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- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 879
Re: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
Points well taken, Richard. At some stage in my collecting life, I realized there's a saturation level where you just say, that's it. I just turned 65, and my feeling is, I'll concentrate on purchasing stuff I don't already own. I bought the Milestone POTO after holding out for many years; I didn't ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE (1992) Max Morath
- Replies: 2
- Views: 488
Re: LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE (1992) Max Morath
You know you've made it when you get a Hirschfeld caricature! Good show, Richard.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 879
Re: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
The only saving grace is, if you run it at sound speed, it should only be around 5:25. Still not, to coin an old phrase, the most effective use of my time. I could watch a good triple feature (to say the least) during that time. But, to each his own. Not to get off on a tangent, but someone's runnin...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: More Ragtime!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 372
Re: More Ragtime!
I have an old ragtime album by Dick Wellstood, playing Scott Joplin. In the liner notes for THE RAGTIME DANCE, he tells an anecdote about his being the copyist for THE RAGTIME YEARS. He apologized to the pianist who had to work from his illegible score (which was unreadable due to time constraints).
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 750
Re: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
Richard, that's one of the most concise, and certainly one of the funniest reviews I've ever read. It ranks right up there with the critic who described a 121-minute WWII epic as two hours too long.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3841
Re: Her Friend The Bandit
There was a French book on Chaplin that contained a frame grab of Mabel Normand at a telephone operator's console with Chaplin in mufti contorting himself. I believe Harry Booker was reacting in the shot (I'm doing this from memory). Has any identified the film this is from? _________ For what this...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2013
Re: Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood
It's interesting that Sherwood actually mentions the effects of the bomb: the loss to his right hand.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Buster Keaton's San Francisco footsteps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2200
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: THE DEFENDERS (1962) Bert Wheeler, William Shatner guest stars
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3794
Re: THE DEFENDERS (1962) Bert Wheeler, William Shatner guest stars
As I'm sure everyone knows, that Shatner fella played the Robert Reed role in what might be considered the pilot, THE DEFENDER, with Ralph Bellamy, if my memory serves correctly.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Happy New Year 2024!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3810
Happy New Year 2024!
Happy New Year fellow Mafiosi! May the coming year bring you joy, peace, and plenty of goodies. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to burn some 1928 PD material to DVD to sell at my local flea market (after Covid, is that even a thing anymore?) Or as my dear Uncle Jack might have said to me, "Don'...