Any silent film-themed 2003 calendars?
flatheadmt
any calendars. I thought it might be possible that a Chaplin, Metropolis,
L&H.. etc. themed calendar could be available.
Thanks,
Norm
Bruce Calvert
<ap4a86$1he2$1...@feed.centurytel.net>, flatheadmt stated...
>
>I guess the subject field says it all... just wondering if anyone knows of
>any calendars. I thought it might be possible that a Chaplin, Metropolis,
>L&H.. etc. themed calendar could be available.
Here is a Laurel & Hardy calendar:
http://secure2.venus.co.uk/bluemask2/calendar_laurel&hardy.html#142
Bruce Calvert
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Visit the Silent Film Still Archive
http://home.attbi.com/~silentfilm
Rev. J. Toad
Damn... if there's a Metropolis calendar out there, sign me up!
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TTuerff
<< Damn... if there's a Metropolis calendar out there, sign me up! >>
Well, as long as we're talking fantasy calendars, how about:
The Annette Kellerman "I Think She's Naked" Calendar
The "London After Midnight" 'Pretty Much All the Pictures of Chaney We Have'
Calendar
The "Lost Silents" Calendar (twelve pages of blank space with the titles of a
missing film at the bottom of the page)
The "Classic Dialogue Cards" calendar -- 12 totally random dialogue cards that,
when read together, make a really hilarious story
"Fat Guys of the Silent Screen" calendar
"Bunny of the Month" Calendar--no, not Playboy, just 12 really ghastly pictures
of John Bunny
"Totally Forgotten Stars of the Silent Screen" -- people so forgotten nobody
knows WHO they are--not even the people in this newsgroup!
Feel free to add your own...
R H Draney
says...
You asked for it:
"Rosa Rio Remembers" -- your favorite silent moments and the public-domain
musical cues they inspired....
"2003: A German Expressionist View" -- run of the mill stills that you've seen a
thousand times before, but February alone has 53 days....
"Snitz's World" -- a celebration of the many roles of everyone's favorite
supporting character....
"Kiss the Birdie" -- twelve breathtaking prints of silent stars, caught in the
act of kissing birds....
"Daughters of Naldi Commemorative Edition" -- this one has it all: cigarette
holders, lapdogs, faux fox paws, grapes....
(Listen, if anybody puts out a decent Mabel Normand calendar, it's on my office
wall in a flash!)....r
Rev. J. Toad
wrote:
>(Listen, if anybody puts out a decent Mabel Normand calendar, it's on my office
>wall in a flash!)....r
Ditto Lillian Gish for me.
William Ferry
--
Yours for bigger and better silents,
Bill Ferry
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flatheadmt
Norm of MT
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Rodney Sauer
suggest it be a fund-raiser for some worthy film restoration project.
There is calendar making software available that lays out the
month-tables and drops in standard holidays and whatnot. We would add
the birthdays of silent film stars and the dates of important film
conventions. There are a number of collectors of film stills on the
group. We get thirteen collectors to each supply one high-resolution
scan of a favorite film publicity still. One coordinator makes sure that
they aren't all the same nude picture of Louise Brooks. Stars will be
assigned to their birth month where possible (if Ogle and Snitz are born
in the same month we'll need to shift one), or to a seasonable spot
(Lillian on the ice floe goes in January, with apologies to the
antipodeans).
I would propose -- at least for the first year -- doing it in black and
white at a quick-print shop where it can be run off in batches of 20 or
so, so the person fronting the cash doesn't get stuck with boxes of
unsold calendars (nothing loses value so fast). I see that Kinko's
offers calendars "starting at $8.99" for color, but by shopping around
we can probably get it lower than this. This will not be high-end glossy
art-magazine quality, but I doubt any of us is willing to invest several
hundred dollars upfront when we don't know what the demand will be. I
propose black and white, with either a stapled binding or perhaps spiral
binding if it's not too expensive. In the future we could consider some
pages -- sheet music fronts and Photoplay magazine covers -- in color.
I'll need to get an estimate on production costs, but I'd like to keep
it to $12 per calendar plus a few dollars for shipping, with proceeds to
go to UCLA's restoration of THE TIME LOCK SAFE restoration project (if
they still need some money for that, I never heard a final report).
I'm willing to offer a nice publicity shot of Mabel Normand towards the
effort, or the Valentino/Alice Terry still that we used on CINEMA.
Although I don't have calendar software I do have some experience with
production and printing that I'm willing to put towards the cause. It
would need to be done fairly rapidly, as the time for buying new
calendars is approaching.
