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by Andrew Sholl
Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:25 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Dee Lampton was paid twice as much as Harold Lloyd!
Replies: 3
Views: 8853

Dee Lampton was paid twice as much as Harold Lloyd!

Boy, the things that turn up on EBay. It looks like Hal Roach really DID have high hopes for Dee Lampton to become "the next Roscoe Arbuckle". The evidence is to be found in Lampton's starring contract for Hal Roach, dated July 1916. Over the course of the previous four months the young co...
by Andrew Sholl
Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:55 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Survival Status Query: Klever Komedies
Replies: 10
Views: 18584

Re: Survival Status Query: Klever Komedies

There's a comprehensive article specifically about the Klever Comedies released in 1917, "Klever Komedies in the Great War: One Studio's Contribution to the War Effort" , by Stephen R. Webb (Film History, Vol.3, No.2, 1989, Indiana University Press). It includes a studio filmography, the s...
by Andrew Sholl
Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:17 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Books & Periodicals
Replies: 36
Views: 126624

Re: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Books & Periodicals

Illustrated Films Monthly Sept 1913-Feb 1914 https://archive.org/details/illustrat01ffwo Mar-Aug 1914 https://archive.org/details/illustra02ffwo The Implet Jan-Jun 1912 https://archive.org/details/implet01bedd Inside Facts of Stage and Screen 11 Jan 1930 https://archive.org/details/insidefacts1102-...
by Andrew Sholl
Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:01 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
Replies: 13
Views: 62787

Re: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections

http://billdouglas.ex.ac.uk/eve/index.asp THE BILL DOUGLAS CENTRE Univesity of Exeter Library Museum and research centre housing one of Britain’s largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema. Images of many of the items can be f...
by Andrew Sholl
Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:20 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
Replies: 13
Views: 62787

Re: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections

http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/warshaw/m-pictures.htm WARSHAW COLLECTION OF BUSINESS AMERICANA: MOTION PICTURES, 1896-1963 Smithsonian Institution The collection is especially strong for the silent movie era, 1893-1927. 2 cubic feet: 6 DB, 10 O/S Fldrs. Divided into seven series: Series 1: M...
by Andrew Sholl
Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:01 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
Replies: 13
Views: 62787

Re: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/perform.htm QUIGLEY DEPOSIT COLLECTION The most complete runs extant of Quigley publications: Motion Picture Herald and its antecedents (1915-1972); Motion Picture Daily (1930-1972); International Mo...
by Andrew Sholl
Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:01 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
Replies: 13
Views: 62787

Re: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections

http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39346.html ANTHONY SLIDE COLLECTION Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Currently 25 cubic feet of files focus upon Slide's own publications, projects, consultation work, activities at the Academy of Motion Ar...
by Andrew Sholl
Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:33 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: God bless you, Ben Model
Replies: 9
Views: 18106

God bless you, Ben Model

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Charlie-Chaplin-Impersonator-Bethany-Hare-Given-Original-Song-After-Being-Charged-For-Royalties/Article/201008215682235?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15682235_Charlie_Chaplin_Impersonator_Bethany_Hare_Given_Original_Son...
by Andrew Sholl
Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:20 am
Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
Topic: Max Davidson and Roach "Female Comedy Teams" coming to DVD
Replies: 19
Views: 36807

Re: Max Davidson and Roach "Female Comedy Teams" coming to DVD

The release date for the Max Davison collection is stil listed as Autumn/Fall. The Female Comedy Teams DVD is due out in October. See: http://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/advan ... x+davidson
by Andrew Sholl
Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:02 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
Replies: 5
Views: 10637

Re: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard

Yair - Here's the review from the Moving Picture World, 21 Aug 1920: "The knockabout scenes are taken for the most part in a park, where Snub and a fat friend get in trouble with pursuing cops. Snub gets out on the lake in a boat with no bottom and two of the cops jump through it from a high br...