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Yes, over at the even-more-boring-than-usual Nitwitvile we were having a good laugh about the big deal being made there about a release of THE WEDDING MARCH with it's original Movietone track, I've had a nice 16mm print of that with score and Technicolor sequences for decades, and it was far from a ...

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). Well, you noticed that this was a Screen Gems Production, this was shot...

A bunch of good actors do a nice little uplifting-yet-nourish film about life, faith and the American Way (the old version) in a film produced by the American Petroleum Institute. Features Regis Toomey, Daryl Hickman, Rhys Williams, James Bell, Elisabeth Risdon, Ted De Corsia, and Frank Darien in an...

Vitagraph Drama form 1910, directed by Lawrence Trimble and featuring Florence turner and William Shea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDDalAbFdnw&t=462s

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Broadcast on ABC February 4, 1962, an hour of Stan Freberg and an interesting cast including Sterling Holloway, June Foray, Peter Leeds, Mike Mazurki, Howard Macnear, Artie Johnson and the guy playing the messenger looks a little familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUiJztrz3_g RICHARD M ROBERTS

Heading into the Christmas Season, here is a funny little record Albert Brooks made in 1973 to send his own Christmas message out to you, so we send it out as our Christmas message to you too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2IhS3yQ25w

Happy Holidays!

RICHARD M ROBERTS

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

Okay, that's impressive, thanks Tommie.

BTW, that's not Spencer Bell in LIGHTNING LOVE, that's Curtis McHenry in both that and TROUBLE BREWING.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

[quote="Tommie Hicks"]There is a Jaimito version of this film with about three more minutes of content.

{/quote]

Well, goody fot it. Give us a link and we'll be impressed. Otherwise, we're happy to see what we have.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

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 c...