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I may be gullible, but that couldn't possibly be William S. Paley could it?

I don't know any particulars about ClassicFlix, but I would imagine that a business of renting classic movies on DVD by mail to a dwindling number of subscribers would have to be a very hard model to sustain. The lag you experienced was probably due to their having to use Media Mail to keep overhead...

Contrats to all for a job well done. Let's celebrate with a swig o' milk... from a dirty glass!

Brand: Flicker Alley Format: Blu-ray (NTSC) Region: All: A,B,C Director: Charley Bowers Featuring: Charley Bowers Composers: Donald Sosin and Neil Brand on select titles Year:1918-1941 Language:French (English Subtitles) Length:274 mins. UPC: 6-17311-68649-8 PRE-ORDER ONLY: RELEASE DATE - JUNE 25, 2...

The fact that McBride had to self-publish this through Vervante, suggests the mainstream publishing/academic press wagons are still circled.

Thanks. Will check and confirm.

This little mini-doc on the French Arte website is about the use of pastry in silent comedy. There are two clips of a Lloyd Hamilton silent that are new to me. The first is the opening clip and the second, with the same oversized American flags, is in the middle. The fact that these clips are not ID...

I first read of the on-set fight in James Robert Parish's The Funsters , published in 1979, a (slightly) more reputable source than the National Enquirer, tho he might have just been recounting that paper's story. In Parish's retelling of the technician's account, they actually came to blows. I'm su...

Here is a set from Alpha Video that has some titles not on the Grapevine sets. Alpha’s quality peaks out at “just OK”, but at least you’re only out $6.

Beware of Silent Hall of Fame because they offer overpriced DVD’s that were bootlegged from other other DVD’s or YouTube. There is no comprehensive set derived from the best quality materials, but I would try Grapevine Video who released two sets of his shorts and two of his features. Kino Lorber’s ...