobered up, or had long naps. RICHARD M ROBERTS (who has not yet done any ...