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Newer posts →. Update: KING OF JAZZ (1930) Restoration Debuts to Cheers and Tears. May 15, 2016. Updated 8/24/16 – New info in italics. You will be the second audience to have seen this film in a close approximation to its original form since 1930, film curator Dave Kehr told a capacity crowd at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Saturday. The movie about to screen was KING OF JAZZ. It’s recently undergone an extensive (and costly) reconstruction,. A spectacular array of screen, stage and radio star...

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Related Links | Frank Thompson: Author

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Conversations with Film Historians and Filmmakers. Thoughts and reviews from a fine filmmaker who is also a pioneering film historian. John Bengtson's Silent Locations. I consider "Commentary Track" guest John Bengtson's books to be among the treasures of my silent movies book collection. If you don't have them, click on "Podcasts" on the menu above, go to his page and order them immediately. The Lone Ranger Fan Club. As someone who helped Clayton Moore - the once and future Lone Ranger - write his autob...

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Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog: September 2014

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Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog. Musings On 20th Century Pop Culture by Psychotronic Paul. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. The fun started when the mini-musicals known as Vitaphone Varieties, most notably Al Jolson's screen debut in A Plantation Act, became a sensation in 1926-1927. Audiences were thrilled by the "talkie" short subjects which showcased the company's sound-on-disc system and often featured stage performers not seen before or since. The same MGM that could NOT figure out what to do with Bus...

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Trouble In Paradise: November 2005

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005. The lovely Dorothy Mackaill. Posted by jtk at 4:06 PM. Thursday, November 17, 2005. Lost and Found: On With the Show and Gold Diggers of Broadway. The footage from GOLD DIGGERS OF BROADWAY comes late in the film, just prior to the finale, in which Winnie Lightner confesses to Albert Gran that she has genuine affection for him, and not just his money. Gran is suitably flustered, and Lightner gleefully announces "Sweetie proposed! Jeff C. - vitaphone@aol.com. Rin Tin Tin's Favor...

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"Give me the good old days!": September 2013

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Monday, September 23, 2013. Lost" 3 Stooges film to be shown in NYC. Next Sunday and Monday (September 29th and 30th, for those with calendars), Film Forum. In New York City will be showing the recently found and restored 1933 MGM short, " Hello Pop. And his Three Stooges. Ron Hutchinson, of the Vitaphone Project. Who will also be introducing the films), was instrumental in getting this short to the US and wrote an article for the Three Stooges Journal. 8217;s short " Your Technocracy And Mine. 1928), wi...

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Supporting Partners – King of Jazz

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August 10, 2016. Media History Digital Library. 1725 Grande View Ave. Severn, MD 21144.

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A Man and A Mouse: How Colleen Moore Broke Into The Movies

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A Man and A Mouse. Theses on unpopular culture from a man with a mouse. Sunday, December 21, 2014. How Colleen Moore Broke Into The Movies. Portrait from How I Broke Into The Movies. With the recent discovery, restoration, and availability on Warner Archive disc of Why Be Good? I thought this an opportune time to post the second world internet premiere. From the book How I Broke Into The Movies. How I Broke Into The Movies. This article continues after the WORLD INTERNET PREMIERE break. Studios were tran...

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Convention City

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Keller Sisters and Lynch. Ray Mayer & Edith Evans. 1920’s Sheet Music. WHERE IS CONVENTION CITY. By Ron Hutchinson, Founder. Ldquo;Me, I was the one. Single-handedly I brought on the whole Code. Yeah. Ask Joe Breen. He’ll tell you. Ask him about Convention City. Rdquo; boasted Warner Brothers producer Henry Blanke. More than Lon Chaney’s London After Midnight, Laurel and Hardy’s Hats Off! Or a long list of other lost films, Convention City. And Spanish ( Que Semana! 1933) to Safe In Hell. 1931) - - were ...

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March | 2015 | Archive-Type: Musings of a Passionate Preservationist

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A-“GOG” at #TCMFF 2016: Talking 3D and Restoration With Bob Furmanek. Ariel’s Print Resource Guide for TCMFF 2016: Moving Pictures. Not Just The Clydesdales: Super Bowl 50 and Advertising History. Losing the Light, Keeping the Inspiration: Vilmos Zsigmond. Eric Caidin: Los Angeles Legend, Hollywood Cultural Treasure and My Friend. Best films of the year. In a lonely place. Let the right one in. Lonely Are the Brave. St patrick's day. TCM Film Festival 2011. Too late for tears. I really believe that the f...