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- Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21083
Re: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
I saw Going Ga-Ga at a MoMA screening years ago and it is so fragmentary as to be incomprehensible. What survives is less than a reel of scraps.
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:39 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Kinos Sherlock Jr/Three Ages BluRay/DVD
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6535
Re: Kinos Sherlock Jr/Three Ages BluRay/DVD
Hopefully I'll be able to report something after Christmas.
- Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:02 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: So You Wish You Were a Silent Film Fan in 1958
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11861
Re: So You Wish You Were a Silent Film Fan in 1958
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...
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:36 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: So You Wish You Were a Silent Film Fan in 1958
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11861
So You Wish You Were a Silent Film Fan in 1958
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...
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:29 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Bristol Slapstick Festival Schedule Announced
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14600
Re: Bristol Slapstick Festival Schedule Announced
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...
- Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:58 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: New DVDs: Marx Bros in a Nutshell & WC Fields Straight Up
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5340
- Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:14 pm
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Life With Buster
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17854
Re: Life With Buster
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.
- Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:36 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Langdon Talkies Sought
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14022
Re: Langdon Talkies Sought
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.
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:35 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin Time Traveler?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16425
Re: Chaplin Time Traveler?
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)
(Rob the smarty-pants know-it-all)
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:15 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin Time Traveler?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16425
Re: Chaplin Time Traveler?
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...