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by Richard M Roberts
Sat Mar 15, 2014 4:33 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Snub Pollard - unidentified 9.5 clip
Replies: 5
Views: 9678

Re: Snub Pollard - unidentified 9.5 clip

This is TOUGH LUCK, the eighth released (December 21, 1919) Snub Pollard Comedy. That is indeed Mildred Davis playing the leading lady.


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by Richard M Roberts
Fri Mar 14, 2014 5:05 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Notes Past: HER PRIMITIVE MAN (1944)
Replies: 1
Views: 5803

Cinevent Notes Past: HER PRIMITIVE MAN (1944)

We've been cranking out new program notes for this years Cinevent, and we'll be posting some of those soon to whet your appetites to come out for the Fest, but here's a few more past one to start off the year, first up being this 1944 Univerasl Comedy: HER PRIMITIVE MAN Here’s this year’s offering f...
by Richard M Roberts
Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:34 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: WHATS MY LINE (1959) Grouche Marx panelist
Replies: 0
Views: 5493

WHATS MY LINE (1959) Grouche Marx panelist

Continuing with our nostalgia for the days when Television was a tad more intelligent, and also because this is a damn funny show that we just recently caught up with, here's an episode originally broadcast September 20, 1959 of that wonderful Game Show WHATS MY LINE in which, along with the regular...
by Richard M Roberts
Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:32 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: THE CHERRY HUNT (1930-31) with Dorothy Lee
Replies: 0
Views: 4739

THE CHERRY HUNT (1930-31) with Dorothy Lee

Hey You Wheeler and Woolsey Fans! Here's a rare and odd little home movie Dorothy Lee made up at a weekend at Big Bear in the early 30's with her then Husband (number two of six) Hollywood reporter JImmy Fidler. The other couple they trade off with were their friends Honey and Bill "Razz" ...
by Richard M Roberts
Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:04 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: What Happened to Kalton C. Lahue
Replies: 12
Views: 26560

Re: What Happened to Kalton C. Lahue

While we're on the topic of Kalton Lahue, I'm curious to know more about Sam Gill. It sounds like a lot of you all know him personally. All I know is that he went to the University of Kansas and I guess now is retired from the Herrick Library. But what happened in between that stirred his interest ...
by Richard M Roberts
Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:56 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: What Happened to Kalton C. Lahue
Replies: 12
Views: 26560

What Happened to Kalton C. Lahue

Speaking with Sam Gill this week, Sam told me that he had finally tracked down what had happened to an Author whose work most likely influenced most of us here, Kalton C. Lahue, who wrote what is still two of the most important books on Silent Comedy, WORLD OF LAUGHTER, and CLOWN PRINCES AND COURT J...
by Richard M Roberts
Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:22 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: WHAT IN THE WORLD? (1954) with Vincent Price
Replies: 4
Views: 11072

WHAT IN THE WORLD? (1954) with Vincent Price

Here's something that you don't see anywhere on television anymore, a program featuring people who actually know about something (in this case art and archaeology) examining artifacts and going through the process of figuring out what they are. We the viewers may actually learn something about art a...
by Richard M Roberts
Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:15 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville
Replies: 118
Views: 184553

Re: Richard M.Roberts Banned from Nitrateville

1. You are not actually entitled to see any of this stuff. 2. You are damn lucky to be seeing so much that you are seeing and for so little. 3. Whining about imperfections in 80-100 year old films that may barely survive at all or in less then perfect condition only shows your ignorance and ingrati...
by Richard M Roberts
Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:48 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Snub Pollard - Blue Sunday
Replies: 9
Views: 13222

Re: Snub Pollard - Blue Sunday

Rob Farr wrote:What were Laugh-a-Bits?


Italian Television version of a "Comedy Capers" show, there are a few on Youtube


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... bits&sm=12


And they seem to have a number of rare clips.


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by Richard M Roberts
Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:45 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Snub Pollard - Blue Sunday
Replies: 9
Views: 13222

Re: Snub Pollard - Blue Sunday

It's BLUE SUNDAY (1921) allright, and the music is "Keystone Kapers" by Spike Jones, which hearing always takes me back to fond memories of the Disneyland Old Movie Theater on Main Street, where it played endlessly to never-ending loops of a half-dozen silent movies.



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