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The release of the DVD box set this week offers a special surprise; of the 199 episodes of this series, four must be considered lost, but three of these have been reconstructed for this set. For the fourth, practically no trace survives, and the Kirch copies of the source films have been included in...

A treasure trove of German (or German voice over) historic radio interviews: Lang, Hitch (speaking German), Welles, Anny Ondra, Henny Porten, Grock, Disney...https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/br-retro-gespraeche-und-interviews/94799814/

Uli

Thanks! Know these DVDs -- that program was aired in short segments of several minutes in ARD's regional programs in the 1980s (if memory serves) as AUS ALT LACH NEU, hosted by Dutch TV personality and, apparently, film collector, Maarten van Roojen ( https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_van_Rooije...

Courtesy Bundesarchiv; all that survives is a mute print as far as I recall: https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/video/3014/682058

Uli

That sounds like yet another series; KLAMOTTENKISTE (mostly?) used music by Conzelmann/Haensch, like this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAPRSTgvjPk . VdK had Strittmater/Amper -- here's a nice rendition, from lockdown times apparently, of that show's main theme: https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Looks like this has been, ahem, "lifted" from here, where it might thus be a tad better: https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/video/1333/685918

Uli

Two nice, albeit potentially geoblocked surprises: BLOCKHEADS streaming until Jan 7: https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtN2Y5MjhhODctZGVhYy00ZmEwLWE0MTktZWQ1OWE4YWI0OGJh I take it this is the same (cut?) version as on UK Blu. And, until Jan 21, 2025, and not on ...

Ed, what kind of DVD set would that be? There hasn't been any proper release of this series at all, only of its follow-up (from a different creative team), KLAMOTTENKISTE, and those DVDs are badly cropped I understand. It's now available for pre-order: https://fernsehjuwelen.de/Vaeter-der-Klamotte-G...

"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...