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An exciting discovery; this one could be hiding in plain sight in a can that everyone assumes is an Our Gang short. I hope many prints were struck. Dave Denton said the same thing to me the other night, all archives should immediately check their cans marked "Mail and Female" now to make ...

That's right, bud. BTW, there's no "all those other comedians" - just the two, Keaton and Chaplin. Aww, come on MIke, there must be other comedians you dislike, don't tell me you've seen them all? You've already admitted to disliking the Pythons, Chaplin,and Keaton, so that's three right ...

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/06/27/monty-python-has-last-laugh-farewell-reunion-255516.html?piano_t=1 Classic current stupid media question of the day, "Were the Pythons ever really that funny?" Answer: "Yeah you moron, they effin' were.". RICHARD M ROBERTS I think you'll find t...

The only thing worth watching from the first David Copperfield Special. Orson Welles doing some good old fashioned mentalism:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6Ctw-ZWG8



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here’s an interesting item I came across recently in a Pathepictures catalog of non-theatrical rental films selected for religious, educational and social groups dating from 1925: http://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/catalogueofpathe00path_0046 Note the Harry Langdon film listed as MAIL AND FEMALE, ...

Here's actually a pretty good backlash article about the Pythons:


http://thequietus.com/articles/15649-monty-python


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Seems rather topical:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKL4V4KN5y4


Happy Fourth of July Everyone!


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Well, I know this will come as no big surprise, but Serge Bromberg and David Shepard have managed to suck the life out of some classic comedy once again with this new Kino/Lobster Max Linder Collection with their trademark slide-presentation film speeds. As always, a real pity, as the prints look go...

Another dose of Columbia Comedy, Hugh Herbert and Dudley Dickerson in ONE SHIVERY NIGHT:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRzdv62OL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k8Zb75FSsU



RICHARD M ROBERTS

W. C. Fields played Captain Andy in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's SHOWBOAT only once, for two weeks in August 1930 for the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company. The lucky people of St. Louis and outlying areas were the only ones to be so blessed as to see a man play a role he was born to play. Th...