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"The one that started it all" for my generations of German slapstick aficionados will hit DVD in February, all 199 episodes that is: https://fernsehjuwelen.de/Vaeter-der-Klamotte-Gesamtedition-Alle-199-Folgen-20-DVDs/6424637 For anyone else, it could at the very least be a fun ID game, alt...

Dear all, a question from film restorer Werner Petrell: what's the origin and earliest instances of the banana peel gag? There are some online texts like this, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31135/how-did-slipping-banana-peel-become-comedy-staple , that sound like they might ring true, one of t...

Thanks for the ID (as it happens, also independently confirmed by Steve Massa)!

Uli

Courtesy Bundesarchiv, the surviving mute, happy ending, bastardized sound re-release version of Murnau's NOSFERATU:
https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/video/3014/682058

Uli

Courtesy of the new access portal of Bundesarchiv:
https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/video/61037/688206

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Norbert Aping's seminal work has now been published in an English translation - here's a first review:
https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/charlie-chaplin-and-the-nazis-the-long-german-campaign-against-the-artist-2201714
Uli

More vintage HD Harold Lloyd, including comments on BK & CC. German voice over, Munich 1963.

https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL3ZpZGVvLzUyYjBlMGI3LWI1NWYtNDAxNS1hOWMyLWQ1NmM1ZWVjZmQ3YQ

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Dear all, or rather, dear German speaking part of the community, posting or lurking, if anyone has or knows of off air recordings of the following episodes of Väter der Klamotte , Norbert Aping would be thrilled to hear from you: 140. Die lästige Wampe 148. Ein Sheriff im Unterrock 149. Die zertramp...

Oops! Now corrected with the link proper in the above.

Uli

More from PP expert, Jannie Dahl Astrup, with an English subtitled video introduction by Liv Thomsen: https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/themes/pat-and-patachon

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