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- Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:49 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
- Replies: 45
- Views: 85162
Re: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
So after all was said and done, did anyone catch the last show broadcast live around the globe on Sunday? Unfortunately, I totally spaced it out. Forgot all about it (Damn that Alzheimers). And this after spending the previously week reviewing all of the endless Python talk on YouTube. So much for ...
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:11 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Almost MOSTLY LOST
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18265
Re: Almost MOSTLY LOST
Going through the MOSTLY LOST 3 program book today: number 67, the Billie Rhodes/Cullen Landis/Billy Bevan short is WALTZING AROUND (Mutual Strand Comedy released March 5, 1918). number 97 is THE VULGAR YACHTSMEN (Standard-Cinema-FBO released November 15, 1926) with the Three Fatties and Gale Henry....
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:03 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Almost MOSTLY LOST
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18265
Re: Almost MOSTLY LOST
Beaucitron a du Flair. 14 minutes. Director: Charles Parrott. Cast: Snub Pollard, Noah Young. Synopsis: After escaping from a police office, Beaucitron (French name) meets a leading actress from the theatre at the entrance lodges. He manages to sneak into the theatre but accidentally messes up the ...
- Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:53 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: RIPS AND RUSHES (1917) HUghey Mack and Jimmy Aubrey
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5372
Re: RIPS AND RUSHES (1917) HUghey Mack and Jimmy Aubrey
Gary Johnson wrote:This played at SLAPSTICON, did it not?
Yep, in Rob Stones Rarities last year.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:49 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: RIPS AND RUSHES (1917) HUghey Mack and Jimmy Aubrey
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5372
RIPS AND RUSHES (1917) HUghey Mack and Jimmy Aubrey
With Larry Semon Directing.
Transferred too damn slow once again at 18 fps (and this is a Library of Congress preservation, you;d think they would know better), but at least you can see it:
http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserv ... ushes-1917
RICHARD M ROBERTS
Transferred too damn slow once again at 18 fps (and this is a Library of Congress preservation, you;d think they would know better), but at least you can see it:
http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserv ... ushes-1917
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:34 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Almost MOSTLY LOST
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18265
Re: Almost MOSTLY LOST
If you' haven't done so already, join the Friends of Mostly Lost FB page. Lots of up to the minute reports with screen shots. In other words, if you haven't made your deal with the devil and joined Facebook, you are SOL. This comes from silent comedy mafia's so-called "up to the minute" M...
- Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:21 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Unidentified Glen Lambert...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13323
Re: Unidentified Glen Lambert...
DaveGlass wrote:Yay. Thanks Richard!
How did you ID it?
Frequently one finds things one is not looking for at the time when one is researching something else.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Unidentified Glen Lambert...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13323
Re: Unidentified Glen Lambert...
The title on this film is THE BATHING BEACH BOOB, it is indeed a Bray Co Comedy from 1928.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:04 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: Orson Welles plays Falstaff on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (1967)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10647
Re: Orson Welles plays Falstaff on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (196
You right. I didn't think of the timeline before but Welles was holed up in Europe til about the mid-Sixties, hiding from creditors, drinking good wine and squirreling away his treasures in various French chateau's to be discovered later.....like his print of TOO MUCH JOHNSON. And doing a bit more ...
- Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:53 pm
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Silent "Our Gang" question (not the usual one)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 50478
Re: Silent "Our Gang" question (not the usual one)
Gary Johnson wrote:What with this and the Langdon discovery, you've been on quite a roll this past month solving your own lifetime film mysteries.
No, I 've had this print quite awhile, I just noticed yesterday that we had a thread talking about this from ages ago.
RICHARD M ROBERTS