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SOMEWHERE IN SOMEWHERE (Hal Roach –Pathe’ released September 20, 1925) Director: James W. Horne. Cast: Charlie Murray, Lucien Littlefield, Noah Young. The short tenure of Hampton Del Ruth as the Hal Roach Studio’s Director-General in 1924-25 brought about a few interesting changes nevertheless, incl...

Fascinating article John, and thanks for answering my question.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

A transfer from 35mm (even if one wishes LOC had bothered to frame and masked it properly) of one of William Cameron Menzies fun single-reel musical shorts produced with Hugo Riesenfeld for Joseph M. Schenck"s Art Cinema Associates (released by United Artists). Fritz Feld is the Apprentice, Jos...

Plus the first day of production on THE FLYING DEUCES when Stan discovers one of the gagmen is Harry Langdon and a bitchslap and hair-pulling fight breaks out between them.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Egad, we made VANITY FAIR today:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20 ... -hollywood


RICHARD M ROBERTS

New trailer for American release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2zdFwg ... e=youtu.be

Opens in New York and Los Angeles Dec 28, possibly in hope of an Oscar consideration.

It won't be perfect, but it sure looks interesting.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Thanks again for the kind words Ed, looks like Amazon actually put it up today.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Like I said, Billy West was just down the street, methinks the more Billy West comedies from the 1920's you see, the more you'll see that alley and street.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

This all makes perfect sense John, since Billy West was shooting the King Bee comedies and many of his later films at studios on Gower off Sunset, and Al Christie's studios were off Sunset at Gower, and Keaton only had to come up north a few blocks from the Keaton studios that this would be a popula...

Today is the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I, what is still probably the war that changed the World and the Twentieth Century more than all other wars, and one started for the strangest and silliest of reasons. To commemorate, here's James Whale's first feature film and the British take ...