Retour de Flamme in NYC
For those of you who have never seen Serge Bromberg's Retour de flamme, a compilation of Bromberg's latest finds in his Lobster Films archive, I'd highly recommend it if you're ever in Paris or New...
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TServo4 wrote: TUNNEL SOUS LA MACHNE OU LE CAUCHEMAR FRANCO-ANGLAIS (1907) - A Melies farce/fantasy about a transcontinental tunnel. Beautiful hand colored print made this better than it actually was....
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TServo4 wrote: POOR JAKE'S DEMISE (1913)-- Lon Chaney's first billed appearance and now the earliest known surviving Chaney film. A downbeat IMP comedy, I don't know who the star was as Jake, the man...
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Great info, Doc. Yes, I forgot to mention that Fazenda was in the film. What surprises me most of all is that the IMP comedies tend to be few and far between, but always a step above the rest....
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TServo4 wrote: Any idea who the three cops in the film were? The plump one was a stock player who seems to turn up in stills from just about every 'Joker Comedy' release from 1913/14 (for example, in...
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After all these years I never new that the Universal Jokers were comidies! and Chaney's first known film was an IMP comedy. Who would have known!
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doctor kiss wrote: Still from one of Asher's horror/fantasy-themed 'Jokers': Wow, an early example of optical film censorship!
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I just turned up an interesting tidbit about Max Asher having served as Chaney Jr.'s make-up man (or one of them, at least) on FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943). Asher was regularly employed as a...
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I hope Flicker Alley cooks up another DVD box of goodies for those of us who can't make it to these things.
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