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Great pix of Lily Damita and Ana May Wong, two of my favorites!

Fun stuff! Thanks! A Charles Brown Christmas:

> JonasEB wrote: "In the 1920s, Japanese cinema was increasingly dedicated to pursuing the Hollywood production model & cinematic form and by the time of Ozu, Shimizu, Naruse and their class..." Very true, I just watched Mikio Naruse's silent film STREET WITHOUT END (1934) and it even had a brief sequence in a movie theater where two of the characters were watching Mariam Hopkins and Maurice Chevalier in THE SMILING LIEUTENANT!

I can't imagine 20th Century Fox making HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943) in black & white, it works so well in Technicolor.

> drednm wrote: "what did you think of The Trespasser ?" I haven't watched all of it yet, but the print looks decent and it is refreshing to see some camera movement in a 1929 talkie. I hope that it does not turn out to be as bad as THE VALIANT (1929). For a 60 minute film it sure felt like it took two hours to run.

More Elvis Christmas style! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXuDvbjtO_s

I was very pleased with the print quality of SPANISH EARTH, it looked way better than the previous airing.

I haven't seen enough of the Clark & McCullough shorts, so I really couldn't say. Sorry, I know that's not much help!

Christmas in Puerto Rico:

Jenks (Tex) Carman:

> musicalnovelty wrote, " It's not Christmas-related, but here's one of my favorites. It came out in 1970 in England and was a big hit. When it finally was released in America in 1972 it went nowhere (but it sold at least ONE 45...to me...and of course I still have it!) That was a really catchy tune, too bad it didn't chart well here. I too am a fan of Ms. Hopkin. Here's another beautiful performance by her:

A Christmas carol from Mexico, Feliz Navidad!

Fab Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT8Z3usCkFg&feature=related

A Christmas carol from Mary Hopkin:

Sad to hear that it is still MIA. I've read about it and it sounds like it was pretty good film. Oh well, maybe it will still turn up... Thanks for posting the Renee Adoree poster, it's quite nice.

According to silentera.com, THE ROUGH RIDERS exists in the holdings of MOMA. The LOC has a fragmented copy. Hopefully it has been preserved on safety film.

Son House: Love that National tri-cone guitar!

Another tambourine song... Lemon Pipers:

> swithin wrote "The 1936 Showboat directed by James Whale is the greatest filmed musical of all time!" I agree, it is one of my favorite musicals.

> Fred C. Dobbs wrote: "I've tried to find the key person behind this and the other early Universal horror films, and it seems to be Carl Laemmle as Producer and later as "presenter", which often means "Executive Producer" or "Studio Boss". Junior Laemmle was in charge of production at Universal until he and his dad ("Uncle Carl") were ousted from Universal in 1936. Carl put Junior in charge of Production in 1928 as a 20th birthday present. He was responsible for several major hits at Universal. Junior's major mistake was trying to compete head on with MGM and Paramount, in terms of A picture production. In doing this, too much money was spent on bad pictures, SUTTER'S GOLD being the final straw. Unlike Columbia pictures, which slowly increased their A picture production in the '30s and kept churning out "bread and butter" programmers, Universal increased their A picture production at the expense of their programmers. With too much money hemorrhaging out, they were ousted by financier, J. Cheever Cowdin in 1936. Junior's last successful film was SHOWBOAT.

HIGH PRESSURE is a fun movie, really enjoyable.

I am so glad that TCM is able to show this one. I last saw it on cable in the late 1980s and haven't seen it listed on TV since. Kudos TCM!

I am really looking forward to this one. I had heard of this film before, and was very happy to see that TCM was going to show it. I've seen other Japanese silents by Ozu and Naruse, so this will be quite a treat.

Ms. Day's voice is still as good as ever. Among my favorite early Bing Crosby songs is this one:

Speaking of adventure... "Calypso"