I’ve recorded a lot of scores for DVD releases, and it’s always interesting to me which ones stick in my…
I’ve floated a couple trial balloons as projects to test the waters on another one I wanted to do. My…
Over the last couple years, I’ve had conversations with people who’ve told me how much they like the Accidentally Preserved…
I knew the name Billy Franey because Blackhawk Films sold prints of The Bath Dub (1921). I’d seen this listed…
A Baby Peggy Rediscovery — or: When “Circus Clowns” Doesn’t Mean “Circus Clowns” I was pretty much set with additional…
A Rare Comedy Short Made When the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread Was Still Sliced Bread A CBS Sunday Morning…
A lot of one-reel comedy shorts from the late 1920s seem to only survive in 16mm home use prints from…
The Ninety and Nine was one of a handful of stage properties that were very popular and which toured a…
One of the reasons a majority of people associate the piano with silent film, as opposed to theatre organ or…
The crowdfunding phase of my Douglas MacLean DVD project just concluded. I like to refer to the process as “fan-funding”.…