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This fun Roscoe Arbuckle-Directed Lloyd Hamilton Educational Comedy was a hit at one of the Slapsticons years back, featuring both lovelies Ruth Hiatt and Addie McPhail, as well as Ed Brady, Dan Wolheim, William McCall and Glen Cavender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed46VBTM90c

RICHARD M ROBERTS

William, I think you meant, "Good Show Max", I merely put it up on the mafia. And I'm proud to say I have a copy of that Hirschfeld drawing autographed by Max up on one of my walls. I'm sure that was drawn when Max was doing his Broadway show in the early 70's, but of course it became his ...

The only saving grace is, if you run it at sound speed, it should only be around 5:25. Still not, to coin an old phrase, the most effective use of my time. I could watch a good triple feature (to say the least) during that time. But, to each his own. Not to get off on a tangent, but someone's runni...

Here's an HFE 100 foot version of the Al Christie comedy with Jimmie Adams, Lorraine McKean, Billy Engle, Harry Martel, and Gloria Killian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbuYZDmuTE You Know, I'm not sure Joseph Blough is spending his money wisely anymore on expensive Archive transfers of incomple...

Here's the first reel of a very early Vogue Comedy released by Mutual September 3, 1916, directed by Rube Miller, and featuring ben Turpin and Rube supported by Lawrence A. Bowes and Edward J. Laurie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nOuRjk3TTE

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Since we have Max Morath up there, here's two more good documentaries on Ragtime: First, a PROJECT 20 Doc from 1960 hosted by Hoagy Carmichael called THOSE RAGTIME YEARS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hMNAyErh4A&t=1847s and a 1977 CBC Doc called THEY ALL PLAYED RAGTIME, based on the book of t...

One of the perhaps silver linings when a famous person passes is it tends to coax out some of their work from oblivion. Case in point with Max Morath, who passed away last year and his passing brought to light his early NET show THE RAGTIME ERA (1962). Now here's LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE, a filming of ...

Ya know, over at that sorry little site right now are two threads that are mutually complimentary, the former is "When Death Appears Wonderful" and the latter is the announcement of the new seven-hour restoration of NAPOLEON. Yep, at the end of viewing a seven-hour version of NAPOLEON, dea...

It's so cute that Charlie spells her name as "Mable." Oddly enough, he was not the only one, I've seen Normand's first name spelled that way in a number of reviews and even some of the Mutual press material for the Keystones. Odd because I've never known or known of anyone named Mabel who...

I’ve always thought one of the most interesting pieces of evidence that Chaplin may not be in HER FRIEND THE BANDIT is the fact that he does not include the title in his early handwritten 1914 filmography. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53537094479_4e11319142_b.jpg Now admittedly, he does miss ...