(No, this is not the real
title of the follow-up to the successful
DVD release first mentioned in this
post from November 2012. I just
wanted to see if I could make a Croissandwich come out of Stacia’s nose.)
Silent film historian-accompanist
Ben Model announced on
Facebook the other day that Volume 2 of
Accidentally Preserved, a sequel to
a DVD release of silent film rarities that
I
reviewed on the blog in June of this year, will be released
sometime in January 2014.
I informed him
that I’d talk up the project on the blog as soon as the word came down when he
would start passing around the hat on Kickstarter.
He then told me that Kickstartering this bad boy would not
be necessary: because the first disc sold so well on Amazon and other venues
where he offered up the DVD—plus there was a bit of fundage left over from the
first open guitar case at Kickstarter—he had more than enough capital for the
January 2014 release.
The thing is: I
should have known this, because I mentioned it in
this
post from July—which proves that my memory isn’t what it used to be (that
or I need to read my blog more).
I blame
this influx of dementia on my parents, by the way, who are determined to drag
me kicking and screaming with them on their trip to Fogeyville, USA.
(Their television ritual now involves
watching
Wheel of Fortune and
Jeopardy in the evenings.
Sadly, medical science has yet to find a
cure.)
So do I have the skinny on what to expect on Volume 2?
Funny you should ask that—one of the gems
scheduled is a Lloyd Hamilton comedy entitled
Papa’s Boy (1927), which to me would be incentive enough to
purchase the DVD, since I am a huge fan of this silent comedian.
There are also comedies from Charley Chase
clones Neely Edwards (a 1927 Bluebird comedy entitled
The Little Pest which also features frequent Three Stooges player
Bud Jamison) and Henry Murdock (1927’s
Cook,
Papa, Cook), as well as Bobby Vernon (1920’s
Why Men Go Wild), with whom I recently became familiar after
purchasing
an Alpha Video DVD of some of his comedy shorts from
Oldies.com.
There is also a 1924 “Telephone
Girls” two-reeler featuring Alberta Vaughn entitled
Sherlock’s Home; the “Telephone Girls” was a series produced by FBO
(Film Booking Offices of America) in 1924 which featured Vaughn as “Gladys
Murgatroyd”—
Home also has a brief
cameo from another unsung female funster, Gale Henry.
And for those of you who don’t like comedy…there’s
sport
cartoons.
A couple of animated entries
from director Otto Messmer and producer Pat Sullivan that feature Charlie
Chaplin (1919’s
Charlie on the Farm)
and Felix the Cat (1927’s
Whys and
Otherwise).
Two oddities round out
the collection: a 1925 public service announcement (animated by Dick Huemer)
for Christmas Seals and a 1928 cautionary tale entitled
How Jimmy Won the Game, which preaches of the dangers of mixing
America’s pastime with blasting caps.
As
with Volume 1 of
Accidentally Preserved, many of the shorts in this collection
constitute the only known existing prints of these valuable films.
So keep an eye peeled at Amazon for a listing of this
release…and if I get additional information in the meantime I’ll be certain to
slap it up here on the blog.
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