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- Tue May 31, 2011 9:56 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Guardian: Collector finds unseen Charlie Chaplin film in tin
- Replies: 16
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Re: Guardian: Collector finds unseen Charlie Chaplin film in tin
Ya know what blows is that I remember bidding on this film early in the game and the seller ended it prematurely telling me he decided he wanted to do more research on the film. I told him - in my best Stan Laurel - that's a good idea. So this is what happened! LOL The original seller is probably la...
- Sun May 29, 2011 1:37 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Mabel's Blunder - Who is Mabel's Brother?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23827
Re: Mabel's Blunder - Who is Mabel's Brother?
Hello Mafioso... Just today I came across the identification of Chaplin's Keystone leading lady, previously tentatively ID'ed as Helen Carruthers or unfortunately labeled "Unknown Chaplin Heroine." According to a few issues of Motion Picture Magazine , 1915, Vol X (courtesy of Google book ...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:58 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Walter Lantz in comedy shorts?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23160
Re: Walter Lantz in comedy shorts?
Colvig actually left Sennett in February 1925 for Century. He too, like Lantz, was hired as a gagwriter, not an animator. I believe the Sennett head-animator was Ernie Crockett who was with the company at least as early as the first Pathecomedies, 1923. Trick photography and animation were his speci...
- Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:11 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Walter Lantz in comedy shorts?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23160
Re: Walter Lantz in comedy shorts?
Nice Steve, and thanks for posting that story! I never heard anything about Lantz "animating" for Sennett. Lantz himself told me years ago that he was one of their gagwriters and never did mention having done any animation. Perhaps Sennett was in desperation for the cootie gag and remember...
- Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:56 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Walter Lantz in comedy shorts?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23160
Re: Walter Lantz in comedy shorts?
Hello Folks.... Lantz did work for Sennett in 1927/28 but as a gagwriter, not an animator. Unless someone can dig up actual quotes that he did indeed animate at Sennett, as far as I know, he did not. And it is possible that he appeared in some Sennett shorts 'tho I've never noticed him in any of the...
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:10 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Al St. John frames
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10715
Re: Al St. John frames
Never saw these pics posted (thanks Ian), but I actually saw this unidentified film a few years back and am pretty sure Steve Massa figured out the title based on a print at the former Nederlands Filmmuseum. I remember the beginning how Hilliard Karr steals & drinks up several large containers o...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:57 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25039
Re: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
Sharp, Steve! Yes, my mind was sleeping! Charles Dorety I did mean.
Thanks Steve! And that's not Jack Cooper? It's Jimmie Adams?
Looked a lot like Coop and it does look like Adams!
Make-up creates such illusions (and delusions!)
Thanks again, Steve!
s
Thanks Steve! And that's not Jack Cooper? It's Jimmie Adams?
Looked a lot like Coop and it does look like Adams!
Make-up creates such illusions (and delusions!)
Thanks again, Steve!
s
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25039
Re: watch "His Musical Sneeze" - now online at DFI site
Thanks for the tip, Ben.
Enjoyed watching this rarity which looked like a Larry Semon comedy to me.
Nice to see the rarely seen Virginia Rappe.
Just wanted to say I also noticed:
Glen Cavender as Rappe's father
Charlie Bowers as Ham's Rival
and Jack Cooper the character in Ham's auto.
SteveR
Enjoyed watching this rarity which looked like a Larry Semon comedy to me.
Nice to see the rarely seen Virginia Rappe.
Just wanted to say I also noticed:
Glen Cavender as Rappe's father
Charlie Bowers as Ham's Rival
and Jack Cooper the character in Ham's auto.
SteveR
- Sun Jan 02, 2011 12:39 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21144
Re: MYSTERY HAM AND BUD STILL
Hi Guys, and Happy New Year!
Definitely not Rube Miller in the dark suit with Ham and Bud.
I'm 100% sure it is in fact, like Rob & Joe suggest: William Beaudine.
The girl is Ethel Teare; don't recognize the guy second from right.
SteveR
Definitely not Rube Miller in the dark suit with Ham and Bud.
I'm 100% sure it is in fact, like Rob & Joe suggest: William Beaudine.
The girl is Ethel Teare; don't recognize the guy second from right.
SteveR
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:51 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Katherine Grant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13747
Re: Katherine Grant
I always liked Katherine Grant in the Chase and Laurel shorts.
Chris, that's not her in the photo - was it supposed to be? LOL
SteveR
Chris, that's not her in the photo - was it supposed to be? LOL
SteveR