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Here are some rare photos of Barbara Bennett and other actresses: http://www.eastman.org/ar/strip17/htmlsrc/muray_sld00008.html

Which promo music? They change it sometimes. Are you talking about the music that is on the intro to some of the films, along with the New York subway crossing a bridge at sunrise?

I think I missed it, but I've got a backlog of tapes to look at. Here's a preview of the film: Laura LaPlante as a man in ?Man of the Moment?: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?o_cid=mediaroomlink&cid=180578

Keep on trying. Sometimes it works. Welcome aboard.

I have my list in a Word document. It was compiled by the most brilliant minds on the TCM boards. I am merely the Keeper Of The List.

Most asked-about movies: ?On Borrowed Time? ? Barrymore with death in tree http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031754/ ?For Heaven?s Sake? (child waiting to be born) ?The Bluebird? with Shirley Temple (children waiting to be born) ?My Six Loves? (lady finds a bunch of kids) ?If a Man Answers? (dog training manual used to train husband) ?You Never Can Tell? (man dog, lady horse) ?Bird of Paradise? (lady jumps in volcano) ?Tales of Manhattan? (stories about many people owning the same old coat) ?Kiss of Death? (man pushes old woman in wheelchair down flight of stairs) ?It Grows on Trees? (money growing on trees) "Once Upon A Time" (boy with dancing caterpillar) All-Dog movie shorts (The MGM Dogville series produced from 1929-31. Titles: Hot Dog (29); College Hounds (29); So Quiet on the Canine Front (30); The Big Dog House (30); Dogway Melody (30); The Dogville Murder Case (?Who Killed Rover?) (31); Love Tailss of Morocco (31); Two Barks Brothers (31); Trader Hound (31).) (Dogville list by talkietime.)

Is this it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gQOeLbhQqU There is a log-sitting scene about 5 minutes into this film clip.

It?s a funny thing. About 50 years ago, I remember that all the movies and songs were easy for me to hear and understand. But now everything is mumbled. What ever happened to good ol? sound tracks and clear sound?

Most asked-about movies: All-Dog movie shorts (The MGM Dogville series produced from 1929-31. Titles: Hot Dog (29); College Hounds (29); So Quiet on the Canine Front (30); The Big Dog House (30); Dogway Melody (30); The Dogville Murder Case (?Who Killed Rover?) (31); Love Tailss of Morocco (31); Two Barks Brothers (31); Trader Hound (31).) (Dogville list by talkietime.) ?On Borrowed Time? ? Barrymore with death in tree ?For Heaven?s Sake? (child waiting to be born) ?The Bluebird? with Shirley Temple (children waiting to be born) ?My Six Loves? (lady finds a bunch of kids) ?If a Man Answers? (dog training manual used to train husband) ?You Never Can Tell? (man dog, lady horse) ?Bird of Paradise? (lady jumps in volcano) ?Tales of Manhattan? (stories about many people owning the same old coat) ?Kiss of Death? (man pushes old woman in wheelchair down flight of stairs) ?It Grows on Trees? (money growing on trees) "Once Upon A Time" (boy with dancing caterpillar)

List of DeForest Phonofilms: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208418/

Thanks! More early sound films: http://www.redhotjazz.com/kingofjazz.html

Thanks for the information! Some early sound Phonofilms: http://www.redhotjazz.com/berniephonofilm.html History of Phonofilms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonofilm Looks like Hollywood could have had full length optical sound films as early as 1920 if they wanted it.

Dickson Experimental Sound Film, 1894: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_X3-EZz7Y&mode=related&search= DeForest Phono-Film, Eddie Cantor singing, 1923: Calvin Coolidge, 1924 DeForest Phono-Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq3FvmM5gss Early pre-movie animated stills: Animated Muybridge stills, 1878:

Does anyone here know what was the first shound film (feature or short) that used an optical sound track that was on the same film as the pictures? This would have been the first perfectly synchronized sound film. Vitaphone used a semi-synchronized phonograph disk, which wasn't always perfectly synchronized during the film's playback, since the early phono players were not linked up to the early movie projectors by mechanical means. This was what was made fun of in the movie "Singing In the Rain", the fact that most showings of early Vitaphone films were not very well synchronized. Today we have them synchronized with an optical track because they have been perfectly synchronized during modern dubbing, but they weren't perfectly synchronized in theaters originally.

>Complaint was that there wasn't an Asian actor playing Chan. Traditional Chinese theater still has men playing the roles of women, such as in theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. I don't hear the Asican community complaining about that.

How about this film. The creatured crawled up buildings and the army used bazookas to shoot it down.

>show its leading man, arms out in a crooner's pose, only in silhouette? Because there's an ugly stereotype under wraps here, that's why. Do a Google image search for "The Jazz Singer" and you'll see the original poster, which is not in silhouette. http://images.google.com/images?q=TheJazzSinger&hl=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=2

Paul Robeson in ?Song of Freedom?, 1936 (made in England): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgH7HMTRL0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73mQp20nXbk http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028282/

I'm glad I could help. Here's Josephine Baker in the French film "Zou Zou": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZ9b-uFyBs

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>The Fountainhead works as a silent movie. I discovered this the last time TCM broadcast the movie. I tuned to TCM about 3:00 a.m. and The Fountainhead was on and I did not want to turn up the sound too loud and disturb sleepers. So, I left the sound OFF and noticed (pretty quickly) Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas and even Kent Smith gesticulating dramatically and posing their bodies dramatically and moving their faces about dramatically and moving their lips like they were talking up a storm. Those characters appeared to talk like there was no tomorrow, but I heard no sounds! All of the gestures and poses and mugging and yapping was exactly like the sort of presentation I have noted for silent films. Lol, I think that?s great. I?ll do that the next time the film is on TCM, and I?ll make up my own story line. Maybe TCM can add a new sound track to the film, sort of a ?Viewer?s Cut?. Or, perhaps do an Italian language dub, or maybe just a few title cards, such as: ?Gosh, Howard, that?s the ugliest building I?ve ever seen!? And... ?I blew up that building because it was my worst design yet!? During the trial sequence we can have this title card: ?The viewers have spoken! We must turn this into a silent film!? We can then insert a few scenes from ?12 Angry Men? and have them discussing the outlandish original script of this film and how they must vote to turn this into a silent movie.

Others disagree with you. The film script was silly and downright stupid, especially the part where the girl loves one guy and marries a guy she hates just to prove some weird idea that she is an individual with rights and can do stupid things if she wants to. The audience was abused with this film. Audiences paid to see an entertaining film, but we were given stupid trash.