If anyone has a still from THE TIME LOCK SAFE, let me know. And if
anyone has a concatenated list of birthdays of major silent film stars,
and FIRM dates for Cinecon, Cinevent, and Cinewhatnot for 2003 that
would be a great help.
Rodney Sauer
rod...@mont-alto.com
The Mont Alto Ragtime and Tango Orchestra
and The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
http://www.mont-alto.com/
Bruce Calvert
I'm willing to help. Every year, we have calendars made at Kinko's with the
kids' pictures for their grandparents. I thought that they were more expensive
than you mentioned, but we always get color calendars, which might be more
expensive.
You are welcome to any photos on my website for the calendar.
G. Sample
would definately purchase one.
Gail
flatheadmt
Norm
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Stephen Cooke
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Rodney Sauer wrote:
> There is really no reason a.m.s. can't do a silent film calendar. I
> suggest it be a fund-raiser for some worthy film restoration project.
I have a stunning Paramount release book from 1926, with some beautiful
full-colour art for films like It, The Wedding March and A Kiss in a Taxi
among others (I don't have it handy, so I can't list 'em all off the top
of my head). Of course, there may still be an issue of copyright with
these images, which is a darn shame, but it's one of the nicest
film-related things I own.
Also, a calendar from interesting silent film slides is a possibility, if
someone knows how to get good scans off of them.
I have a friend who puts out a Sherlock Holmes calendar every year, using
the Sidney Paget artwork and filling in dates from the books, whenever
possible. It seems like a relatively easy thing to do.
swac
Brent Walker
January - Dick Sutherland
February - Kalla Pasha
March - Louis Wolheim
April - Frank Hayes
May - Dot Farley
June - Kit Guard
July - Louise Emmons
August - Noah Young
September - Ben Turpin
October - Alice Belcher
November - Frank Austin
December - Robert Kortman
(all extreme close-ups, naturally)
Brent Walker
Frederica
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> swac
I have absolutely nothing to bring to the table on this issue, except for my
support and a hint...a very big hint...that Our Beloved Preceptress should
be prominently represented.
Frederica
Rodney Sauer
I did receive a lovely scan of "the bite" from BLOOD AND SAND, but I
will need to get permission from the lovely woman who sent it to me.
RobtMcKay
>There is really no reason a.m.s. can't do a silent film calendar. I
>suggest it be a fund-raiser for some worthy film restoration project
I've got hundreds of vintage original 8x10 portraits of silent film players -
including one circa 1922 of Miss Naldi wearing little more than a feathered boa
and her birthday suit.
If you guys can get together a list of 20-25 names of interest, I'd be happy to
see what I've got and make some scans of same.
Rob McKay
Jenny Paxson
Here's a nice movie poster calendar, no silents, but some classics:
http://www....@tushita.com/Kalender-index/Kalender03/movie_posters.htm
The same company offers some other movie related calendars. Celluloid
Heroes has Buster Keaton:
http://www....@tushita.com/Kalender-index/Kalender04/celluloid_heroes.htm
Then there is Movie Queens:
http://www....@tushita.com/Kalender-index/Kalender04/movie_queens.htm
and my fave, Cinemania, with Chaplin from Modern Times, GWTW, Singin'
In the Rain, Chico Marx, Tarzan and others. I picked up a copy of this
on at one of the shops in the Hollywood and Highland Complex when we
were in LA for Cinecon.
http://www....@tushita.com/Kalender-index/Kalender04/cinemania_gross.htm
The web site also offers calendars of Romy Schneider and Audrey
Hepburn.
Jenny Paxson
Robert Lipton
Rodney Sauer wrote:
Damn! I like it. I would buy several.... good Christimas gifts.
Bob
Frederica
"RobtMcKay" <robt...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I've got hundreds of vintage original 8x10 portraits of silent film
players -
> including one circa 1922 of Miss Naldi wearing little more than a
feathered boa
> and her birthday suit.
Hot puppies. Give the man a cigar. I'm in for five or six of these babies
myself.
Frederica
James Roots
> Rodney wrote:
>
>>There is really no reason a.m.s. can't do a silent film calendar. I
>>suggest it be a fund-raiser for some worthy film restoration project
You guys are going about this all the wrong way. If you want to
make a real AMS calendar, then make it a real AMS calendar.
Mr. January -- Jon Mirsalis, seductively sprawled over his
piano with tubes of toxins strategically placed over the
naughty bits of his birthday suit.
Ms. February -- Frederica Merrivale, swathed in grapes and
feather boas on her fainting couch.
Mr. March -- George Shelps, glowering in a room full of
"ONE WAY" signs (pointing to the right, of course).
