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Speaking with Sam Gill this week, Sam told me that he had finally tracked down what had happened to an Author whose work most likely influenced most of us here, Kalton C. Lahue, who wrote what is still two of the most important books on Silent Comedy, WORLD OF LAUGHTER, and CLOWN PRINCES AND COURT J...

Here's something that you don't see anywhere on television anymore, a program featuring people who actually know about something (in this case art and archaeology) examining artifacts and going through the process of figuring out what they are. We the viewers may actually learn something about art a...

1. You are not actually entitled to see any of this stuff. 2. You are damn lucky to be seeing so much that you are seeing and for so little. 3. Whining about imperfections in 80-100 year old films that may barely survive at all or in less then perfect condition only shows your ignorance and ingrati...

Rob Farr wrote:What were Laugh-a-Bits?

Italian Television version of a "Comedy Capers" show, there are a few on Youtube


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... bits&sm=12


And they seem to have a number of rare clips.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

It's BLUE SUNDAY (1921) allright, and the music is "Keystone Kapers" by Spike Jones, which hearing always takes me back to fond memories of the Disneyland Old Movie Theater on Main Street, where it played endlessly to never-ending loops of a half-dozen silent movies.



RICHARD M ROBERTS

Well, a look-see of the weekends nonsense on Nitratevile shows several unbelievable whiners, one in need of medication is just Shocked!!!!!! Shocked mind you!!!!!!, that 20th Century-Fox will allow only 16mm prints of their films to exist and how dare they not spend every possible penny to find furt...

No one else here is allowed to give an opinion at half past anytime...... (Go check your email) Oh baloney, you can disagree and hail SNL to the high heavens if you wish, I'm just not going to join in with you, unless you can convince me otherwise. I said SNL had its moments, but SCTV had a lot mor...

As if I thought you would ever change your position?? I'm merely expressing my likes......or is is my dislikes....I forget. Is this where I just 'watch my mouth??' If that's your idea of a good time, or we can just agree to disagree, or argue it a bunch more. Or somebody else can give an opinion. R...

Humor-wise, SCTV's strength were parody and satire. SNL's was anti-establishment. Even though both shows dug into the same talent pool of Second City, SNL had just as many National Lampoon alums on their staff, which played into the post-Watergate "fuck you" attitude that permeated the co...

Here's the first reel (all that survives) of the three-reel Vitagraph adaptation of Dickens classic starring John Bunny, which celebrates it's 101st Birthday in two days (released February 28, 1913):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Fl8ZJS8f8



RICHARD M ROBERTS