Starter of this subject: Ted Hering
Last post in this subject: 2/26/2005
Messages in this subject: 2
| Ted Hering | 2/26/2005 2 replies |
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"Official" movie history credits "The Jazz Singer" as the first sound movie (1927), but Lee DeForest was making musical and talking shorts as early as 1922! Some of these gems have been issued on a 2-DVD set called "First Sound Of Movies," published through Inkwell Images.
Each disc has about an hour total of documentary and complete shorts, which include several soon-to-be radio stars, like Eddie Cantor, Ben Bernie, and Jack Pearl. The rest of the clips feature mostly vaudeville performers, with great names like Eubie Blake, Weber and Fields, and Monroe Silver ("Cohen on the Telephone"). There are even a couple of non-performers in documentary-type talkies: Calvin Coolidge, and George Bernard Shaw! It's a real trip through the old time machine! The discs aren't cheap, though. I paid $40 for the box set.
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| ed kienzler | 2/26/2005 1 replies |
| Ted, something just like that I have found on the tail end of some DVD's is old radio shows at the end of the movies and you can check out many of these 1930ish and '40ish movies at your local library not all those movies but some I wish I had the name to many of them---sorry |
| Bob Flood | 3/1/2005 0 replies |
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We have a Half Price Books and Records here in Dallas and I purchased a video/DVD from TREELINE Entertainment. It is a collection of 100 Radio to TV episodes featuring the likes of Jack Webb in "Dragnet", The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett, Bulldog Drummond, Boston Blackie, Mr and Mrs North, Richard Diamond, The Great Gildersleeve, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, and many others. The cost was $21.45 with tax and I have really enjoyed them.
I think several companies are starting to discover the classic entertainment of yesteryear i |