Cinecon: A CLOSE SHAVE was never lost, not even close
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:20 pm
http://www.cinecon.org/cinecon_films.html
One just has to smirk and shake one's head at the general nonsense hyperbole emanating from the "Cinecon on-line" statement in their showing of Mack Sennett's A CLOSE SHAVE (1929) that it was a "formerly lost" film and that their showing of what is frankly a rather tepid to mediocre film is some sort of a major "re-premiere". I can say this because I have had a print of the film for more than thirty years, and I never considered my print even a "one-of-a-kind" rarity.
In fact, here's a copy of the film on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/BillSprague ... CloseShave
Well, I'm sure thems that run that show these days are a little hard pressed to make a pretty ho-hum line-up sound all that interesting,
RICHARD M ROBERTS
One just has to smirk and shake one's head at the general nonsense hyperbole emanating from the "Cinecon on-line" statement in their showing of Mack Sennett's A CLOSE SHAVE (1929) that it was a "formerly lost" film and that their showing of what is frankly a rather tepid to mediocre film is some sort of a major "re-premiere". I can say this because I have had a print of the film for more than thirty years, and I never considered my print even a "one-of-a-kind" rarity.
In fact, here's a copy of the film on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/BillSprague ... CloseShave
Well, I'm sure thems that run that show these days are a little hard pressed to make a pretty ho-hum line-up sound all that interesting,
RICHARD M ROBERTS