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- Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:55 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Stone Cold Restoration
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11669
Re: Stone Cold Restoration
Here's a link to the article/plea from Richard Bann on the UCLA web site: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/support/another-fine-mess-laurel-hardys-legacy Another Fine Mess: Laurel & Hardy's Legacy By Richard W. Bann In 1914 Hal Roach began his career as an independent producer, specializing in comedy...
- Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:50 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25044
Re: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
I'm pretty certain that the Maid in the mirror gag also plays Lucille Carlisle's maid in The Show ... any ideas what the actress's name is?
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:17 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: A Merry Mafiosi Christmas
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7526
Re: A Merry Mafiosi Christmas
God bless us all ... Everyone!!
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- Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:33 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Bristol Slapstick Festival Schedule Announced
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14365
Bristol Slapstick Festival Schedule Announced
FYI: I received this email from Chris Daniels (see below). The Kevin Brownlow/Unknown Chaplin show looks wonderful and I see that Dave Wyatt is running the recently discovered "When Knights were Cold." ****************************************************************************************...
- Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:46 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Chaplin Time Traveler?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16187
Re: Chaplin Time Traveler?
I saw this last week and have received numereous emails with the link ... My first impression was that George Clarke has only explained why he's named his production company "Yellow Fever!" So, with a nod to Mr. Kerkhoff, I'm X-filing this under "Who gives a rat's ass."
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:28 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: God bless you, Ben Model
- Replies: 9
- Views: 18163
Re: God bless you, Ben Model
Beautiful! That's a truly heart-warming story ... you Ben, are a hero!!
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:35 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Could "Lost Keaton" lead to "Lost Langdon"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21783
Re: Could "Lost Keaton" lead to "Lost Langdon"
Happy Fourth everybody .... From today's NY Times, Dave Kehr's review of Kino's Lost Keaton and Steamboat Bill Jr. (read below or, the link will show a few photos and has more reference links). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/movies/homevideo/04kehr.html *******************************************...
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:15 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: More Roach shorts on TCM 6/9/10 (Wednesday)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6284
More Roach shorts on TCM 6/9/10 (Wednesday)
Hi All, Just saw that they scheduled two shorts this coming Wednesday, June 9th; 2:09pm ET - Mr. Bride 1932 with Charley Chase and Del Henderson 5:33pm ET - Bring 'em Back a Wife 1933 with the Taxi Boys; Ben Blue and Billy Gilbert They've already aired Mr. Bride, but I've never seen this Taxi Boys e...
- Fri May 07, 2010 1:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Keaton's 'Hobby Horse'
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4451
Keaton's 'Hobby Horse'
Caught this article the other day from The Bigger Picture; Visual Archives and The Smithsonian, and found it pretty fascinating:
http://blog.photography.si.edu/2010/05/ ... ithsonian/
http://blog.photography.si.edu/2010/05/ ... ithsonian/
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:45 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Restoring Chaplin at Keystone
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6963
Restoring Chaplin at Keystone
Here's a link to the CNN story from earlier today about the Chaplin/Keystone restoration project in Europe ... Scroll down on the page to check out the video ... http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/29/charlie.chaplin.restoration/index.html?hpt=Sbin I had seen a screener of Mabel at the Wheel a...