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”.…
I should know if Harry Watson, Jr. and Marion Davies appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies together (alas, for the moment,…
Back when my interest in film collecting had whittled itself down to trying to pick up silent comedy shorts in…
My current Kickstarter funded in 9 hours. This is not an anomaly for me. My last one funded in 8,…
I have released two DVDs of films identified at the Mostly Lost film identification workshop. Whether they realize it or…