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- Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: More Ragtime!
- Replies: 1
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More Ragtime!
Since we have Max Morath up there, here's two more good documentaries on Ragtime: First, a PROJECT 20 Doc from 1960 hosted by Hoagy Carmichael called THOSE RAGTIME YEARS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hMNAyErh4A&t=1847s and a 1977 CBC Doc called THEY ALL PLAYED RAGTIME, based on the book of t...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE (1992) Max Morath
- Replies: 2
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LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE (1992) Max Morath
One of the perhaps silver linings when a famous person passes is it tends to coax out some of their work from oblivion. Case in point with Max Morath, who passed away last year and his passing brought to light his early NET show THE RAGTIME ERA (1962). Now here's LIVING A RAGTIME LIFE, a filming of ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:40 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3973
Nitrateville: Two complimentary Threads
Ya know, over at that sorry little site right now are two threads that are mutually complimentary, the former is "When Death Appears Wonderful" and the latter is the announcement of the new seven-hour restoration of NAPOLEON. Yep, at the end of viewing a seven-hour version of NAPOLEON, dea...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8306
Re: Her Friend The Bandit
It's so cute that Charlie spells her name as "Mable." Oddly enough, he was not the only one, I've seen Normand's first name spelled that way in a number of reviews and even some of the Mutual press material for the Keystones. Odd because I've never known or known of anyone named Mabel who...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8306
Re: Her Friend The Bandit
I’ve always thought one of the most interesting pieces of evidence that Chaplin may not be in HER FRIEND THE BANDIT is the fact that he does not include the title in his early handwritten 1914 filmography. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53537094479_4e11319142_b.jpg Now admittedly, he does miss ...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:13 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: HOP OFF (1928) (excerpt) Charley Bowers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4382
HOP OFF (1928) (excerpt) Charley Bowers
Here's three minutes of a Charlie Bowers Educational Comedy from 1928:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPRRgpsdr0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPRRgpsdr0
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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Her Friend The Bandit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8306
Re: Her Friend The Bandit
Thank you Thierry - that's exactly the information I was seeking! Richard We’re glad you’re happy Richard, but I hate to tell you, with all due respect to Thierry, it’s still nothing but a guess, an educated guess perhaps, but still a guess nevertheless. Unless Thierry was physically present at the...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:37 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: SMART WORK (1931) Billy Dooley
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4256
SMART WORK (1931) Billy Dooley
This Roscoe Arbuckle-Directed Educational Cameo Comedy may have been Billy Dooley's first talkie (he had gone back to Vaudeville when Christie let him and his other silent comedians go in 1929). Released December 27, 1931 and featuring Billy with Addie McPhail (Mrs. Arbuckle): https://www.youtube.co...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: A STUDIO STAMPEDE (1917) Ben Turpin
- Replies: 0
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A STUDIO STAMPEDE (1917) Ben Turpin
Here's most of Reel Two of this Vogue Comedy released by Mutual March 24, 1917, directed by Robin Williamson and featuring Ben Turpin with Gypsy Abbott, Edward J. Laurie, and Arthur Currier and perhaps a look at the lot where the Vogue Comedies were filmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cajS65bWu_...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2630
Re: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
It has always boggled my mind just how clueless Mack Sennett was about Talkies. Here was the man who had made dizzyingly fast paced silent comedies who didn't seem to have ever figured out sound comedies needed pacing as well, and he didn't even seem to figure it out after several years! Didn't he w...