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Many TV shows and movie previews that stink up commecial television today would have received a big fat X-Rating in 1968. So would crap like informercials for Male Enhancemnt products and such. With respect all this stuff is so tasteless. Excessive vulgar Profanity now is celebrated and seems to be one of the beloved things on earth today. I don't get it. There bleeping things out is worse than hearing the word, because everyone knows what is being said and they just call attention to it repeatedly like it is such a cool thing. Like I said Tasteless. Just look at the mentality of most of the people on Youtube. That says it all. They can't carry one a intelligent conversation without constant cussing around.

Breaking news! The *WINGS* DVD/possible Blu-ray apparently will be out before the end of 2011! Take a look at this thread just started today on Nitrateville by Greg Nestor, who was present at the recording session of the recreation of the original 1927 J. S. Zamecnik Orchestral score. http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9919

Very depressing news. THE AVENGERS is my all time favorite show ever. However, it was one of the very first classic TV shows to be released on DVD in 1998. Starting with the 1966-67 season. Which was actually season 5. THE NEW AVENGERS has been on DVD since probably 2002-2003 are those out of print too? These must still be available in Region 2. I'm sure they wil be re-released eventually. I have almost every episode from 1962 on. Had not herard anything about a new movie, but unless it's set in the 60's or 70's it's bound to be crap. And I want more than just Steed and Mrs Peel. I want everybody in the cast. An animated feature would be the best way to go.

Scottman, *SEVEN CHANCES* was broadcast a handful of times on the old AMC (than known as American Movie Classics), between 1995 and 2001. '95 was the Keaton Centennial, and the first release of the Art Of Buster Keaton Box set's on VHS, and Laser-disc from Image Entertainment. Not Kino. This was a year or two prior to the introduction of DVD. I have only had TCM since May 1st, 1999, so I'm not sure what aired on TCM prior to that? *GO WEST* with a pretty good score for the old Image Laser-disc release sounding like a 60's reissue was also shown on the old AMC during the same time frame. I was under the impression that TCM ran *GO WEST* a few years ago when Keaton was featured on Summer Under The Stars, but with the synthesized Kino Eric Beheim track. Hopefully, *GO WEST* will be coming out on Blu-Ray with a better score and that is what TCM will be running in October? Although I certainly won't count on it happening.

Finally, SEVEN CHANCES (1925) on TCM for th first time ever! By far my favorite Keaton feature. I do hope that TCM will also be showing SHERLOCK JUNIOR with the new Mont Alto Orchestra score instead of the horrid Club Foot Orchestra music that it has aired with for the past 6 years or so. The Blu-Ray edition from Kino has the Mont Alto score as it's default. So it is the official score now. Also it's possible we could get the Carl davis score to OUR HOSPITALITY as well. Replacing the Donald Hunsburger score. It's not a given this will happen just a couple weeks ago TCM aired Fairbanks the THE THIEF OF BAGDAD and it still had the same Gaylord Carter score as 12 years ago. Even thought the current Kino DVd release has Mont Alto Orchestra, and the Gaylord Carter score was entirely replaced. And it is not a recent release. The last Kino edition was released 7 years ago. I could not believe that we did not hear the Mont Alto score during the broadcast.

Here is an unusual painted Lobby-card. *Douglas Fairbanks-THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920)*

Mark, Thanks for the offer. I have another DVD recorder without a hard-drive that seems to be working just fine. I rarely use it. Plus I can also record on my computer. So I should be OK. It's just that the broken Stand-Alone Hard-DVR/Burner records the best picture. I'll be OK. I looked at some new DVR's with built in burner's on ebay, but they did not appear to have many in stock at the present time. I prefer a unit with a built in tuner.

With little or no warning, my Hard-drive DVD-Recorder/burner died tonight. I have had it since 2007. There is still gobs of stuff on the hard-drive that I never burned. The tuner just went out, quit working. What do I do now? Today's units don't seem to have built in tuner's? How do they work??? Can someone tell me? Thanks. Won't be able to get the new version of THE SON OF THE SHEIK tomorrow night on this unit.

