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Finally! An excellent copy of a Hamilton Educational talkie without the crappy Atlas Television title and 5 minutes hacked from the running time. Courtesy of Joseph Blough. https://youtu.be/lAI-GSZxbIc?si=dRaXA5k2g9toZmxw

Ed Lorusso has generously opened up his Vimeo page so that many of his silent restorations can be viewed online, here: https://vimeo.com/user27103127

Thanks so much for the kind words, Ed.

Courtesy of the generous Joseph Blough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb8620d ... kLAYcqIYzv

Paul, you got a shout-out from Frank Santopadre at the end of the podcast. He even pronounced your name correctly! Did you introduce Curtis to Santopadre?

Thanks to the generosity of Joseph Blough and the BFI, we can now watch When Two Hearts Are Won , released by Kalem in 1911. Not only is this earliest glimpse we have of Sidney on film, but it is a record of the vaudeville skit that the Drew's performed for over 15 years. It is incomplete, but Mr. B...

I have always wanted to see this film and the Vitaphone Soundtrack Project just posted reel 1 on YouTube. Lloyd Hamilton has a prominent supporting role, but he isn't in this reel. And Beatrice Lillie is a delight in anything she appears in. The film is advertised as "lost", but it survive...

Just a note that Amazon has cut the prices on both the hardback and paperback versions of Presenting Mr. and Mr. Sidney Drew. The paperback is selling for $42.59 and the hardback from $41.83, 24% off! John McElwee's Greenbriar Picture Shows posted a nice review yesterday, which I quote in full here:...

Poor Jack Carson has to reel off a mind-numbing list of statistics about disc jockeys at the end. Being the trouper that he is, he gamely plows through it, doubtless making some faceless, gray-suited copywriter very proud of himself. That being said, I thought this would have made a very nice series...

Many thanks to Trav S.D. and his Travelanche blog. https://travsd.wordpress.com/2026/06/12 ... ot-my-own/