Ms. April -- Susan Hall, spearing Rodney Sauer with a
lethally-sharpened violin bow.
I leave it to others to complete this thread...
Jim
(Mr. October)
woolrich
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Eric Stott
James Roots wrote:
Of course Mr. Roberts would be the double page spread- for heighth.
Eric Stott
Donna Hill
> There is really no reason a.m.s. can't do a silent film calendar. I
> suggest it be a fund-raiser for some worthy film restoration project.
>
> group. We get thirteen collectors to each supply one high-resolution
> scan of a favorite film publicity still.
I'll gladly contribute a nice Valentino for the cause! Film still or
portrait, perhaps a nice steamy shot with Nita would do the trick,
I've got a lolapolooza!
Donna Hill
Tom Tuerff
robt...@aol.com (RobtMcKay) wrote:
Guys and gals: I like this idea as well, however, as a member of the
advertising community I would only warn that you might, even for a
fundraising cause, have to get permission from certain people's estates
to use the pictures of various people.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS: Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy or any of the
BIG names that we know to be protected. Most of these names are
protected by a lawyer named Roger Richmond who is extremely protective
of these copyrighted faces. As he should be, but still. I had ONE
dealing with this guy (trying to license a measly picture of Chaplin
from the Gold Rush for a restaurant print ad -- we wound up scrapping
the ad when he wouldn't budge on the price) years ago and I made a note
that I never wanted to deal with the guy again.
Stick with the lesser-knowns and I think you have something there
(especially if you know you have the only extant print of the pic in
question.)
TT
Steven Rowe
<ttu...@qwest.net> writes:
>
>AVOID AT ALL COSTS: Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy or any of the
>BIG names that we know to be protected. Most of these names are
>protected by a lawyer named Roger Richmond who is extremely protective
>of these copyrighted faces
if you use a picture pre1923, copyright is not an issue
however, California has some sort of law about exploiting the dead
for their faces --- so when this calendar gets printed, make sure you dont
print it in California....
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>AVOID AT ALL COSTS: Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy or any of the
>BIG names that we know to be protected. Most of these names are
>protected by a lawyer named Roger Richmond who is extremely protective
flatheadmt
> however, California has some sort of law about exploiting the
dead
> for their faces --- so when this calendar gets printed, make sure you dont
> print it in California....
There are enough classic images in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari alone to make
several years of calendars.
Norm
Rev. J. Toad
<rod...@mont-alto.com> wrote:
>There is really no reason a.m.s. can't do a silent film calendar. I
>suggest it be a fund-raiser for some worthy film restoration project.
I have no photos to contribute (though as mentioned elsewhere, I'd
love to see a Lillian Gish in there somewhere), but I'm definitely in
for buying one, or maybe a few, depending on the final price and how
many people I know who'd like to have one as well.
Tom Tuerff
srowe...@aol.comUNSPAM (Steven Rowe) wrote:
> if you use a picture pre1923, copyright is not an issue
> however, California has some sort of law about exploiting the dead
> for their faces ....
>
Hence my note about Chaplin, Fields, etc. And it doesn't just include
California. Those faces are copywrited everywhere!
TT
Steven Rowe
<ttu...@qwest.net> writes:
>> if you use a picture pre1923, copyright is not an issue
>> however, California has some sort of law about exploiting the
>dead
>> for their faces ....
>Hence my note about Chaplin, Fields, etc. And it doesn't just include
>California. Those faces are copywrited everywhere!
Copyright doesnt work that way.
are you suggesting the faces are trademarked ?
steven rowe
Rodney Sauer
No, it's not a copyright. That would expire and enter the public domain,
as guaranteed by the constitution. Apparently it's an "ownership of
image and personality rights," and since this is state, not federal law
it does vary from state to state.
Joanne Capella
> RobtMcKay (robt...@aol.com) writes:
> > Rodney wrote:
> >
> >>There is really no reason a.m.s. can't do a silent film calendar. I
> >>suggest it be a fund-raiser for some worthy film restoration project
>
>
> You guys are going about this all the wrong way. If you want to
> make a real AMS calendar, then make it a real AMS calendar.
> Mr. January -- Jon Mirsalis, seductively sprawled over his
> piano with tubes of toxins strategically placed over the
> naughty bits of his birthday suit.
> Ms. February -- Frederica Merrivale, swathed in grapes and
> feather boas on her fainting couch.
> Mr. March -- George Shelps, glowering in a room full of
> "ONE WAY" signs (pointing to the right, of course).
