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The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood . . . Do you pronounce that "Jabberwock" or "Jabberwoke"? In any event, we're not playing these BS hair-splitting pronounciation or spelling games over here Birchard. You're trying to incite me to throw y...

. . . this was a thread meant to help plug Grapevine’s great product, not an opportunity for you to split pointless hairs in your grudge against me. Go take your nap. RICHARD M ROBERTS Richard, far be it from me to crimp Jack Hardy's sales. I urge everyone to be the first on their block to pick up ...

Again, haven't done this in awhile, here's the notes for one of the really fun Demille Pictures Corp Films from the late 20's: Screwball Comedy is really a genre’ generated in the 1930’s and 40’s, but like all so-called, after-the-fact film classifications, it finds many antecedents in the previous ...

I have absolutely nothing to add to everyone's detective work here but is that Peggy Pearce (or any of her various monickers) as the gal Chester Conklin flirts with at the opening of BETWEEN SHOWERS (14)? No, it's not Pearce. David Robinson (from Mitry) credits Sadie Lampe as Conklin's girlfriend i...

While it may not be definitive, I did a Lantern search on the media history digital database for the years 1924 to 1930 and also on newspaperarchive.com for all states over the same period of time and could not come up with a single reference to any Malcoln Sebastian (or Sebastion), nor to a Big Bo...

I heartily recommend the recent BIG BOY collection he put out, featuring a number of rare Educational Juvenile Comedies featuring Malcolm Sebastian. He's currently working on a Lupino Lane Collection, which will have a number of rare titles, some from my Collection, and a FUNNY MANNS Collection as ...

No, not the ones hanging up in his closet. The other ones he's been including with his dvd feature releases. Jolly Jack's been sneaking out some rarities recently on his Grapevine label. I caught the Snub Pollard short CALL FOR MR CAVEMAN a couple of months back on his 'Adam's Rib' release. And thi...

Need to find who owns a copy of this 1932 Lowell Sherman sound flick for a preservation project - I know it is out there, but can't find who has one......Oh and Richard I will ship out the short next week. I have one last trip out of town then I am home til summer and can catch up on stuff like tha...

Well, several things are definite about the C.K. Comedies in the Kriterion Schedule, first, they were definitely the also-ran series in their program, not mentioned in the listing of the other companies in the articles and publicity surrounding the formation of Kriterion, then they are barely public...

Pasquale Ventura wrote:Did these have music scores? All of the ones I've seen either have no score or a newly added one.

Nope, no scores on the prints.


RICHARD M ROBERTS