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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17388
Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
They have eliminated the Chaplin brush mustache for an elongated mo. Maybe the publishers were afraid Chaplin's image would be confused with hitler.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13372
Re: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
What I can't understand is why they went to all of this trouble for Snub Pollard. In the pantheon of once famous deceased celebrities, Snub ranks pretty low. You would think they would spend their resources on someone more prominent.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville Comment: THE PILL POUNDER
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10102
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:29 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13372
Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
I found this weird silent comedy entry on youtube. Its a very strange documentary that looks like it was made with A.I. I've been researching Snub for a number of years but I have heard nothing about him being a drug addict. Snub was too damn busy to be a drug addict in my opinion. There are some gr...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 25327
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?
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 25327
Re: Her Friend The Bandit
When I started reading about Chaplin in the late 60's, there were about four lost Chaplin Keystones. All but HFTB have turned up. WH had access to all the Chaplin Keystone negatives in 1918. I believe if Chaplin was in HFTB, WH would have exploited HFTB as it would mean that WH ignoring a short with...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:51 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8299
Re: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy
Not many will be impressed as the video quality leaves much to be desired, so one may want to view it on a small screen. https://youtu.be/9swsunwEQsA Here's one you don't see much. One of my favorites THE AGENT (1922) has great production values. This recording from the last century looks like an im...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:15 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8299
Re: TROUBLE BREWING (1924) Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy
There is a Jaimito version of this film with about three more minutes of content.
Spencer Bell did another picnic bit the same year in THE GOLF BUG.
Spencer Bell did another picnic bit the same year in THE GOLF BUG.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 12:06 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: from DFI: Pat and Patachon - The Danish Duo that Conquered Germany
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11588
Re: from DFI: Pat and Patachon - The Danish Duo that Conquered Germany
I first heard of P&P on Rob Farr's late lamented superb website MUGSHOTS. Oh how I miss that site.
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:52 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Does Chaplin's comedy still work?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5386
Does Chaplin's comedy still work?
Here are some fellows a half a world away who have not known Chaplin. They are shown one of his best shorts and I found their observations fascinating. You may not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UlMUIAH7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UlMUIAH7E