ahhh, Franklin Pangborn, our favorite hotel desk clerk. I especially liked his brief appearance in My Man Godfrey, playing the judge of a scavenger hunt who asks Godfrey if he can feel his whiskers to be sure they're real. His flurry of fingertips almost touches the whiskers before he decides to give the benefit of the doubt.

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They're showing So Young, So Bad!!!! Rita Moreno gets shorn! Anne Francis talks tough! A bunny gets stomped to death!

I saw this movie in the early 70s, but couldn't find any reference to it for years before the internets -- and it's remained pretty much unfindable. I am totally bugging everybody I know with cable to grab this for me.

Thanks for the heads-up!

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Stan Laurel's silent short the Soilers, which consists almost entirely of an extended fist-fight between Laurel and the villain, while a cute little proto-Randy Jones gay cowboy flounces in and out, completely ignoring the violence. It's one of my favorite movies ever. Don't reveal the shocking twist ending!

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It did make Page 24 of the book, and is Netflixable (The Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy, Volume 6)

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All I can say is, someone for damn sure better be archiving these for those of us who don’t get TCM!

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Let's make it a Gay Movie Night!

You have dozens of area friends, shirley one of them has TCM!

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Yes we can order up a hustler and do the Madison!

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Hmmm.... I need to chat with Dan :)

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Thanks Thor! Lots of gems here, but I'm also happy because I've always wanted to see "Wonder Bar," and have always managed to miss it whenever it was screened at Film Forum.

I have a copy of "Screened Out" somewhere in my "I'll get around to reading this book one of these days" pile, but I did get through Barrios' prior book cover to cover, a great history of early movie musicals called "A Song in the Dark," which inspired a series at (unsurprisingly enough), Film Forum back in the day.....

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Thanks for the reminder! I've wanted to see "Staircase" and "The Fox" again, ever since seeing them on my local PBS station nearly 15 years ago. I was pretty young back then, and I don't think I "got" it, nor did I realize I was watching films that weren't really publicly available.

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Thanks, I posted about this, and quoted you.

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Damn! I don't have cable. :(

Thanks for the links!

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Thanks for the props to my good friend David!

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Damn it, and I don't have TCM!!! ;_; I admit, my interest is piqued!

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Hi there, please excuse this request! I live in the Uk and am doing my university dissertation on gay silent cinema. Sadly TCM didn't show these films in the UK. Would anyone happen to have such a thing as a copy of Algie The Miner they could let me borrow or have? I am hoping somebody taped it and can do a copy or something like that. I'm really sorry for the request, but any help would be much appreciated. I can be emailed at slbbooksmusicfilm@yahoo.co.uk

Many thanks, Shane Brown

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Hi Shane,

I watched a lot of these, but only saved a couple, and not that one.

You should also contact/friend danbearnyc, moroccomole (Alonso Duralde, author of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men), as well as annoyinghandle who originally posted about it. I know Dan and Alonso recorded many of them, and may have saved them, and may be able to make a copy for you -- admittedly, a lot of ifs.

And DVDs burned on "Region 1" DVD recorders here may not play on your DVD players there, although if you're handy with a computer, some computers will play DVDs from different regions. Or perhaps you know someone with a no/all region DVD player.

You should click on the "full schedule here" link above, the full schedule is still online (you'll need Adobe Acrobat). There were other silent films, including an English one with Beatrice Lillie.

If you click on the "Calendar" or "Archive" link on people's LJs, you'll get a calendar listing of their past posts -- you should go back and read the posts made around the same time as this one for the LJers listed above.

You can contact those LJers with a comment the same way you did me, or some LJers list their e-mail addresses or personal websites on their profile ("User Info") page, and check at the bottom of the profile page -- if it's a "Paid Account" you can also write them c/o their livejournal address -- accountname@livejournal.com.

I hope you also know about Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour>, a silent art film made in the 50's. I have a copy of this, (somewhere!), although I'd probably have to get Dan's help (a friend of mine) to make a copy. But it's a famous film, and if you aren't already familiar with it, the BFI and other film archives there probably have a copy.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

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Thanks for taking the time to get back to me, it is much appreciated. Thankfully multi-region DVD players are very common in the Uk, so we don't have as much of a problem with the coding issue as I think you probably have in America. Un Chant D'Amour is...different! lol My essay will finish at 1930 though (it actually covers a couple of talkies as well as 1930 is the cut off point.) At the moment I am working with Different From The Others, Michael, Sex In Chains (if only it was as exciting at the title!), Parisian Love, various silent Hitchcock films + Murder, A Florida Enchantment (if I can track down a copy), The Soilers and maybe Chaney's The Unknown (for the relationship between Chaney and his assistant). Exit Smiling would be useful to have as would The Monster - neither of which I know at all. I shall contact the people you mention over the next couple of days. I'm in a show tonight so have to go out in a bit. Such a pity that TCM didn't show those films over here, my poor DVD recorder would have worked overtime! We have had a couple of gay seasons on British TV over the past month or so due to the 40th anniversary of the legalisation of male homosexuality but the films shown have been pretty run of the mill stuff that you would expect - although I did manage to record Advise And Consent last night which isn't out on DVD over here and I'd never got around to importing.

Thanks again for the message and I'm sure we'll speak again soon.

Take care

Shane

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