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- Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:15 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Lou Costello on "Wagon Train" - March 2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9064
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:51 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: 1927: The Beginning of the End?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8536
Re: 1927: The Beginning of the End?
Well, if I were an exhibitor with a family to feed, and I had to rent Gold Rush for $500 only to see it earn $475, I'd call it a flop. But if I rented Behind the Front for $100 and it earned $200, I'd call it a hit. But as a savvy businessman, I'd still rent the loss leaders if only to prevent my au...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:48 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24940
Re: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
Virginia's (rather, Henry's) variation on the old mirror gag is... remarkable.
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:20 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21058
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:37 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21058
Re: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
I wonder if this was a gag still from the period when Ham was actually laid up in the hospital after the accident that shattered his leg. It looks like he could have been costumed and made up from the waist up and photographed while being visited by his cast and crew members. Could one of the non-ac...
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:02 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy HAVE ARRIVED
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15468
Re: Agee's Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy HAVE ARRIVED
Look at "They Go Boom". The original disc from ten years ago had the dialogue out of sync. If it's still out of sync, that's evidence that Michael/Lou simply burned copies from and repackaged his old discs. Which isn't to say you got ripped off. Used copies of the original pressings of Los...
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:17 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20675
Re: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
This set is well worth getting especially since TCM has scheduled only five Todd/Pitts/Kelly shorts in their Roach marathon next month. Does anyone know if this will be encoded as region-free?
- Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20675
Re: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
I saw Going Ga-Ga at a MoMA screening years ago and it is so fragmentary as to be incomprehensible. What survives is less than a reel of scraps.
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:39 pm
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Kinos Sherlock Jr/Three Ages BluRay/DVD
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6390
Re: Kinos Sherlock Jr/Three Ages BluRay/DVD
Hopefully I'll be able to report something after Christmas.
- Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:02 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: So You Wish You Were a Silent Film Fan in 1958
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11785
Re: So You Wish You Were a Silent Film Fan in 1958
And yet... No doubt many casual readers of this forum are saying to themselves, "Wait a minute! Aren't you the same guys who just about plotzed over the Keystone set?" The difference is that Everson always strived to show the best available surviving material, no matter how "groggy&qu...