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It's interesting that Sherwood actually mentions the effects of the bomb: the loss to his right hand. Yes indeed. It's not the first mention in the press of Harold's hand injury (those reports came soon after the occurrence in 1919) but Sherwood's account appeared when Lloyd was at the height of hi...

"Harold Lloyd himself is not a great comedian - not to be compared, individually, with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, W.C. Fields... He has no genius for pantomimic clowning; his humor, at all times, is reliant upon the surrounding situations. But he has something that all these...

"HARPO COMES HOME Harpo, Marx Brothers silent member, returns from stay in Russia. Asked his opinions, he keeps them all under his hat."

https://youtu.be/K3dgH5YP01I?si=8ud1-2OPw9NYiT4v

SiCom Mafia might be the only site where the poster makes a bigger fuss about Bert Wheeler's late tv appearance over a pre-Star Trek Bill Shatner. Thanks to my brother for sending this episode my way, that Wheeler & Woolsey book I sent him 30 years ago came in handy when he saw this online. Bert...

Here's yet another brief excerpt from the elusive MAX COMES ACROSS, sent to me by a friend who found it from she-doesn't-remember-where, and possibly had it in her possession for several years now. It appears to be a tattered print filmed off television but at this point I'm grateful to see anything...

Not a bad little industrial at that, either. Assistant director Eddie Santa served the same function on a number of late Columbia two-reelers, often with The Three Stooges (he was the A.D. on the 3-D SPOOKS shortly after this).

Courtesy the Eye Institute:
Standard Photoplay two-reeler directed by Ralph Cedar, with Frank Alexander, Fatty Karr, Kewpie Ross, Lois Boyd, and the always fabulous Gale Henry.

https://youtu.be/NGxGkKw4FKM?si=cPIt3wC3LRQmf_mT

Thank you Uli, it's always fun watching these latter-day interviews. My German isn't up to par yet (I doubt it will ever be!), but when the interviewer asked Harold whether he directed his films, did Lloyd reply in the affirmative or did he qualify his answer? Of course Harold's involvement in his p...

A Memorial Tribute to David Wyatt, who passed away last year, was done at the recent SILENT LAUGHTER weekend a the Kennington Bioscope in London, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drEk0pqWUpE RICHARD M ROBERTS A beautiful tribute from each participant to one of our most beloved silent com...

Thank you Richard, good to finally see the last of Larry's Vitagraphs, Smith was right, it resembles numerous Semon shorts of the last few seasons. I was almost disappointed when a satchel bag containing money didn't show up in the first ten minutes- a common plot point in so many post-1920 Semon co...