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| Trying To Expand My Silents Collection | |
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| igsjr | Sep 26 2005, 05:53 PM Post #16 |
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Rog-- I agree with Gravy re: the Arbuckle set; I think Arbuckle is a bit overrated but I do think the fourth disc in the set--with Fatty's Leap Year (1921) and some great shorts featuring Lloyd Hamilton and Lupino Lane are definitely worth a look-see. I'll come right out and say it, I bought the Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for the price (DVD Pacific has it for twenty-eight bucks and change) and because I want to encourage more silent comedy releases. Excellent choice on the Slapstick Encyclopedia purchase. I enjoyed the heck out of this set. Kino's Slapstick Symposium series--the two Charley Chase and Harold Lloyd volumes, the Stan Laurel and the Oliver Hardy collections are also very good. |
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| SuperRog | Sep 26 2005, 06:42 PM Post #17 |
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I think I may have mentioned that I did order one of the Slapstich Symposium editions...the Harold Lloyd one...and I also ordered a Charley Chase set which may also be of that series but I'm unsure. I'm getting lots of suggestions on a couple of boards so I bought a notebook today which I'll be marking down everyone's suggestions and I'll do a bit of research to see which of those I might want to eventually purchase myself. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 27 2005, 01:22 PM Post #18 |
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You're gonna love the Charley Chase sets, I'll bet. Silent films... I have far more on DVD than I ever had on VHS, and the kids love the ones I've shown 'em. A bonus: once they've seen a few silent films, the subtitles are second nature, and they'll watch foreign films like the French Beauty and the Beast without a second thought. |
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| SuperRog | Sep 27 2005, 01:28 PM Post #19 |
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Speaking of foreign films, I just ordered a French silent serial called Les Vampires, though I understand this isn't the blood-sucking kind of vampire. This is supposed to be a really good serial. For some reason, though, Amazon.com has this one-disc title priced at $63 while virtually eveyone else is charging less than $30 for it. Also, someone on another site recommended the Image DVD that includes both The General and Steamboat Bill Jr. I have the Kino versions of both of these and when I look at Amazon.com's customer reviews I note that a lot of them hated the music on the Image double-feature. Does anyone here have that one? I may just keep the Kino ones since there's so many other films I don't have at all I'd probably be better off getting instead. |
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| The Photoplayer | Sep 27 2005, 05:55 PM Post #20 |
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The music on the STEAMBOAT BILL JR./THE GENERAL DVD is by the Alloy Orchestra, who are a highly volitile subject in the silent film music community. The music consists of things like musical saws, accordions, banging on pots, etc. However, the flip side to this DVD is that the Image quality is outstanding. THE GENERAL is correctly tinted and toned and is off of original elements. STEAMBOAT BILL JR. never looked better. However, music is replacable. If you don't like it, I will gladly send you a few MP3 files of different flavor. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Sep 28 2005, 09:47 AM Post #21 |
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Anybody interested in building up a collection of silents, the Harold Lloyd films willcome out soon. |
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| SuperRog | Sep 28 2005, 11:13 AM Post #22 |
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Some of Lloyd's shorts are already available. I ordered one 2-disc set of those. The silents I've been ordering started arriving today. I received... Sunrise The Circus The Navigator Seven Chances The later two are Keaton discs and each comes with a pair of shorts to help fill out the program. This gives me 5 Buster Keaton DVDs now. The Circus is a Charlie Chaplin film...that gives me all of two Chaplin DVDs. |
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| Inspector Carr | Sep 28 2005, 03:00 PM Post #23 |
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In November The Harold Lloyd Trust along with Warner Home Video will be releasing "the Harold Lloyd collection" three discs available individually or in a box set at DVD Planet they are around $22.00 per single and $63.00 for the box set (Which appears to have a bonus disc). most of these films played on TCM over the past few years with the prints being restored by The Lloyd trust, the only drawback appears the lineup on each disc which mixes sound and silent. here are the contents of the discs VOLUME ONE Disc 1: Safety Last! (73 min), Eastern Westerner (24 min), Ask Father (13 min), Girl Shy (80 min) with alt. organ score, From Hand to Mouth (22 min) Disc 2: Side A-The Cat?s-Paw** (102 min), The Milky Way** (88 min), English subtitles and closed captions, Spanish subtitles, Side B-Why Worry? (63 min) VOLUME TWO Disc 1: Kid Brother (82 min), Bumping Into Broadway (26 min.), The Freshman (76 min), Billy Blazes, Esq. (13 min) with alt. organ score Disc 2: Side A-Dr. Jack (60 min), Feet First (91 min), Side B Grandma's Boy (56 min), Now or Never (36 min), High and Dizzy (26 min) VOLUME THREE Disc 1: Speedy (86 min), Never Weaken (29 min), Haunted Spooks (25 min), Hot Water (60 min) with alternate organ score. Disc 2: Side A- Movie Crazy(96 min), Get Out and Get Under (25 min), For Heaven's Sake (58 min) Side B- Number Please? (25 min), A Sailor-Made Man (47 min), Among Those Present (35 min), I Do (25 min) |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 29 2005, 07:26 AM Post #24 |
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When I was, oh, about 13, my school's Drama Club took a ride to beautiful Cuyahoga Falls to the Art Theatre (which later became a porno house) to see a double-feature of City Lights and Modern Times. Talk about a life-changing experience! I've loved silent movies ever since. It was about that time, I think, that channel 43 in Cleveland starting showing silent films on "The Late Show" Saturday nights, and I first saw The Last Laugh, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan of the Apes, and many others. The kids around Castle Gravy these days enjoy the silent films, "claim roles" for themselves, and read the dialog. Besides Modern Times, the most popular silent is probably Liberty, with Laurel & Hardy atop the unfinished skyscraper. I get requests for that all the time. They love Keaton's One Week, too, and Chaplin's Pay Day (although this isn't really fair, as they love all L&H, Keaton, and Chaplin). The Man Who Laughs, which I mentioned earlier, I'm gonna mention again. From a novel by Victor Hugo, it's never been remade, for some reason, but it's a powerful story and quite a good movie. If you like Chaney as Quasimodo or the silent version of The Cat and the Canary, you'll like this one, too. |
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| The Batman | Oct 1 2005, 06:23 PM Post #25 |
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Keep up those suggestions, everybody! As a relative new fan to the world of silents, I love reading about the stuff that is worth getting. Thanks! |
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| SuperRog | Oct 1 2005, 08:32 PM Post #26 |
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I received four silent movie DVDs on Saturday. Two were Slapstick Symposium collections, one of Harold Lloyd and one of Charley Chase. The other two were from a company I never heard of, Unknown Video. These were DVD-R discs but a quick check shows they play okay in my machine and I'd say the quality is pretty good. They each come with a bonus as well, bound in with each is a refrigerator magnet which is a tiny replica of a silent movie poster. The two movies I got were "Mickey", a comedy starring Mabel Normand (a Fatty & Mabel short is an extra) and a William S. Hart western called "Wagon Tracks" which also has a bonus short, starring G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson. |
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| OzRadio | Jun 29 2008, 02:33 PM Post #27 |
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Has anyone viewed the 12-disc Chaplin set put out by Delta? It got very mixed reviews on Amazon, primarily due to print quality. Half price bookstore here in town has it for $30 and I was thinking of using a half off coupon to get it. Are there better Chaplin sets available? Ryan |
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