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by Rob Farr
Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:15 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Lou Costello on "Wagon Train" - March 2
Replies: 4
Views: 9066

Re: Lou Costello on "Wagon Train" - March 2

It's awful. Lou at his most mawkish.
by Rob Farr
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...
by Rob Farr
Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:48 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
Replies: 11
Views: 24943

Re: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site

Virginia's (rather, Henry's) variation on the old mirror gag is... remarkable.
by Rob Farr
Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:20 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
Replies: 8
Views: 21060

Re: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL

Anyone know what Chance Ward looked like?
by Rob Farr
Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:37 pm
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
Replies: 8
Views: 21060

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...
by Rob Farr
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: 15471

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...
by Rob Farr
Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:17 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
Replies: 13
Views: 20681

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?
by Rob Farr
Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:44 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Max Davidson/Female Comedy DVD question
Replies: 13
Views: 20681

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.
by Rob Farr
Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:39 pm
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: Kinos Sherlock Jr/Three Ages BluRay/DVD
Replies: 1
Views: 6391

Re: Kinos Sherlock Jr/Three Ages BluRay/DVD

Hopefully I'll be able to report something after Christmas.
by Rob Farr
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...