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Today over at Nitwitvile, Bob Lipton wrote: "Hal Roach's silent shorts distributed by MGM are hard to find because they were never released to either the home market like his earlier movies, distributed by Pathe, but Crazy House (1928) turned up in a nicely tinted copy derived from the French r...

I wouldn't read or wonder anything about Chaplin's 'artistic" sensibilities in the assembly or plotline of THE PROFESSOR, this is Chaplin simply trying to get out of a contract, doing what other more unscrupulous distributors had been doing with his films for years, cutting and re-cutting them ...

And one more good one that discusses his work:

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/02 ... 1934-2018/


RICHARD M ROBERTS

This is somewhat interesting, though it wouldn't have been any Chaplin classic:

https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/306


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Wow, gone in sixty seconds........


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Here's the "bargain of the century" for anyone looking for a copy of my book: https://www.bookfinder.com/book/Smileage_Guaranteed,_Past_Humor_Present_Laughter,_Musings_on_the_Comedy_Film/9780989301909/ Two copies in Ireland? Or is it the same copy being sold in two different places? In any...

Thanks for the info, John.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Nice little Tiffany programmer directed by Louis Gasnier and featuring the lovely Marceline Day in one of her early feature-film appearances. Released October 15, 1926, also featuring Bert Lytell, Eileen Percy, Crawford Kent, Otto Lederer, and Ward Crane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_U-wn3zORI ...

Are we sure that isn't Thelma Daniels, who became the busy Stern Bros leading lady soon after that, they do look similar, particularly in hair style.

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A test record made for Brunswick Records March 7, 1931:

http://picosong.com/w9Vey/

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