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This also raises the question of how a performer in a major motion picture can do a musical number with the star and not have a credit anywhere?? I imagine there would be documentation in the MGM records ... ? Well, El Brendel was in the 1938 film "Happy Landing" with Sonja Henie and neve...

Thank you Rich and Richard,
I did a Google image search on Marion Shilling and there are similarities in appearance, but it looks as if we're now all in agreement; that Doris McMahon is the singer/dancer with Buster in Free and Easy. Thanks for your help.

Thank you for taking the time to look into this, Richard ... This also raises the question of how a performer in a major motion picture can do a musical number with the star and not have a credit anywhere?? I imagine there would be documentation in the MGM records ... ? Jim gave me another lead that...

Can anyone help with this? I received an inquiry from Jim Magorian of Lincoln, Nebraska. He asks: Can anyone identify the singer/dancer with Buster Keaton in the "Free and Easy" dance number from the film of the same name? Both Wikipedia and IMDB says it's Marion Shilling, but I believe it...

The discussion of average shot length began with Barry Salt, but it was not designed (at least in Salt's work) as a marker for judging individual filmmakers, rather it was designed to demonstrate the change in average shot length in films over time and how the average shot length may have been infl...

Really ... this looks like an inconceivable excersize in futility. It seems as if he's trying to prove whether size matters ... but in a conspicuously sterile fashion!!

"When we showed it to people their draws just dropped" ... Now that's effective propaganda!! I want to see this reel.

"A watershed moment in film history" ... What the ..?? There was a legitimate Chaplin find that happened last year and, yes it rightly made international news, but this? I agree with Mr. Farr that there have been far more worthy discoveries and if a lost Pat Sullivan cartoon was found, I d...

My question is, if Lantz didn't do any animation at Sennett, who did do the nice little animated gags you see in films like GOOSELAND (1925) or the animated playing card in A HAREM KNIGHT (1926)? RICHARD M ROBERTS Pinto Colvig did some animation for Sennett ... Not sure if it was for those specific...

These are great stills ... I don't know about Lantz working for Sennett, but I know he worked for Bray and did a seies of comedies with animated characters incorporated into the live action called Dinky Doodles. These stills look like they're from one of the Bray comedies in the late twenties with T...