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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted May 30, 2011 12:27 PM
Last night I finally finished watching my acquisitions from the BFCC and I am glad. Mostly hits and only a very few misses (i.e. bad prints,and one short bought twice!!).Mostly standard 8 silent (there is where most of the treasures are!!) Let's see.. the features: Murnau's CITY GIRL, Vidor's LA BOHEME, Abram Romm's BED AND SOFA, Groucho and Carmen Miranda in COPACABANA (unfortunately a british 71 minute version but most enjoyable, nevertheless) and James Hayter in THE PICKWICK PAPERS. Among the shorts,a number of excellent prints (Blackhawk and Breakspear) of several Griffith Biographs and Edisons,two comedies with Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew (TOO CLEVER BY HALF and HIS FIRST LOVE STORY),and others with Cliff Bowes (WEAK KNEES), Johnny Arthur (JOHNNY'S WOOING),Max Davidson (FLAMING FATHERS),Ben Turpin in a rare Vogue (STUDIO STAMPEDE) and Snooky (SNOOKY'S FRESH HEIR).A "making of.." DIRECTOR OF 'THE DEVILS'with Ken Russell and a FooFoo cartoon. A nice crop I would say!
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Dino Everette
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1535
From: Long Beach, CA USA
Registered: Dec 2008
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posted June 06, 2011 02:11 AM
Wayne...I don't think you are going to like this but, it looks like I have had the camera set on auto for sometime now...
I have been experiencing a number of computer problems lately, so I am waaaaaay behind on my pics, but here is the start of catching up, although I can't remember which days I watched which, but in the order I watched them are as follows....
First my new favorite movie that i saw by chance on the German ebay...YETI (aka Yeti - il gigante del 20. secolo, 1977) (2 x 400ft Super 8 --matted for widescreen) I don't know how I missed this film when I was growing up, but W W ! ! ! Equal parts King Kong(Delaurentis), Towering Inferno, Attack of the 50ft Woman...I don't even care that it is an Italian film dubbed into German, and I don't know what they are saying...BRILLIANT! !
Next up an original 16mm print of a Hal Roach comedy entitled BROADWAY LIMITED (1941) featuring my favorite funny gal Patsy Kelly, and an added bonus of Zasu Pitts (both Thelma Todd's comedy short partners)...It is your usual runaway train, baby snatching, mistaken identity, star on the run, comedy romance, so I loved it....The print was a little mis-advertised, since it came stinking of vitafilm and had some serious warping at the tail end, but a patsy kelly film is always a good purchase...
Not sure how the pic will look since I am not using photoshop..
-------------------- "You're too Far Out Miss Lawrence"
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