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This started on the silent movie blogs and last night I saw it on the Yahoo News page. Skepticism abounds, but there are lots of photos and films of time travelers. Check out this modern day hipster caught on a trip back to 1940: http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-ph...

As I recall, Jimmie Adams did some musical shorts with a quartet in this series as well. The Ranch Boys was it? Something like the group he sings with in the Charley Chase shorts like HIGH C'S and ROUGH SEAS.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Some more thoughts as we look further at CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE: One missed opportunity regarding the recreation of RECREATION on the Chaplin Keystone set. The restoration here is made up in part of the standard poor quality 16mm blowup from standard 8mm that used to be available from Film Preservation...

Haha..... This is so funny, I mean I'll give him props for Norma Talmadge, but that's about it... Once at UCLA I had to transfer Lucky Boy (1928) for a researcher and besides thinking it was an exact duplicate for Jazz Singer, I thought the title said it all....He was a Lucky Boy.......In a weird p...

Just looked at the transfer of TILLIE, way too slow, you can definitely see the motion frames blur whenever anyone moves fast. If this is natural speed to David Shepard, he definitely needs some uppers. Has anyone noticed that on the cover of the set, Chaplin looks like he's mouthing the word "...

Just to update an old post, I recently acquired a print of MATCH PLAY, the 1930 Mack Sennett Educational Comedy with Andy Clyde, Bud Jamison, Marjorie Beebe, and Golf pros Walter Hagen and Leo Diegel. It’s a nice old original, unfortunately missing the opening titles, but starting right at the intro...

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. Ou...

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 Jame...

OK gang--anybody have any inside info on what's up with this? http://www.amazon.com/March-Wooden-Soldiers-Blu-ray-Laurel/dp/B003XSTS4K/ref=sr_1_15?s=STORE&ie=UTF8&qid=1285713543&sr=1-15 Spectacularly restored? Every copy I've ever seen has been a fuzzy mess. Has something changed? Old n...

Has this ever been released on video? I'm putting together my 9.5 screening for NJ and I ran this Lloyd Hamilton short that Charley Chase has a clear cameo in that I think will be great but I want to make sure it is not something that is common... Grapevine put it out years ago, but thats no reason...