When I started accompanying films it was still common practice to show silent films, well…silent. They were only available in…
I’ve just been down a bit of a rabbit hole, thinking about the trajectory of the feature-length comedy in the…
I almost fell off the couch today, just like when I saw the Spongebob cartoon whose punchline was “Nosferatu!” several…
Like many people who are into classic film, I only knew Harry Myers as the drunk millionaire in Charlie Chaplin’s…
I knew the name Billy Franey because Blackhawk Films sold prints of The Bath Dub (1921). I’d seen this listed…
Prints of rare and lost films turn up in odd places. A distant cousin in Queens, removed a few times…
The Raymond Griffith comedy You’d Be Surprised (1926) is not as well-known as his other starring features. That’s not saying…
A Baby Peggy Rediscovery — or: When “Circus Clowns” Doesn’t Mean “Circus Clowns” I was pretty much set with additional…
I’ve been seeing items posted online over the last few months commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passing by Congress…
A Rare Comedy Short Made When the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread Was Still Sliced Bread A CBS Sunday Morning…