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by Joe Migliore
Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:24 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
Replies: 118
Views: 184560

Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville

Gary Johnson wrote: I still find it amazing that we have what we do today from the silent era and that there are enough copies floating around among collectors that there is material for Gierucki's crew to actually restore and enhance. It really is astounding how much has been recovered and given a ...
by Joe Migliore
Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:37 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
Replies: 118
Views: 184560

Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville

Louie Despres wrote:
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE IMMIGRANT'S MISSING FRAMES!!!


I love Michael Hayde's joke about how Chaplin shooting 40,000 feet of film clearly indicates it should be a forty-reeler! You'd think that would stop the whining...but they just turn the whining up to eleven.
by Joe Migliore
Wed Aug 06, 2014 5:48 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING TO CLOSE
Replies: 10
Views: 20939

Re: LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING TO CLOSE

Pasquale Ventura wrote: BEARS & BAD MEN, COLLARS & CUFFS, A WEAK-END PARTY have indeed been released on DVD several years ago from Lobster Films in a Region2 PAL box set of 58 Laurel and Hardy solo shorts from France I figured there were probably stray titles available in Europe. How does WI...
by Joe Migliore
Wed Aug 06, 2014 2:54 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING TO CLOSE
Replies: 10
Views: 20939

Re: LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING TO CLOSE

A GUIDE FOR COMPLETISTS I’ve compiled a list of films Looser Than Loose offers, that are currently not available on DVD elsewhere, as far as I can tell. It is for anyone who is obsessed with canon. Stan Laurel – These shorts are not included in the Kino discs: BEARS & BAD MEN (1918) – Stan Laur...
by Joe Migliore
Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:12 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: LIFE WITH BUSTER KEATON: BUSTER IN THE JUNGLE (1951)
Replies: 11
Views: 24760

Re: LIFE WITH BUSTER KEATON: BUSTER IN THE JUNGLE (1951)

Richard M Roberts wrote: It was originally believed that there were only 12-14 episodes, but I now have a list of 18, and to be a full single-season syndicated show in those days, we're talking 39 episodes. I remember you writing a few years ago, if I'm remembering correctly, that a religious organi...
by Joe Migliore
Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:20 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
Replies: 45
Views: 83206

Re: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......

Gary Johnson wrote: So you caught the show live on Sunday, Joe? Alas, no; I will wait for a DVD. If the big finale left a bad taste in anyone's mouth, John Cleese's "Alimony Tour" might be a better option. After a few atypical divorce jokes, it becomes a more personal recollection of the P...
by Joe Migliore
Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:37 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
Replies: 45
Views: 83206

Re: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......

C'mon Gary: No matter how weak their swan song may have been, "Were the Pythons ever funny?" is still a bloody stupid question.
by Joe Migliore
Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:57 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......
Replies: 45
Views: 83206

Re: The Monty Python Backlash has begun......

While this thread is still relatively fresh, I thought I'd post this response John Cleese recently sent a fourteen-year-old fan:

http://imgur.com/KYOl0iR
by Joe Migliore
Thu Jul 10, 2014 8:07 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING TO CLOSE
Replies: 10
Views: 20939

Re: LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING TO CLOSE

Devastating news; I've actually been putting together an order to make my own private Slapsticon this year. I've always been happy with Dave's efforts: the packaging, the period music, and the small-gauge prints that aren't available anywhere else. The Lloyd Hamilton and Hal Roach collections alone ...
by Joe Migliore
Wed Jul 09, 2014 3:32 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: A Harry Langdon Mystery
Replies: 11
Views: 21325

Re: A Harry Langdon Mystery

An exciting discovery; this one could be hiding in plain sight in a can that everyone assumes is an Our Gang short. I hope many prints were struck.