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I picked up the three-volume DVD set that came out here in Germany several years ago. It was nice to see Bobby Vernon’s face on posters in all the major supermarket chains. Besides lots of rarities, I was surprised to see segments lifted out of the Youngson compilations (like THE BATTLE OF THE CENTU...

Charley Chase ’27 is in The House! . Here’s my review: It's no secret that Charley Chase was one of the greatest (and funniest) comedians of silent movies. At his height in the 1920s, he turned out dozens of two-reel comedy gems one after another. Today his films are enjoyed and revered by a huge f...

Looks like Deep Discount is kicking Amazon's ass on price for the Chase 27 set, you can get it there now for $23.99: https://www.deepdiscount.com/charley-chase-at-hal-roach-late-silents-1927/760137162735 The discs are printed and shipped, and DeepDiscount is now shipping them to customers. Go get i...

"This short features rare footage of Jean Harlow, Bela Lugosi discussing ‘Dracula,' and Walter Huston performing a musical number. It survives in fragmentary form.” Starts out routine, but soon becomes the best Voice of Hollywood entry I’ve ever seen. https://youtu.be/MRNQ8PUIWPg?si=n4E2FQprCzZ...

I didn’t care for this at all. No inflection or discernable accent in the voice, which (to me) sounds nothing like Charley Chase. It sounds more like the actor who voiced the giraffe in the MADAGASCAR movies. Animating an iconic portrait of Charley into something so robotic was outright creepy. YouT...

This use of A.I. is all the more remarkable considering the creator's comment: all of the footage cobbled together comes from different versions of THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY that was found on YouTube. No Blu-ray, DVD or film was sourced, just YouTube. If low-res can be upgraded with A.I. to show cla...

Hollywood Travelogue from the late 1920s showing exterior wall of the Hal Roach Studios with billboards of Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, and the edge of a Max Davidson billboard (Max’s is a tantalizing loss - and Charley Chase's signage is also missing). A blurred L&H billboard can also be spott...

A one-year digital subscription to the Library Journal costs $157.99, but the Barnes & Noble website now features the Journal's full reviews for free. Here’s the review for SHEMP!:

We comedy buffs live in exciting times and if this set isn’t proof I don’t know what is... Fifteen titles equals 5 hours-plus of rare Charley Chase by my tally. Guess I’ll just have to drop whatever I’m doing the moment my Blu-Ray arrives! Richard, Paul, Kit - thank you all for making the impossible...

Six hours behind the East Coast - but I’m checking in now to say THANK YOU, Paul - how I missed this site!