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by Frank Flood
Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:05 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Little Jerry, Sliding Billy Watson and Ed Lee Wrothe
Replies: 2
Views: 6311

Re: Little Jerry, Sliding Billy Watson and Ed Lee Wrothe

Didn't Ed Lee Wrothe's grandson David front for Van Halen many years later?
by Frank Flood
Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:23 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Marcel Perez
Replies: 4
Views: 9637

Re: Marcel Perez

Good news, Steve. We'll be looking forward to it.

Frank
by Frank Flood
Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:25 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: RKO Two-Reelers
Replies: 28
Views: 55603

Re: RKO Two-Reelers

Louie Despres wrote:Frank,
Ralph asked me to take some photos of the screen from last night's showing of the "Halfway to Hollywood" short:


Thanks Ralph and Louie. I find these Columbia titles very cool. Simple minds, simple pleasures, I guess.
by Frank Flood
Mon May 21, 2012 4:44 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Rare silent comedy shorts found
Replies: 10
Views: 19125

Re: Rare silent comedy shorts found

I do not know release dates for these titles, but NO VACANCIES was copyrighted on 12/27/21 and THE JANITOR'S WIFE on 4/13/22, so that gives a feeling for the timeframe. It is certainly possible that Eddie Barry also appeared in non-Neely Edwards Speed Comedies. Barry was also appearing in Broadway C...
by Frank Flood
Mon May 21, 2012 2:27 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Rare silent comedy shorts found
Replies: 10
Views: 19125

Re: Rare silent comedy shorts found

Ralph – The Jack Duffy title sounds like one of the Speed Comedies released by Arrow in 1921-22. This unit, headed by Reggie Morris, started making comedies for Special Pictures Corporation. When Special fell apart, the unit (including performers Neely Edwards, Charlotte Merriam, Margaret Cullington...
by Frank Flood
Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:28 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: John Wayne NOT in CAREFUL PLEASE with Lloyd Hamilton
Replies: 21
Views: 44304

Re: John Wayne NOT in CAREFUL PLEASE with Lloyd Hamilton

My favorite part of all of this is that the dates just don't work. CAREFUL PLEASE was produced too early to match up with the rest of what is known about Wayne's early career. I agree that the pictures don't look like him, but then again there can always be pictures that do not look like who they ar...
by Frank Flood
Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:37 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: PURE AND SIMPLE (Fazenda) - survival status & availability?
Replies: 11
Views: 23455

Re: PURE AND SIMPLE (Fazenda) - survival status & availability?

The cue sheet? Holy mackerel! All I can add is that production started on this short July 5, 1930, at the Darmour Studio, 5823 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, California.

Where does one find these cue sheets? Was it part of the Lee Zahler collection at (I think) UCLA?

Frank
by Frank Flood
Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:58 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Vim / Jaxon Comedies
Replies: 11
Views: 18616

Re: Vim / Jaxon Comedies

Based on pictures I think I recall seeing in the past, the "Pokes and Jabbs - THEATER" on the suitcase that Burns is holding might not mean that they are at the Pokes & Jabbs Theater, but rather that the suitcase belongs to Pokes & Jabbs, and the railroad on which they have been tr...
by Frank Flood
Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:35 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND
Replies: 30
Views: 56984

Re: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND

Richard M Roberts wrote:Now, were the Educational Exchanges closed, or sold off?


RICHARD M ROBERTS


I think I have read that they were closed, and Educational's exchange employees (at least some of them) moved over to the Fox exchanges to handle sales of short subjects.
by Frank Flood
Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:50 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND
Replies: 30
Views: 56984

Re: Question regarding THE STAGE HAND

As noted above, Educational bought the old Lesser studios (7250 Santa Monica) in the mid-1920's. The Metropolitan Studios at 1040 N. Las Palmas had been built / expanded / controlled by Al and Charles Christie. It was converted to sound production, and the Christies moved their base of operations to...