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Rob King wrote: I wonder what was the first real comedy to satirize talking pictures? Sennett’s A Hollywood Star (1929) (off the top of my head)?

Tho it's not a comedy, my vote goes to A Cottage on Dartmour (1929) tho I don't know whether the Sennett short was released first.

Wow. That's really...something...or other...

I think this is also the clifftop that Mark Jones' car rocks atop in Family Life.

Until there is some cooberation in Motion Picture New or Moving Picture News or some other source, we have to assume that if Arbuckle did express some early interest, he never followed up on it. Who knows? Maybe the Comique contract had a clause giving Paramount the right of first refusal if Arbuckl...

I just stumbled upon this historical nugget, which may be old news to the Arbucklistas around here: "...while the producers were wrangling, the big stars, headed by Griffith, Chaplin, Fairbanks, Hart, Pickford and Arbuckle, effected a temporary organization to combat the producers. Each star pl...

Biblically, Ben Turpin played John the Baptist (or actually an actor playing John the Baptist) in Sennett's SALOME VS. SHENANDOAH (1919). Now that I think of it, both Chaplin and Stan Laurel acted out comic versions of the David and Goliath story. OK, so let's amend my statement to say categoricall...

Being a kid about a half-century ago, it's just fun to say "Paul Parrott...Paul Parrott" or "Polly Parrott...Polly Parrott" in a parrott's voice. Nothing gay about it.

Now Charley actually named his daughter Polly didn't he? Talk about cruel & unusual punishment.

Biblically, Ben Turpin played John the Baptist (or actually an actor playing John the Baptist) in Sennett's SALOME VS. SHENANDOAH (1919). Now that I think of it, both Chaplin and Stan Laurel acted out comic versions of the David and Goliath story. OK, so let's amend my statement to say categoricall...

In support of the petition going around to get Charley's 20 Columbia shorts released on DVD: http://slapsticon.org/ManBitesLovebugLCsmall.jpg PS. This is slightly cropped due to the size of the glass on my scanner. And the first upload was waaaay too big, this seems about the right size even if the ...