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Category: Silent Comedy Film History

Accidentally Preserved by the Kinetophone

June 21, 2019 Ben Model 2 Comments

When the Thomas Edison Company set out to make its sound films in 1913, preservation wasn’t necessarily what they were…

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Posted in: Silent Comedy Film History

Marcel Perez: One Name Behind the Camera

June 19, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

Marcel Perez kept revising his onscreen persona and his character’s name throughout his career. His years working in the U.S.…

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Posted in: Marcel Perez, Silent Comedy Film History, Uncategorized

Douglas MacLean – Picking Up Where Douglas Fairbanks Left Off

June 8, 2019 Ben Model Leave a comment

There were two main types of feature-length comedies made during the silent era. There were the slapstick ones, which sputtered…

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Posted in: DVD distribution, Silent Comedy Film History

Silent Comedy Features Without All That Slapstick

June 6, 2019 Ben Model 1 Comment

Douglas Fairbanks spent six years making feature-length light comedies, mainly playing a semi-typical middle-class young man on a series of…

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Posted in: Silent Comedy Film History Filed under: Douglas MacLean

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  • ep. 46: Kansas Silent Film Festival…and Other In-Person Shows, plus some new Undercrank Projects
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  • ep. 45: Home Video Releases, Kickstarters, Marion Davies, Wesleyan and MoMA
  • ep. 08 (re-posted): “A Trip to the Moon” in Tromsø, an Organ in Oslo, live comedy show “Everybody Gets Cake”, Marcel Perez
  • ep. 07 (re-posted): News From the Road, “Peter Pan”, Hitchcock’s “Blackmail”, physical comedy show “Everybody Gets Cake”
  • ep. 44: Exploring the Music of “City Lights”…From Inside the Score
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