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by Richard M Roberts
Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:49 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: RIPS AND RUSHES (1917) HUghey Mack and Jimmy Aubrey
Replies: 3
Views: 5302

RIPS AND RUSHES (1917) HUghey Mack and Jimmy Aubrey

With Larry Semon Directing.

Transferred too damn slow once again at 18 fps (and this is a Library of Congress preservation, you;d think they would know better), but at least you can see it:



http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserv ... ushes-1917



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by Richard M Roberts
Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:34 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Almost MOSTLY LOST
Replies: 11
Views: 17963

Re: Almost MOSTLY LOST

If you' haven't done so already, join the Friends of Mostly Lost FB page. Lots of up to the minute reports with screen shots. In other words, if you haven't made your deal with the devil and joined Facebook, you are SOL. This comes from silent comedy mafia's so-called "up to the minute" M...
by Richard M Roberts
Sat Jul 19, 2014 4:21 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Unidentified Glen Lambert...
Replies: 9
Views: 13174

Re: Unidentified Glen Lambert...

DaveGlass wrote:Yay. Thanks Richard!
How did you ID it?



Frequently one finds things one is not looking for at the time when one is researching something else.


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by Richard M Roberts
Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:42 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Unidentified Glen Lambert...
Replies: 9
Views: 13174

Re: Unidentified Glen Lambert...

The title on this film is THE BATHING BEACH BOOB, it is indeed a Bray Co Comedy from 1928.


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by Richard M Roberts
Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:04 pm
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: Orson Welles plays Falstaff on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (1967)
Replies: 4
Views: 10489

Re: Orson Welles plays Falstaff on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (196

You right. I didn't think of the timeline before but Welles was holed up in Europe til about the mid-Sixties, hiding from creditors, drinking good wine and squirreling away his treasures in various French chateau's to be discovered later.....like his print of TOO MUCH JOHNSON. And doing a bit more ...
by Richard M Roberts
Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:53 pm
Forum: SCM 101
Topic: Silent "Our Gang" question (not the usual one)
Replies: 8
Views: 38729

Re: Silent "Our Gang" question (not the usual one)

Gary Johnson wrote:What with this and the Langdon discovery, you've been on quite a roll this past month solving your own lifetime film mysteries.



No, I 've had this print quite awhile, I just noticed yesterday that we had a thread talking about this from ages ago.



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by Richard M Roberts
Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:51 am
Forum: SCM 101
Topic: Silent "Our Gang" question (not the usual one)
Replies: 8
Views: 38729

Re: Silent "Our Gang" question (not the usual one)

Reviving another ancient thread, I can now state that I indeed have found a true Hal Roach print from Onyx Pictures! A print of THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY that I picked up awhile back has an Onyx Pictures THE END title on it! A nice print, with original opening and inter-titles, but the replaced Onyx en...
by Richard M Roberts
Wed Jul 16, 2014 1:15 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: Orson Welles plays Falstaff on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (1967)
Replies: 4
Views: 10489

Re: Orson Welles plays Falstaff on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (196

I would hazard a guess that Orson was among Deans annual twice-yearly guests for the duration of the shows run. And even afterwords. Many of those same guests ended up on Dean's silly Roasts in the '70's -- including Welles. Welles had met Greg Garrison back in the forties when Garrison was a teena...
by Richard M Roberts
Wed Jul 16, 2014 1:00 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Notes Past: MISSISSIPPI (1935) with W. C. Fields
Replies: 27
Views: 48267

Re: Cinevent Notes Past: MISSISSIPPI (1935) with W. C. Field

Ron Fields was already busy humanizing his great-grandfather back in the mid-70's when his book came out. And he probably had a rougher road to hoe at that time since WC Fields was at the height of his revival popularity, his films played constantly in the major markets and his personae was known b...
by Richard M Roberts
Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:28 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Cinevent Notes Past: MISSISSIPPI (1935) with W. C. Fields
Replies: 27
Views: 48267

Re: Cinevent Notes Past: MISSISSIPPI (1935) with W. C. Field

Part of the problem with both Curtis's Spencer Tracy and James Whale books was that he was writing about people who were frequently assholes, you just really don't want to spend that close a company with those guys. Yes, totally. Tracy, in particular, came across as an unlikeable bore. But, Curtis....