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by Rob Farr
Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: First review I've seen of "Chaplin at Keystone"
Replies: 26
Views: 49891

Re: First review I've seen of "Chaplin at Keystone"

Sounds like there might be a market for Ben Model Alt Scores timed for 1.5x speed. Don't forget we need a score for 1.5x Tillie too!
by Rob Farr
Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:22 pm
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: First review I've seen of "Chaplin at Keystone"
Replies: 26
Views: 49891

Re: First review I've seen of "Chaplin at Keystone"

Cue the ominous chords. Look at the running times to the right of the bitrate charts. The Knockout clocks in at half an hour, as does Dough and Dynamite. 85 minutes for Tillie, but that was expected since the Alloy score was timed for that speed. Most of the one-reelers come in at 12-15 minutes. Our...
by Rob Farr
Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:00 am
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: Hal Roach galore on TCM in January
Replies: 12
Views: 25745

Re: Hal Roach galore on TCM in January

I'm tearing up. Just in time for my birthday.
by Rob Farr
Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:55 pm
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: Make Me a Star
Replies: 3
Views: 8741

Re: Make Me a Star

Movie Crazy came out 12 weeks after Make Me a Star. Maybe MMAS had an impact on Lloyd's box office, maybe it didn't. Hard to say when most movies stayed in the neighborhood houses for half-a-week then vanished forever.
by Rob Farr
Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:35 am
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: Make Me a Star
Replies: 3
Views: 8741

Make Me a Star

I hope most of you DV-R'ed or TIVO'ed this 1932 remake of Merton of the Movies which ran on TCM at 4:30am EDT yesterday. It's a family reunion of many of our favorite characters: Ben Turpin, Snub Pollard, Victor Potel, Billy Rhodes, Bobby Vernon and Zasu Pitts. Turpin gets fourth billing essentially...
by Rob Farr
Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:39 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: RIP Sir Norman Wisdom
Replies: 0
Views: 4647

RIP Sir Norman Wisdom

Aged 95 years! A comedy life well-lived. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6941HA20101005
by Rob Farr
Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:00 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: A Faux Bud?
Replies: 2
Views: 5419

A Faux Bud?

Founding Nitratevillian Mike Gebert recently posted his review of the most recent Cinesation and dropped this little bombshell: "It was preceded by Mystery at the Old Mill (**), a freshly restored, modestly amusing 1916 Lloyd Hamilton comedy about mad doctors (billed as a Ham and Bud, but James...
by Rob Farr
Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:18 pm
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy Finally Released
Replies: 23
Views: 44313

Re: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy Finally Released

So based on Michael's email are you re-submitting your order?
by Rob Farr
Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:22 pm
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: CAMERA Comedy Clippings, Sept. 29, 1923
Replies: 34
Views: 65884

Re: CAMERA Comedy Clippings, Sept. 29, 1923

The issue of Sept. 29, 1923 is now uploaded in toto to the Slapsticon/Mugshots website: http://www.slapsticon.org/mugshots/CameraSep2923
by Rob Farr
Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:29 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: El Brendel Died Too Soon
Replies: 7
Views: 14297

Re: El Brendel Died Too Soon

Louie, when you started down this road, you had to know it would be a lonely one.