Shouldn't March feature a group shot of the AMSers attending CineFest
standing in a snowbank outside the Syracuse Holiday Inn? Or how about
freezing to death waiting for the Landmark Theatre to open its doors?
Joannw
TMRIEGLER
>Shouldn't March feature a group shot of the AMSers attending CineFest
>standing in a snowbank outside the Syracuse Holiday Inn? Or how about
>freezing to death waiting for the Landmark Theatre to open its doors?
Or huddling together freezing to death AFTER the Landmark has opened its
doors...
Terri Riegler
(who is looking forward to that SH! THE OCTOPUS bonfire at the Landmark next
March...)
TTuerff
<< Copyright doesnt work that way.
are you suggesting the faces are trademarked ? >>
Probably. I'm sorry if I used the wrong word but you get my drift. It's
whatever law keeps you from using somebody's image without permission, even
after they're dead. Obviously Chaplin, Fields, Marilyn, Elvis, etc. all fall
into that category. Trademark is probably the word I'm looking for. Thanks.
Steven Rowe
steven ("not me" said foxy loxy) rowe
Rodney Sauer
> so is someone going to do this calendar or not??
Okay. I've found a place to run these off on a Docutech. It's not going
to give the luminous quality of making plates and running offset, but
one page of doing this "right" would cost more than my guess about the
net proceeds, so that's not the point. If you want excellent quality
stills, pick up the Brownlow coffee table book on Pickford.
I am going to contact some of those who have contacted me for stills (I
only need 12, anyhow). I need to determine postage, but I anticipate a
final cost of $10 plus postage. I'm doing an initial run of 25, so get
your orders in early. The advantage of Docutech is that I can do another
short run later if more people want them.
When I'm done (door closes December 31 or whenever I run out if a few
are left) I'll send a check for all profits from this to the UCLA Film
and Television archive, as they've been doing some good stuff lately.
Don't send orders yet -- I'll make an announcement in about a week, I
anticipate. DO send birthdays of your favorite silent stars if you want
them included. I don't have all the time in the world, so I'll trust
IMDB on birthdays of some of the biggies, especially all of those who
appear in the calendar.
I would like stills of Wallace Beery and Lon Chaney if anyone has nice
ones -- I've got pretty people but I'm short on heavies. I want scans of
8X10 stills at 100%, 150 lpi, and if you jpeg them use maximum quality.
Rodney Sauer
I have no stills from foreign films -- I'd love a Faust, Passion,
Italian Straw Hat or Caligari if anyone has one handy; or anything else,
really. Contact me first if you like, but I'll eventually need a scan at
150 dpi greyscale, 100% scaling (for 8X10 originals). If you use jpeg,
use maximum quality (lowest compression). Let me know what credit you want.
I've discovered a list of silent film stars birthdays (unfortunately
missing March, May and June, but I'm working on those months by other
means). I'm not doing deaths. If anyone has dates of other significant
events (when, exactly, did Fred Ott sneeze?) please drop me a note.
If anyone has a little leisure time and can look up year of birth on
some stars that would be a great help. Easy to do on IMDB, just takes
some time. Drop me a line and I'll send you a list of people, then
you'll mail me back a list with the dates.
Thanks!
Robert Lipton
Rodney Sauer wrote:
> I am proceeding on AMS Calendar 2003.
>
> I have no stills from foreign films -- I'd love a Faust, Passion,
> Italian Straw Hat or Caligari if anyone has one handy; or anything else,
> really. Contact me first if you like, but I'll eventually need a scan at
> 150 dpi greyscale, 100% scaling (for 8X10 originals). If you use jpeg,
> use maximum quality (lowest compression). Let me know what credit you want.
>
> I've discovered a list of silent film stars birthdays (unfortunately
> missing March, May and June, but I'm working on those months by other
> means). I'm not doing deaths. If anyone has dates of other significant
> events (when, exactly, did Fred Ott sneeze?) please drop me a note.
>
> If anyone has a little leisure time and can look up year of birth on
> some stars that would be a great help. Easy to do on IMDB, just takes
> some time. Drop me a line and I'll send you a list of people, then
> you'll mail me back a list with the dates.
According to the Internet Movie Database: January 7, 1894.
http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0000008
Bob
Rodney Sauer
>
>
> Rodney Sauer wrote:
>
>> If anyone has dates of other significant
>> events (when, exactly, did Fred Ott sneeze?) please drop me a note.
> According to the Internet Movie Database: January 7, 1894.
>
> http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0000008
>
Oh, for Pete's sake. Now I have to put it in the calendar!
