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- Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:25 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Dee Lampton was paid twice as much as Harold Lloyd!
- Replies: 3
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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...
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:55 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Survival Status Query: Klever Komedies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19049
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...
- Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:17 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Books & Periodicals
- Replies: 36
- Views: 150253
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-...
- Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:01 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
- Replies: 13
- Views: 75264
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...
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:20 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
- Replies: 13
- Views: 75264
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...
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:01 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
- Replies: 13
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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...
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:01 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Silent Comedy Mafia Library: Special Collections
- Replies: 13
- Views: 75264
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...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:33 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: God bless you, Ben Model
- Replies: 9
- Views: 18251
God bless you, Ben Model
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- 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: 37776
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
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:02 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10742
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...