In Search of Lupino Lane on DVD
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:14 pm
Why is this so very hard to find?
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David B Pearson wrote:Why is this so very hard to find?
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Jeffrey Nelson wrote: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.)
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 economy and DVD market when we did that DVD just three years ago (in other words, nobody would be putting out WEISS-O-RAMA today). No matter how much our little group may admire Lupino Lane, he has zero recognition here in the states, and frankly, I'm not sure how much he has in the UK anymore. Perhaps a Grapevine or Unknown Video collection, but I doubt a major collection is forthcoming (of course, if there's one of those dreamers out there in the mood to lose money, I've got prints of a dozen or so Lanes).