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- Tue Oct 27, 2015 6:21 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Silent Laughter Event
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8785
Re: Silent Laughter Event
Brilliant montage, Dave! I wish I could have been there. I don't suppose there's any audio of David Wyatt and Kevin Brownlow discussing the Keaton documentary.
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:08 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: AN ENEMY OF SOAP (1918) - Toto
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8638
Re: AN ENEMY OF SOAP (1918) - Toto
They should replace that guy with Chaplin's understudy.
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: The Charley Chase Scrapbook published today
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10936
Re: The Charley Chase Scrapbook published today
Thanks for posting the link, Ed. (My wife keeps asking me what I want for Christmas.)
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:53 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Greenbriar Comedy Team Discussions
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47432
Re: Greenbriar Comedy Team Discussions
As a child, I had regular exposure to Abbott & Costello; WPIX had the whole Universal package, and would run one every Sunday morning. I loved them all, but as I discovered more classic comedies (Stan & Babe, Bill Fields, and The Marx Bros.), my opinion of Lou Costello's character waned. Bud...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:20 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Dickie Moore RIP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6324
Re: Dickie Moore RIP
Even though he only appeared in eight of the Our Gang shorts, they made an impression. One of my earliest memories of the series is Stymie wrenching Dickie's stiff neck into the correct position in FREE WHEELING, fixing it in the process. I also prefer Moore's OLIVER TWIST (1933) to later versions, ...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 2:44 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Another Dump, Another Cans of Reels Discovery
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13635
Re: Another Dump, Another Cans of Reels Discovery
Gary Johnson wrote: Was no one looking back in the Seventies? Or was no one announcing their discoveries? Certainly nobody was announcing their discoveries on the internet. Don't forget how long it took such information to disseminate to the collector who was not actively involved in film preservati...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:30 pm
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Bobby Vernonburns
- Replies: 3
- Views: 36089
Re: Bobby Vernonburns
The one I've just watched is RENO OR BUST, but re-titled "Away We Go" on a DVD called OLD TIME COMEDY CLASSICS VOLUME 6 from Tele Vista. Seeing the name "Bob Burns" on the new title card reminded me that I had heard the narrator use it on SWEETIES, the last short included on Grap...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:43 am
- Forum: SCM 101
- Topic: Bobby Vernonburns
- Replies: 3
- Views: 36089
Bobby Vernonburns
I've seen two Bobby Vernon shorts in which he is billed as "Bobby Burns"; Was this the work of a television syndicator?
- Tue Jun 16, 2015 11:51 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Hallroom Boys Book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9381
Re: Hallroom Boys Book
This is welcome news! My breath is already bated. (Usually it's only horrific.)
- Tue May 12, 2015 6:20 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: MOVIELAND (1926) - Lupino Lane
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6695
Re: MOVIELAND (1926) - Lupino Lane
Good job putting it all together, Dave. Thank you for posting it!