‘Slaphappy Sleuths’ (1950) is the 127th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, April 11 through Thursday, April 14, 1949 and was released on Thursday, November 9, 1950 (the 313th day in the Gregorian Calendar). It is a mostly laugh-free Shemp outing,
Yesterday I posted about Burton Holmes, travel guru and the inventor of the ‘travelogue’–movies showing the public exotic lands that they could never hope to travel too. The post shows views of Hollywood in the early 1930s, by then Holmes adopted home base. Above is another reel of Hollywood-based Holmes
Below is a marvelous short series of clips of Hollywood in the early 1930s as photographed by the then famous (and now forgotten) Burton Holmes, inventor of the ‘travelogue’. Holmes was a moderately successful ‘travel lecturer’ beginning in the late 19th century when this was a particularly exotic profession. He
Nothing transports me back in time to my childhood quite as much as watching old local TV commercials and station I.D.’s. This is clearly the result of spending way too much time staring at the tube as a kid but what the hell–it was back in the days before children
This extraordinary piece of film is a new one to me. It shows sections of a trolley ride–the camera mounted in the front of the car–down Broadway, from Herald Square to Union Square sometime in the very early twentieth century. Though the quality of the picture is poor, there is
‘False Alarms’ (1936) is the 17th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, May 19th through Friday, May 22, 1936 and released on Sunday, August 16th of the same year (the 229th day in the Gregorian calendar). This is one of the
What better way to kiss the week off then with a few vintage K-TEL commercials? (Actually there are many better ways but I can’t think of them at the moment). Below, behold ads for the idiotic ‘Super Slider Sno-skates’, the moronic ‘Mood Shirt’ and the actually very cool ‘Super Bad’
As a long-time SCTV fan (that word barely scratches the surface of my love for and veneration of that long-gone show) I thought I’d seen every last drop of every last SCTV sketch. Somehow though I seem to have missed the above clip, which is quite simply the greatest Martin
My love/hate relationship with Jerry Lewis just tilted a little further to the latter upon seeing what is truly a repulsive interview clip from 2015. Every word he utters is filled with bile, hatred and intolerance. Except when he praises himself. Go on. Take a look…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBp1wLMCmeohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYspFe9u5RU Apropos of yesterday’s post on the joys of Muzak, above are two TV spots for the Los Angeles FM Muzak station KJOI. My memory is that there were no announcers on the station–it was a solid hour of Muzak-Bed with a canned announcement at the end of the hour