All right, try this one, wise guy. I need birthdays for Luke, Teddy, and
Silver King.
(Thanks)
Robert Lipton
Rodney Sauer wrote:
> Robert Lipton wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Rodney Sauer wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone has dates of other significant events (when, exactly, did
>>> Fred Ott sneeze?) please drop me a note.
>>
>
>> According to the Internet Movie Database: January 7, 1894.
>>
>> http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0000008
>>
>
>
> Oh, for Pete's sake. Now I have to put it in the calendar!
>
> All right, try this one, wise guy. I need birthdays for Luke, Teddy, and
> Silver King.
>
> (Thanks)
Woof woof, arf, grr. Woof.
Bob
TMRIEGLER
>I am proceeding on AMS Calendar 2003.
>If anyone has a little leisure time and can look up year of birth on
>some stars that would be a great help.
Okay, I volunteered to help with the research, along with Freddie. I'm checking
dates on what Rodney has listed so far. (That's coming along nicely, I might
add.) When I'm finished with that, I will be looking for additions/ missing
people. Anyone who wants to be sure their favorites are among those listed can
either post a list here or email me separately. I'll look up the date, check
them against the calendar and if not listed put them on the additions list I
send to Rodney. All additions are, of course, at his discretion as he's doing
the hard part. Freddie and I are just alternating the part of Marian the
Librarian, which is quite a stretch for DoNs.
Terri Riegler
"Do you think that I'd allow a common masher? Now, really, mama. I have my
standards where men are concerned and I have no intention..."
Marian Paroo in THE MUSIC MAN
Rodney Sauer
Freddie and I are just alternating the part of Marian the
> Librarian, which is quite a stretch for DoNs.
>
> Terri Riegler
> "Do you think that I'd allow a common masher? Now, really, mama. I have my
> standards where men are concerned and I have no intention..."
"... I know all about your standards, and if you don't mind my saying
so, there's not a man a live who could hope to measure up to that
blend of Ramon Novarro, Buster Keaton, and Valentino you've concocted
for yourself out of your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbonrness and
your library full of videos!"
Susan Hall
> You guys are going about this all the wrong way. If you want to
> make a real AMS calendar, then make it a real AMS calendar.
> Ms. April -- Susan Hall, spearing Rodney Sauer with a
> lethally-sharpened violin bow.
>
> I leave it to others to complete this thread...
>
>
> Jim
> (Mr. October)
Go on vacation for a few days and look what happens! I end up in a
calander, and without the infamous 'Library Whip' no less. . . .
(Hmmmm, though the bow might not be such bad weapon after all. . . or
I can always swing those knee length pearls to good affect, too . . .
) >; >
Susan Hall, Violinist, Scoring Assistant and KEEPER OF THE LIBRARY
WHIP
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
p.s. For those unaware, the Library Whip is for use in keeping a
certain Mr. Sauer in gear refiling the huge stacks of music gone
through in the search for the perfect music to grace the silents we
play for. He's great at putting together calendars but not so
terrific at the house keeping stuff. . . .
Frederica
> so, there's not a man a live who could hope to measure up to that
> blend of Ramon Novarro, Buster Keaton, and Valentino you've concocted
> for yourself out of your Irish imagination, your Iowa stubbonrness and
> your library full of videos!"
Oh phew! It took me a while to catch the reference. I thought you were
talking about DoN standards. We have them, but they're pretty darned low.
We prefer them alive, and within the same species.
Frederica
Robert Lipton
Frederica wrote:
And which species is that?
Bob
Frederica
"Robert Lipton" <bobl...@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > Oh phew! It took me a while to catch the reference. I thought you were
> > talking about DoN standards. We have them, but they're pretty darned
low.
> > We prefer them alive, and within the same species.
> >
>
>
> And which species is that?
The SAME species, so it depends upon which species we're being that day.
For instance, most of the time I am a slinky, purring feline. Today I'm a
pms wolverine. Y'all have been warned.
(Quick left turn) And speaking of differing species, for those of you ams
denizens who were in Sacile, did anyone see Le Canard?
Frederica
Precode
I tried to, but someone yelled, "Duck!" and I hit the floor...
Mike S.
Jeremy Bond Shepherd
"Frederica" <missme...@RATSPAMMERSyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> (Quick left turn) And speaking of differing species, for those of you ams
> denizens who were in Sacile, did anyone see Le Canard?
I did. It was.... erm... mind-boggling. I don't think I could say any more
on a "family" newsgroup without getting bleeped.
The Madame Butterfly takeoff was even more mind-boggling. Ciao-Ciao San
never had it so good.
-Jeremy