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by Tommie Hicks
Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:21 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: SHOULDER ARMS restoration
Replies: 3
Views: 1990

Re: SHOULDER ARMS restoration

I have researched Feiner and an interesting fellow was he. Feiner convinced a judge that the Laurel and Hardy stills were not posed photos, but frame grabs of actual films he owned the rights to. Until the 1970's film stills were never copyrighted. This masterstroke allowed him to make a living suin...
by Tommie Hicks
Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:12 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: KALTON LAHUE'S SILENT LEGACY: A REUNION WITH SAM GILL AND FAMILY
Replies: 4
Views: 3872

Re: KALTON LAHUE'S SILENT LEGACY: A REUNION WITH SAM GILL AND FAMILY

I have been reading Mr. Lahue's books for over 40 years and this is the first time I have seen his face. I copied in their entirety three of Lahue's books on public library Xerox machines at a dime a page. In the early 1990's my local library had computer access to all books available by inter-libra...
by Tommie Hicks
Fri Jan 03, 2025 12:39 am
Forum: SCM 101
Topic: Weiss Bros Title Inquiry
Replies: 2
Views: 5575

Re: Weiss Bros Title Inquiry

Snub is not in this. I seem to remember someone telling me years ago that this short was made while Snub was in New York making those two talkie shorts. I thought I had a clip but damn if I can find it now. Joe is dressed as a swell and Marvin is wearing a bathrobe.
by Tommie Hicks
Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:06 pm
Forum: SCM 101
Topic: Weiss Bros Title Inquiry
Replies: 2
Views: 5575

Weiss Bros Title Inquiry

What is the name of the Weiss Brothers short that features Marvin Loback and Joe Young throwing milk bottles at each other.

Thanks in advance.
by Tommie Hicks
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: It's Here!
Replies: 3
Views: 4841

It's Here!

Well whadya think? Is AI the next controversy regarding existing comedy films?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iidVRWx3y8A
by Tommie Hicks
Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Chico Marx plays "Waltzing Matilda" (1948)
Replies: 9
Views: 23576

Re: Chico Marx plays "Waltzing Matilda" (1948)

Publishers Central Bureau: there's a name I haven't heard in a while. They were another money magnet in my youth. I still have the Fields double album, Groucho at Carnegie, and a couple of the George Garrabedian L&H albums, and many books.
by Tommie Hicks
Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Mafia Webinar: Collecting Classic Comedy Films pt 3
Replies: 8
Views: 15355

Re: Mafia Webinar: Collecting Classic Comedy Films pt 3

Does anyone know who Cinema8 duped from?
by Tommie Hicks
Sun Sep 22, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Need info on "Help Yourself" (1927) NOW WITH PICTURES
Replies: 16
Views: 37102

Re: Need info on "Help Yourself" (1927) NOW WITH PICTURES

Louie, Over the years I had not known any of Murray's Hodginson comedies to exist. That doesn't mean they all didn't I just hadn't heard of any. Last year, I think, THE PILL POUNDER turned up (the owner of the 16mm print was afeard the the print might "blow up" being projected). Bow was in...
by Tommie Hicks
Sat Sep 21, 2024 9:13 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Need info on "Help Yourself" (1927) NOW WITH PICTURES
Replies: 16
Views: 37102

Re: Need info on "Help Yourself" (1927) NOW WITH PICTURES

Louie, If the short of LIFE OF REILLY is the Hodginson short, not the later feature, there is a chance Clara Bow is in it. If that is the case you will be beloved by the silent film intelligentsia. Congratulations Louie. To seek for years an obscure, lost comedy short, and to finally find it is not ...
by Tommie Hicks
Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Moe Howard in MR. BOLTER’S INFATUATION?
Replies: 5
Views: 12488

Re: Moe Howard in MR. BOLTER’S INFATUATION?

I could never understand why Moe, who had a documented busy and sufficient career, would resume enhance. Bunny hit his stride in 1913 when Moe was 16. A bit old to play juvenile parts, but Moe might have pulled them off with his short stature. Moe also claimed to have appeared in the Honus Wagner sh...