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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Twelfth Night Directed by 17-Year-Old Orson Welles?
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Re: Twelfth Night Directed by 17-Year-Old Orson Welles?
This is footage from Orson Welles production of TWELFTH NIGHT done at the Todd School in 1933. Welles had just returned from acting at the Gate Theater and recorded the opening narration at the time (he was only 17 years old). Kodachrome indeed did not come along until 1935, but this was shot in Kod...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:29 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: A ROMAN SCANDAL (1919) Colleen Moore, Earl Rodney
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A ROMAN SCANDAL (1919) Colleen Moore, Earl Rodney
One of the two short comedies Colleen Moore made for Al Christie before she starred in his feature SO LONG LETTY (1920). Al Christie directed and Colleen appears with Earl Rodney, Eddie Barry, Billy Bletcher, Helen Darling, Jack Henderson, Gino Corrado and Ward Caufield. It was released by the Chris...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
- Replies: 7
- Views: 977
Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
Or George Carlin:
"Look how stupid the average man is, and realize half of them are stupider than that!"
My favorite Fred Allen line (referring to radio and television)was:
"They call it a medium because nothing is well done in it."
RICHARD M ROBERTS
"Look how stupid the average man is, and realize half of them are stupider than that!"
My favorite Fred Allen line (referring to radio and television)was:
"They call it a medium because nothing is well done in it."
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
- Replies: 7
- Views: 977
Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
I have no need for artificial intelligence, what I keep hoping for is Genuine Intelligence in Humanity, but I keep getting disappointed.
These days, people's cell phones are smarter than they are.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
These days, people's cell phones are smarter than they are.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:17 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
- Replies: 7
- Views: 977
Re: Chaplin In The Eye of the Beholder
Yep, bad AI is rampant.
I'm waiting to see the Charlie Chaplin bio that has a picture of Billy West on the cover.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
I'm waiting to see the Charlie Chaplin bio that has a picture of Billy West on the cover.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: THE SLEEPING PORCH (1929) Raymond Griffith
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1050
THE SLEEPING PORCH (1929) Raymond Griffith
Here's one of Raymond Griffith's two talkie comedies he made for Al Christie in 1929. Ray's damaged vocal chords in obvious evidence here as he plays a man with a cold. The 16mm prints that got out (of which this one has a poor transfer with Ralph Celentanos initials plastered annoyingly over the up...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: THE BALIFFS (1932) Flanagan and Allen
- Replies: 0
- Views: 713
THE BALIFFS (1932) Flanagan and Allen
Fred Karno wrote the script for this short, which was Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen's film debut. Watch for Fred walking in front of them in the opening scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0kcv22EkrU
"Meredith, we're in!"
RICHARD M ROBERTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0kcv22EkrU
"Meredith, we're in!"
RICHARD M ROBERTS
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:23 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1062
Re: Snub Pollard A Drug Addict?!
Yeah, this is bullshit. Snub was the Secretary of the Screen Extras Guild through much of the 1950's, after being active in it for more than a decade before that, one of the reasons why he was one of the busiest bit players around. And I don't know what "wife" they are referring to, he was...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:30 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: IDLE ROOMERS (1931) Molino Brothers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 864
IDLE ROOMERS (1931) Molino Brothers
Another Educational Cameo Comedy missing a minute or so from it's LOC print (I've got a complete one we showed at Slapsticon in 2013). Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle and released November 29, 1931, it features the Molino Brothers (Frank and Alfred), Fern Emmett (oddly billed as the star in the redone A...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: THE SOCK EXCHANGE(1928) Bobby Vernon, Nancy Dover
- Replies: 0
- Views: 802
THE SOCK EXCHANGE(1928) Bobby Vernon, Nancy Dover
Good Al Christie-Paramount comedy released September 22, 1928, directed by Harold Beaudine and featuring Bobby Vernon, nancy Dover in her first film, Joseph Belmont, Eddie Baker, Bill Blaisdell and Eddie Barry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmf-X6zOAsk
RICHARD M ROBERTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmf-X6zOAsk
RICHARD M ROBERTS