Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum

You didn't mention the reconstructed MAJOR DUNDEE, which is now
showing!!

Mike S.
(harrumph, harrumph)
 >> Stay informed about: Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum 

Tom Moran (Feuillade@aol.com) writes:
> The new Film Forum schedule is going to be a good one for New York
> movie fans.
>
> But for silent buffs, the big news is the upcoming Harold Lloyd
> retrospective.
>
> Four weeks of Lloyd in Lower Manhattan.
>
> The festival runs from April 20 to May 17.
>
> The films include:
>
> Safety Last
> The Kid Brother
> Why Worry?
> Movie Crazy
> Speedy
> Girl Shy
> Hot Water
> Professor Beware
> Grandma's Boy
> Feet First
> The Freshman
> For Heaven's Sake
> The Milky Way
> Doctor Jack
> The Cat's Paw
> The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
> A Sailor-Made Man
> Welcome Danger
>
> For those of you who like talkies, Film Forum will also be showing an
> extensive Paramount Pre-Code series from June 24-July 21.
>
> They'll also be showing James Dean's three films from June 10-23.
>
> So it'll be a fun Spring at Film Forum.
>
> Tom Moran

If you go to _The Cat's Paw_, let me know what you think of it. I was
fascinated.

I hope they aren't planning to end with _Welcome Danger_. Ugh!

Connie K.
--
"To hell with the pillow in the background. It's a good scene, and that's
more important." Chaplin, Interview with Richard Meryman, 1966.
 >> Stay informed about: Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum 

Well, it's actually this version of "Welcome Danger," so it may be
worthwhile....

(1929) Mild-mannered botanist Harold Bledsoe — recruited because dad was the
former police chief — goes fingerprint happy to help quell the San Francisco
gang wars and track down Chinatown dope kingpin The Dragon. Completed as a
silent, but scrapped when sound loomed, Welcome Danger was largely reshot
and turned into a weird part-talkie hybrid that, due to the public’s
fascination with hearing Lloyd’s voice for the first time, became the
comedian’s biggest money-maker ever. While the original silent version is
lost, the camera negative of a silent, intertitled version of the talkie —
made for “unwired” theaters — did survive in Harold Lloyd’s vaults for 75
years. This version has now been restored by the UCLA Film and Television
Archive in a glowing print that looks like it was made yesterday (it may
rate as the best-preserved silent film in existence). But, photographic
brilliance apart, this silent version — although using much the same footage
as the talkie, plus some extended sequences and a few minor cast
differences — is a much brighter, much funnier, much more alive work than
the rather primitive sound film. As UCLA’s Jere Guldin wrote recently,
“Welcome Danger works better as a silent. Snappier and better-paced than its
sound double, it proves an enjoyable coda to a silent film career that was
among the cinema’s brightest.” Suppose a lost Louis Armstrong solo were
suddenly to surface, or a number cut from an Astaire-Rogers musical? For
movie lovers, the discovery of an unseen silent feature by one of the screen’s
greatest comic geniuses is cause for equal celebration.


"Constance Kuriyama" <do481 DeleteThis @FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:d3em4v$r8n$1@theodyn.ncf.ca...
>
> If you go to _The Cat's Paw_, let me know what you think of it. I was
> fascinated.
>
> I hope they aren't planning to end with _Welcome Danger_. Ugh!
>
> Connie K.
> --
> "To hell with the pillow in the background. It's a good scene, and that's
> more important." Chaplin, Interview with Richard Meryman, 1966.
 >> Stay informed about: Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum 

