Notices by Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social), page 4

- Safety Last (1923): Harrold Lloyd's most recognizable feature. Silent. Slower than modern audiences expect, but still worth seeing.

- International Crime (1938): The Shadow! (again!) But not really! (again!) My favorite of The Shadow feature films (but not as good as the serials.)

- The Phantom Empire (1935): Gene Autry sings as bankers try to steal his ranch, and they discover an underground city full of robots!

- Detour (1945): One of the best Poverty Row films ever. Recently re-released in HD for the first time. It's beautiful, it's the classic tale of an unreliable narrator in a bad situation that keeps getting worse.

- The Little Shop of Horrors (1950): Another low budget Corman horror comedy. It's funny, it's horrific. I like it.

- The Mark of Zorro (1920):

Zorro! It's silent! It's pretty good.

- Robin Hood (1922):
It's Robin Hood! It's Douglas Fairbanks! It's Silent! It's pretty good!

- The General (1927): The best silent movie ever made, IMO. It's the story of the great train robbery (an event that happened in my home town during the US Civil War.

- Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973): Sex kills! At least, it does in this movie, where everyone is topless all the time.

- Dick Tracy (1945): A feature film adaptation of Dick Tracy, really just more of a mild detective adventure. Not bad, just not remarkable.

- House on Haunted Hill (1959): Locked room horror in a haunted house. What's real? What isn't? It's kind of silly, but I enjoy it.

- Beat the Devil (1953):
Bogart stars in a send up of the kind of noir picture he made famous. I think it's a really great film, but it flopped at the time.

- Cat-Women of the Moon (1953): A secret society of Women on the Moon! With Mind Control! It's a decent movie.

- Attack of the 50 foot Woman (1958) Space Radiation make a giant woman. It's not very good! It is super silly!

- Speak Easily (1932):
Buster Keaton in a talkie! He's trying to fund a play. Everyone wants to sleep with him. It's silly. It's fun.

- A Bucket of Blood (1959):
A cheap, cheap, cheap horror film. Roger Corman directs. A murderer disguises himself as an artist. It's not bad.

- King Solomon's Mines (1937):
White people go on a safari. They find an African tribe and get stuck in an ancient mine and or volcano. Honestly not bad.

- British Intelligence (1940): mediocre spy film with Borris Karloff. Double cross on double cross. Not bad, just not good.

- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948): A guy wants to be a novelist. A girl wants to run away. They meet up on a texas highway, move to Brooklyn, meet a gangster, and buy some animatronic elephants, or something. A cute, silly romcom.

- The Stranger (1946): Orson Welles directs and stars in this movie about a former nazi hiding out in Connecticut. It's an absolute classic. Just a very good movie.

- Teenagers From Outerspace (1959): ... Teenagers! From! Outerspace! There's a Lobster Monster! There's romance! There's socks OVER shoes. It's not good, but it's my favorite.

- No Time For Sergeants (1955): A TV movie (not the movie movie that came later), only available in pretty low quality, Andy Griffith joins the army, and gives his sergeant an aww shucks hard time. Really funny, but low quality print only.

- Lady Gangster (1942): Lady robs a bank, goes to Jail. Shenanigans ensue. B- I could live without it.

- Danger on Wheels (1940): A man drives a car dangerously. He races. There's a double cross. It's okay.

- Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938): Basically Sherlock Holmes fights the Klan? Except it's not Holmes, and the Klan has a bedazzled snake logo. It's good, but feels like an early film.

- Shoot to kill (1947): AKA Police Reporter. A former gangster is framed for murder. His wife and a reporter try to clear him. Clumsy, but not bad.

- Impact (1949): Noir, drama. Man survives murder attempt, drama ensues. Mostly a courtroom drama. Pretty okay.

- Cause for Alarm (1951): A sick man terrorizes his wife, dies. The wife commits several crimes in an attempt to not get blamed for her husband's death. Surprisingly good.

- Quicksand (1950): A stone classic. One of the all time great Noir films. A man steals $20 to impress a lady, and gets mired in metaphorical quicksand.

Will continue after lunch

- The Front Page (1931): The same story as His Girl Friday, but without a woman in the lead, so even darker. I liked it, but many others did not.

- Crime Inc. (1945): A man fights the mob from the newspaper! It's a decent movie. Not great, but good enough.

- Roar of the Press (1941) a pseudo-sequel to The Front Page, except not as well made, and a little less dark.

- My Favorite Brunette (1947): Bob hope sends up Sam Spade hardboilers. Excellent.

@Miredly I'll keep thinking on it.

"Artsy" is kind of a vague target to hit, but I'll see what I can do.

Just got my film capture rig set up. I'm a few days late, but everything looks like it is working a treat!

Sound is clear and not distorted. Picture is Astoundingly sharp.

More photos in my next post.

You remember in the Darkwing Duck theme song when they say "When there's trouble you call DW"?

I always thought it was supposed to say "Trouble-U" like there was a special U kind of trouble.

I finished the last of my incidental holiday shopping, so I'm done with buying things with the holidays as an excuse.

@js0000 Here's one that we did a few years ago: https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/d7441d14-db0d-47b3-a130-3a234c109ba9

I think it'd be great to see something out of any of the films I presented, or basically anything else from that director.

I am personally more interested in longer works at this time, but these particular shorts have a significance that is often overlooked, and I would love to put together a small collection of films with new scores from that pre-1910 era.