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Wow, GREAT news Paul! Thanks for the update on the good stuff in the pipeline, and I hope it won't be too much longer before you can tell us that our long wait for the silent Our Gang film set is over!

Plus the fact that it looks like practically everything being offered on these discs have already been previously released. I realize he has been battling health issues but it may had helped to release this set a decade earlier. Gary J. I thought the point of this set was that the films would be in...

Was he really that big of a deal, or is he an overrated figured foisted by Walter Kerr's fancy in 1975? HANDS UP and PATHS TO PARADISE are both great films. I really wish more of his stuff existed. He isn't my fave, but he's damn fine. I'd put him in the number 5 spot, after the Big Three and Charl...

I still have my Image laserdiscs which contain the Van Beuren scores in very nice sound. I wonder if these weren't slightly slowed down in tempo; it seems to me that the films in these video transfers are running at about 20 to 21 fps, and even though the soundtracks seem to be in their original pi...

Seven down, five to go. Thanks so much you guys!

Thanks Richard! That's pretty amazing...I got an answer from no less than the person who owns all the original cue sheets for these scores. And you've got cassette tapes of the scores as well...crazy. Did you record them directly off the films, or were these scores actually released from the origina...

Thanks Chris! I hadn't heard of this compilation before. I'm using my handy browser plug-in from ant.com with its handy Download button to grab this right now (an easier solution than the cut & paste Keepvid method, I find). It sure is nice to see Chaplin Essanay footage not in slo-mo for a chan...

Regarding Winston Sharples' and Gene Rodemich's work on the music & effects for the Van Beuren reissues of the Chaplin Mutuals, does anyone here know who did what on which films?

Probably not. Part of the reason we decided to go with WEISS-O-RAMA was that we had facial recognition with Ben Turpin and Snub Pollard, who have that sort of archetype status visually with even folk who don't know them by name but think of them in terms of silent comedy. It was also a different ec...

I bet it'd sell at least as well as Weiss-O-Rama. (Which I bought. And I'd buy Lupino too, in a heartbeat. So there's at least four copies. Better make one more so David P. can have one.)