"Bill Coleman" <mondobill.TakeThisOut@ludwig.com> wrote in message
news:115lp052ievtk65@corp.supernews.com...
> Well, it's actually this version of "Welcome Danger," so it may be
> worthwhile....
>
> (1929) Mild-mannered botanist Harold Bledsoe - recruited because dad was
the
> former police chief - goes fingerprint happy to help quell the San
Francisco
> gang wars and track down Chinatown dope kingpin The Dragon. Completed as a
> silent, but scrapped when sound loomed, Welcome Danger was largely reshot
> and turned into a weird part-talkie hybrid that, due to the public's
> fascination with hearing Lloyd's voice for the first time, became the
> comedian's biggest money-maker ever. While the original silent version is
> lost, the camera negative of a silent, intertitled version of the talkie -
> made for "unwired" theaters - did survive in Harold Lloyd's vaults for 75
> years. This version has now been restored by the UCLA Film and Television
> Archive in a glowing print that looks like it was made yesterday (it may
> rate as the best-preserved silent film in existence). But, photographic
> brilliance apart, this silent version - although using much the same
footage
> as the talkie, plus some extended sequences and a few minor cast
> differences - is a much brighter, much funnier, much more alive work than
> the rather primitive sound film. As UCLA's Jere Guldin wrote recently,
> "Welcome Danger works better as a silent. Snappier and better-paced than
its
> sound double, it proves an enjoyable coda to a silent film career that was
> among the cinema's brightest." Suppose a lost Louis Armstrong solo were
> suddenly to surface, or a number cut from an Astaire-Rogers musical? For
> movie lovers, the discovery of an unseen silent feature by one of the
screen's
> greatest comic geniuses is cause for equal celebration.

I do look forward to seeing this when it hits DVD, but oh...if only the
original silent version still existed.
 >> Stay informed about: Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum 

But you did get mentioned by name in Todd McCarty's Variety review.
Congratulations.

Daniel Eagan
 >> Stay informed about: Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum 

"Bill Coleman" (mondobill@ludwig.com) writes:
> Well, it's actually this version of "Welcome Danger," so it may be
> worthwhile....
>
> (1929) Mild-mannered botanist Harold Bledsoe — recruited because dad was the
> former police chief — goes fingerprint happy to help quell the San Francisco
> gang wars and track down Chinatown dope kingpin The Dragon. Completed as a
> silent, but scrapped when sound loomed, Welcome Danger was largely reshot
> and turned into a weird part-talkie hybrid that, due to the public’s
> fascination with hearing Lloyd’s voice for the first time, became the
> comedian’s biggest money-maker ever. While the original silent version is
> lost, the camera negative of a silent, intertitled version of the talkie —
> made for “unwired” theaters — did survive in Harold Lloyd’s vaults for 75
> years. This version has now been restored by the UCLA Film and Television
> Archive in a glowing print that looks like it was made yesterday (it may
> rate as the best-preserved silent film in existence). But, photographic
> brilliance apart, this silent version — although using much the same footage
> as the talkie, plus some extended sequences and a few minor cast
> differences — is a much brighter, much funnier, much more alive work than
> the rather primitive sound film. As UCLA’s Jere Guldin wrote recently,
> “Welcome Danger works better as a silent. Snappier and better-paced than its
> sound double, it proves an enjoyable coda to a silent film career that was
> among the cinema’s brightest.” Suppose a lost Louis Armstrong solo were
> suddenly to surface, or a number cut from an Astaire-Rogers musical? For
> movie lovers, the discovery of an unseen silent feature by one of the screen’s
> greatest comic geniuses is cause for equal celebration.
>
>
> "Constance Kuriyama" <do481 DeleteThis @FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
> news:d3em4v$r8n$1@theodyn.ncf.ca...
>>
>> If you go to _The Cat's Paw_, let me know what you think of it. I was
>> fascinated.
>>
>> I hope they aren't planning to end with _Welcome Danger_. Ugh!
>>
>> Connie K.
>> --
>> "To hell with the pillow in the background. It's a good scene, and that's
>> more important." Chaplin, Interview with Richard Meryman, 1966.

Yes, that would be worth watching, but it will still have pretty much
the same content, which was a major part of my problem with it.

Connie K.
--
"To hell with the pillow in the background. It's a good scene, and that's
more important." Chaplin, Interview with Richard Meryman, 1966.
 >> Stay informed about: Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum 

michael_schlesinger.RemoveThis@spe.sony.com wrote:

> You didn't mention the reconstructed MAJOR DUNDEE,
> which is now showing!!

You're right. I didn't.

I didn't for two reasons:

1) I didn't think it was appropriate on this newsgroup.

2) I'm not exactly a big Peckinpah fan.

(Sorry. Mea culpa.)

Tom Moran
 >> Stay informed about: Harold Lloyd at NYC's Film Forum