Remembering movie comedy pioneer Al Christie and several Vitagraph Studios comedians – including John Bunny and Larry Semon – whose shorts are included in a new Kino Classics DVD set.
John Bunny
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The Negro Soldier and The Big Heat + early John Bunny comedy added to National Film Registry which excludes films focused on LGBT experiences
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Mary Pickford in Maurice Tourneur’s The Poor Little Rich Girl (top); Dustin Farnum in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (bottom). The Birth of Hollywood, part II of the seven-part …
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Hypnosis and Crime + Early John Sayles & Unbalanced Housewife: UCLA Festival of Preservation
42 minutes readHypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch …
Baseball Films + Inceville + Jennifer Jones Final ‘Star’ Role
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Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball – 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film …