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I don't believe Joe Franklin passed on...he used to show some of the Paramount Christies (that's how I saw POST MORTEMS on his "Memory Lane" TV show in the 1960s). Joe had a huge collection of shorts that he picked up for peanuts from the Select Film Library: Hal Roach Pathes like DON KEY,...

Has anybody identified the Harold Lloyd one reeler (excerpted anonymously IIRC in Brownlow's THE THIRD GENIUS) where Harold and Gaylord do their version? (I don't mean the bit Harold & Gaylord do together in HIS ROYAL SLYNESS, which resembles Chaplin's business in THE FLOORWALKER.)

A number of other L&H films, and a few selected Max Davidson comedies from Edition Filmmuseum's superb DVD release, will also screen in late December / early January. Uli A very BIG Thank You, Uli, for sharing your 35mm nitrate material on Max Davidson for that magnificent Filmmuseum release......

It sounds as though the ever-popular Mirror Routine was being beaten to death during the mid-1940's: in 1944 Bob Hope & Victor McLaglan do their version in THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE, in '45 it's Lou Costello & Joe Sawyer in NAUGHTY NINETIES, and then in '46 it's this Errol Flynn picture! I...

May you get toys as cool as the Edgar Kennedy Action Figure my son Dennis got from St. Nick - Merry Christmas to all the consigliere!

Every time I watch HAUNTED SPOOKS and see Dee Lampton as the butler slam into the sliding doors, I can't help but wonder if perhaps that event didn't trigger the appendicitis attack, or whatever internal injury, that killed him in September 1919.

I once spoke with Rohauer about the different versions of SHERLOCK JUNIOR that I'd seen over the years - which shots were missing from one version, which titles were included that I hadn't seen before, etcetera. He laughed and said, "I did that to confuse the people who dupe my films to sell th...

Thank you, Paul, this is terrific news! Can't wait to get these...whatever you issue will be fantastic, I'm sure. I once spoke with a fellow who worked for Paul Killiam back in the 1970s telling me that Killiam had a storage room full of trims from films he had edited for his various series. The emp...

[color=#BF0000][b]CAUTION: The following photo is of questionable taste and contains nudity (however mock) and may possibly offend. It fact, it is brilliantly tasteless no matter how one looks at it. Herewith is a photo of Robert Woolsey and friend . http://Hawkshaww.fileave.com/SoThisIsBob.jpg If ...