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- Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:53 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: BBC Radio Documentary on Chaplin Archive
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5459
BBC Radio Documentary on Chaplin Archive
...to air Monday Feb. 21 and 28 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yyb3j Matthew Sweet travels to Switzerland to explore the vast archive of Chaplin's unfinished scripts, letters and press cuttings that document the extraordinary record of his genius. Episode 1 of 2: Matthew Sweet meets Michael Chap...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:17 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Lou Costello on "Wagon Train" - March 2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9109
Re: Lou Costello on "Wagon Train" - March 2
I've never seen Dance with Me Henry, but Lou certainly pushes the limits of nausea in 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock. Jerry Lewis in The Jazz Singer? You mean Danny Thomas? Neil Diamond? Or is Lewis's Jazz Singer the lost masterpiece he made after The Day the Clown Cried?
- Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:15 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Lou Costello on "Wagon Train" - March 2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9109
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:51 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: 1927: The Beginning of the End?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8575
Re: 1927: The Beginning of the End?
Well, if I were an exhibitor with a family to feed, and I had to rent Gold Rush for $500 only to see it earn $475, I'd call it a flop. But if I rented Behind the Front for $100 and it earned $200, I'd call it a hit. But as a savvy businessman, I'd still rent the loss leaders if only to prevent my au...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:48 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25066
Re: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
Virginia's (rather, Henry's) variation on the old mirror gag is... remarkable.
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:20 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21171
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:37 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21171
Re: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
I wonder if this was a gag still from the period when Ham was actually laid up in the hospital after the accident that shattered his leg. It looks like he could have been costumed and made up from the waist up and photographed while being visited by his cast and crew members. Could one of the non-ac...
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:02 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy HAVE ARRIVED
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15555
Re: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy HAVE ARRIVED
Look at "They Go Boom". The original disc from ten years ago had the dialogue out of sync. If it's still out of sync, that's evidence that Michael/Lou simply burned copies from and repackaged his old discs. Which isn't to say you got ripped off. Used copies of the original pressings of Los...
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:17 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20849
Re: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
This set is well worth getting especially since TCM has scheduled only five Todd/Pitts/Kelly shorts in their Roach marathon next month. Does anyone know if this will be encoded as region-free?
- Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20849
Re: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
I saw Going Ga-Ga at a MoMA screening years ago and it is so fragmentary as to be incomprehensible. What survives is less than a reel of scraps.