I can't believe that I could not find one domestic Lobby-card or Poster for THE FRESHMAN that wasn't a postage stamp size graphic. This foreign release Trade Ad shows that the film was distributed in some countries by Paramount, rather than Pathe. In America it was Harold's final feature for Pathe' as He signed a new distributors deal with Paramount pictures, continuing to produce his films independently. This allowed him to spend as much time as He needed on each and every release. *Harold Lloyd-THE FRESHMAN (1925)*

Wendy, Here is a rare color George O' Brien Lobby-card for you. I think this film is from 1926. Seems like George played a boxer numerous times.

Wendy, More extraordinary uniforms here. I sure wish that I could be at the screening of the fully reastored *THE BIG PARADE* tomorrow in LA.at AMPAS. Kevin Brownlow hosting. *Pola Negri-"The White Empress"*

Wendy, Hmm, Looks like this might be from *"Planet Of The Lobby Monkey's?"* *Margaret Livingston and Helper*

*Brigitte Helm-"Blonde Berlin"*

Bronxi,

Wendy, *Alice Joyce-"Regal Lady"*

Scottman, It's great that you got to see this live. Please report back on *THE BIG PARADE* screening next week. See if you can get any information on when we might possibly be seeing the new restoration on TCM. Hopefully, Kevin Brownlow will know something. I am concerned about the Carl Davis score being way out of synch with the new version. Boy the Summer is just flying by. I guess they skipped 1924 since the Lincoln fragments covered that year?

This was completely unexpected. Although it was clear that he had been struggling with his health for the past several months of intros.Hopefully, everything turns out well for him and he makes a full recovery. I wonder if Bill Irwin will return to host Silent Sunday Nights. Irwin used to be the host of the program up until about 1999.

*DON JUAN* is now on DVD-R from Warner Archive. So where was the little 10 second plug after the broadcast and before the final Robert Osborne comments showing the cover that we have seen on other recent WA releases? It wasn't there. How are people supposed to know that it has been released? Disppointing, because they had a chance to inform people about the DVD-R and failed to do so.

Maybe so, but DON JUAN is a much, much better movie than THE JAZZ SINGER. Anyway, I don't really care all that much for Jolson. Frankly on screen He gives me the Willies. Can barely stand the guy.

*DON JUAN* is very much a Silent film. The Vita-phone score is magnifcent, but it's likely that it played many places as a straight Silent with live music. Very few theaters would have been wired for Vitaphone in 1926. This is one of my favorites and if you haven't seen it before tonight, it will be one of your favorites too. Awesome supporting cast including briefly Myrna Loy, Phyllis Haver and Helene Costello. Estelle Taylor is unspeakably evil as Lucrezia Borgia. A young Mary Astor is a true knockout as the Lady Adrianna. There is also Jane Winton as the Donna Isobel. One of John Barrymore's very best Silents.

Bronxi, Thanks. I hope that you did record *THE SHEIK the other night*, because it turned out to be a new version from David Shepard's Film Preservation Associates*.+ While I am not normally a big fan of Eric Beheim, I watched this last night and thought his music score was extremely well done. The cue's were very well chosen and highly authentic. Down to the song Rudy sings, which was his own favorite tune. Even if he didn't really cherish this movie. The music was far and away the best I have heard with this film. I had not seen this movie in along time and it was much better than I had remembered. The rich restored tinting and toning effects were beautiful. *SON OF THE SHEIK+* airing on the 21st will be a new transfer as well. I just whish TCM had run the more recent transfer of *THE THIEF OF BAGDAD.* The current Kino DVD which was actually released by in 2004 has a Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra score. Not the Gaylord Carter Theater Organ score. I think that they goofed. *"The scores on both SHEIK films have been revised and re-recorded (like all electronics, music sampling keeps improving but unlike other electronics, it doesn't get cheaper). The image on THE SON OF THE SHEIK has been given extensive digital clean-up. It looks a lot less like a sow's ear but still would not be confused with a silk purse. Yes, the image on THE SHEIK is slightly soft. The only two surviving 35mm A-negative elements were a stretch-printed version (yuck) and a nitrate contact print struck in 1940 when the original negative was somewhat shrunken, so the contact was imperfect. The source print is b&w but a cutting continuity gave us the tinting log. No new DVD is planned at this time.* *Many thanks to TCM; its fees make it possible to sometimes improve earlier versions of some of our films.* *David Shepard*

*Lois Wilson Fashion Shoot 1926*