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- Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:57 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: BBC Radio 4: Unknown Peter Sellers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7048
Re: BBC Radio 4: Unknown Peter Sellers
The Unknown Peter Sellers may be gone, but here is an hour-long radio documentary on Sellers' life called Being Here: The Peter Sellers Story. It will be on BBC Radio 2 for the next 6 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t5vdw
- Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:03 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Film Flashes: Wit & Wisdom of a Nation (Judge, 1916)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15509
Film Flashes: Wit & Wisdom of a Nation (Judge, 1916)
Soon after Slapsticon I visited Wonder Book in Frederick MD and picked up a volume I never heard of called Film Flashes: Wit and Wisdom of a Nation). It was published by Judge magazine, which I take to be a kind of American "Punch". I quickly realized that it was a yearbook containing arti...
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:16 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: BBC Radio 4: Unknown Peter Sellers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7048
BBC Radio 4: Unknown Peter Sellers
Less than one day to listen to Glenn Mitchell's great audio documentary on rare and unknown Peter Sellers recordings. Saturday afternoon it goes "phhhhtt!" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t32rs
- Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:39 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Stan Laurel Fondly Remembers "When Knights..."
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11568
Stan Laurel Fondly Remembers "When Knights..."
From a book that is on all our shelves, Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy by John McCabe: "I wish they'd re-release When Knights Were Cold ," Stan has said. "I guess maybe I'd like to see it again because it has one beautifully funny sequence that I've never seen in movies---either before or...
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:05 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Last Serial w/ Al St John
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12927
Re: Last Serial w/ Al St John
The Last Serial is Curses! , a 1925 Educational comedy credited to Grover Jones but widely accepted to have been directed by Roscoe Arbuckle. Glenn Photo didn't know what they had and created the title and the "Mack Sennett Comedy" ID out of whole cloth. I rate it as one of Educational's l...
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:12 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy Finally Released
- Replies: 23
- Views: 44776
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:41 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Question - Lupino Lane
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12855
Re: Question - Lupino Lane
The Library of Congress has Lane's first talkie, "Buying a Gun". Here is the cataloging info if you want to call it up before you get to town. http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=Lupino%20Lane&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E%2A&CNT=100&PID=TnuCuG...
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:26 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Question - Lupino Lane
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12855
Re: Question - Lupino Lane
I have an unpublished biographical article which I'll give you next week. Lupino descended from two long-time theatrical families. As he tells it in his authorized biography, Born to Star, one of the Lane aunts was concerned that her surname was dying out due to a lack of newborn males in the Lane f...
- Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:14 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy Finally Released
- Replies: 23
- Views: 44776
Re: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy Finally Released
Yeah, I've be waiting for another su...uh, customer...to actually get a set in-hand before sending in my hard-earned dough.
- Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:42 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: SLAPSTICON 2010 to unveil lost and unknown Chaplin Film
- Replies: 35
- Views: 62253
Re: SLAPSTICON 2010 to unveil lost and unknown Chaplin Film
NIce article in The Washington Post about A Thief Catcher and Slapsticon. Good quotes from Paul and Richard. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06255.html