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Ed, did you know how that one, albeit regionally limited, Lloyd revival that I'd say did have some success, on German television, came about? Pretty much all I know is that Richard Correll must have been invloved. The Time-Life Lloyd theme song was used, but other than that the versions were origin...

7. The Christies refinanced both Metropolitan and Christie Film Company in September 1930, and promptly saw most of the independent producers who made films there (Harold Lloyd, Harold Hughes/Caddo Company, M.H. Hoffman, Sono-Art, Al Rogell, Brown & Nagel, etc) leave. While researching the hist...

There's a fascinating moment during "mystery guest" Harold Lloyd's 1953 appearance on "What's My Line?" when a blindfolded Dorothy Kilgallen asks Lloyd, "Were you a film comedian...like Laurel & Hardy?" The audience's derisive laughter at this remark -- they of cour...

Just to level out the playing field a bit and prevent Keaton from sounding too saintly, I would say a good portion of that resentment toward Lloyd could also be accounted to good old professional jealousy. Lloyd's box office take routinely blew Keaton's films out of the water - which Keaton never r...

Buster Keaton was very much a gentleman regarding his public opinions of Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, so it may raise a few eyebrows when some readers see his off-the-record comments about these two contemporaries, quoted by Harold Goodwin and Bill Cox, which will appear in the book Bill Cassar...

Don't know why Watz thinks he needs a new photo. This one looks fine. (I didn't know that it snowed on Ben Turpin's funeral........) You're right Gary, that is a splendid photo, snow notwithstanding -- it's just too bad that Buster Keaton is not in it. Thanks to our generous Godfather (who gracious...

REQUESTING PHOTO HELP FOR KEATON BOOK - here is a July 3, 1940 wirephoto of Mack Sennett alumni and friends attending Ben Turpin's funeral. A similar photo was taken with Buster Keaton among the group. I have a barely visible postage stamp-sized copy of the image with Buster. If anyone has the Keato...

Thanks Steve for that information about SCAREM MUCH -- Tarbox's print quality was often hit or miss, wasn't it? Sometimes he had good source material but did a terrible printing job, but then he also had some negatives on positive stock, which produced a harshly contrasted image. His prints of PICKI...

I used to suspect that the "Silent Comedy Classics" DVD series (with those colorful, layout-intensive sleeves) might've derived from Tarbox's collection. But then many titles from other home movie distributors started appearing up on their sets. Years ago someone from JEF Films reported th...

Charles Tarbox was going to sell his 16mm negatives on the Sennett Paramounts to Raymond Rohauer in the late 1970s . But coincidentally Rohauer's "Silent Clowns" series played in L.A. at that time and Tarbox got wind of it. I remember him telling Rohauer, "Mack Sennett's gotten very b...