Music has been delivered for decades on various forms of discs that spin and scratch, from the 78rpm shellac recording through the 45 to vinyl and finally, in the mid-1980s, the Compact Disc. It’s hard to remember that the CD was once a miraculous piece of technology–especially now that most
‘The Tooth Will Out’ (1951) is the 134th short subject made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed on Monday, February 19th and Tuesday, February 20th 1951 and was released on Thursday, October 4th of that year. The abbreviated two-day shooting schedule (the Shemp shorts were generally
Some director–I think it was Leo McCarey–was asked if he had a favorite movie of his own. His answer was that if he could cut together the best parts of all his movies, that would be his own favorite movie. Ask me the same question and you’ll get a different
Some rarities of the past are so deeply weird–so obscure and near indecipherable–that viewing/listening to them is akin to discovering hieroglyphics of long dead civilizations and attempting to translate them into something relatively meaningful. Which brings us to ‘The Voice Of Hollywood’, a series of short films produced by Poverty
Recently I decided to unearth a pile of delicate, glass 78rpm records that I’ve been dragging around with me from one house to another over the years, each move threatening the life of these beauties. I hadn’t played them for many years–most were acquired when I was a kid and
‘Rhythm And Weep’ (1946) is the 95th short subject made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, April 23 through Friday, April 26th 1946 and was released on Friday, October 3rd of that year. It is without a doubt the worst Curly short ever made
Enjoy Alfalfa’s serenade to me today, the day that marks my 59th trip around the sun. Ah, pineapple! Not bad!!
As long as we’re going down the American Movie Classics rabbit hole this week, why not pay a visit to another groovy AMC set (dig the moviola with reels threaded up in the background) with its coolest announcer ever. I speak of Nick Clooney (yes, yes, George’s father). Nick’s manner
Apropos of yesterday’s post in which I linked the ill-fated American Movie Classics to the soon-to-be ill fated TCM, here’s another clip of AMC’s Bob Dorian. This time he’s introducing the Orson Welles version of ‘Treasure Island’ which is apparently paired with ‘Isle Of The Dead’. As usual, though, Orson
In corporate America (and show-biz–which I guess belongs to the former and thus is the same thing) you can’t stuff the Genji back in the bottle. When a studio hints that a project might go into turnaround, that project is 99/44/100% dead. When the very whisper was made of TCM