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Graham Ritchie
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posted June 25, 2008 11:17 PM

Here are some amusing stills from the silent era.

"Why Worry" 1923 Harold Lioyd breezes through a Central American revolution.

Buster Keaton "The Frozen North" 1922 The sheriff of Yonkers.

"Sunnyside", 1919 Charlie's first fans were armies of children.
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Osi Osgood
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posted June 28, 2008 08:26 PM

Graham,

Wonderful captures of days gone by. I so long to have been born in either the late twenties or early thirties. I would have been VERY comfortable with it. Yes, no TV's but even if I was to travel back in time to then, knowing about TV, I really wouldn't miss it much.

I really envy those days.

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Joe Caruso
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posted June 29, 2008 09:51 AM

First watched Youngson's marvelous efforts about 1965 or so - While collecting films about three years prior, had I knwon to have the gumption of letter-writing, I would have trued sending notes to the then-surviving members of the Keystone Kops. Many of the silent-film actors were still around, I just didn't have the brains to think about it much. That and I wasn't certain on the years they were born to calculate age - Shorty

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Graham Ritchie
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posted May 02, 2012 02:34 PM

looking through old posts I came across some more old photos.

Buster Keaton in "The General".
PS. The two disc dvd thats been out for a while includes a new 5:1 sound track with the Tokyo City Philharmonic, its very good.

Our Gang from "War Feathers" 1926.

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan on the set of "The Kid" 1921.

The Second Hundred Years 1927 [Smile]

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Hugh Thompson Scott
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posted May 02, 2012 02:38 PM

That first picture Graham reminds me of some of the buildind sites
i've worked on,mechanisation, no problem,we don't have any,so
no problem.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted May 03, 2012 01:23 PM

I think that if it wasn't for Youngston's films, that scene from "Battle of the Century" might not have been rescued! (Shorty could give better info on that) ...

Although, Blackhawk did an extroidinary job with it's 400ft edition of that film! (very rare and VERY pricey!)

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