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Really looking forward to Vera Vague.  I’m not sure if I’ve watched any of her shorts before, though I’ve definitely heard of her.

Review for a very early Harold Lloyd short, when he was known as Lonesome Luke, is now up.

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I'm now working nights from Tuesday to Saturday, so I probably won't be able to watch it until Sunday night.


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Columbia has been hard at work... and the many available online resources to watch most Vera Vague shorts are now gone.  This is sad as we will miss two fascinating entries: SHE SNOOPS TO CONQUER, the only Columbia WW2 propaganda short to feature a one of their female comics, and THE JURY GOES ROUND N' ROUND, which was nominated for an academy award.  As it stands, next will be HISS AND YELL.
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Columbia has been hard at work... and the many available online resources to watch most Vera Vague shorts are now gone.  This is sad as we will miss two fascinating entries: SHE SNOOPS TO CONQUER, the only Columbia WW2 propaganda short to feature a one of their female comics, and THE JURY GOES ROUND N' ROUND, which was nominated for an academy award.  As it stands, next will be HISS AND YELL.

We live in an age when streaming services are becoming more common.  I don’t know why Sony doesn’t release all the shorts on something like Amazon Prime.  Preferably restored but if not, it’s better than nothing.  They’d make a small profit for each stream - which is greater than the nothing they make now and those of us who want to see them can see them.
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We live in an age when streaming services are becoming more common.  I don’t know why Sony doesn’t release all the shorts on something like Amazon Prime.  Preferably restored but if not, it’s better than nothing.  They’d make a small profit for each stream - which is greater than the nothing they make now and those of us who want to see them can see them.

Yep.  That cuts 4 weeks worth of shorts straight out of the loop; understandably, I'm not happy.  They won't release them, but they sure as hell want to protect their monetary rights to the material.  Man, I wish US copyright law was 50 or 75 years instead of 95 because that would light a fire under there companies to keep producing quality DVD sets or streaming options if they want to keep the money flowing.  Many of these shorts that we are unable to review (whether due to lack of YouTube videos or due to loss of film) have plots entirely unique to the Vera Vague series.
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Yep.  That cuts 4 weeks worth of shorts straight out of the loop; understandably, I'm not happy.  They won't release them, but they sure as hell want to protect their monetary rights to the material.  Man, I wish US copyright law was 50 or 75 years instead of 95 because that would light a fire under there companies to keep producing quality DVD sets or streaming options if they want to keep the money flowing.  Many of these shorts that we are unable to review (whether due to lack of YouTube videos or due to loss of film) have plots entirely unique to the Vera Vague series.
This is something that really bothers me. A company owns the rights to a work, but they won't release it, and they also take down all of the videos on the internet! Do they want these films to just be in limbo?


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So all videos for all remaining Vera Vague shorts have been removed from YouTube.  Consider this an off week while I look to see if anything is left.
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So all videos for all remaining Vera Vague shorts have been removed from YouTube.  Consider this an off week while I look to see if anything is left.

Just a suggestion, but a lot of the Clark and McCullough shorts on the Geno’s House of Rare Films channel are available, and I believe public domain.  I already did Odor in the Court.  Maybe you can do the rest.

It’s up to you, of course, there’s other stuff out there I’m sure.

Oh, and the official Harold Lloyd channel posted a ton of stuff, so no worries about that stuff coming down for copyright reasons.
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So all videos for all remaining Vera Vague shorts have been removed from YouTube.  Consider this an off week while I look to see if anything is left.

There's at least one more here.
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Sorry, I'm working overtime 6 days a week right now, I don't have much time to watch movies and do reviews right now.


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On demand, this week we discuss HIGH BLOOD PLEASURE, featuring Schilling & Lane: https://moronika.com/forums/index.php?topic=6841
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Sorry, I'm working overtime 6 days a week right now, I don't have much time to watch movies and do reviews right now.

Quit that hard work stuff, that’s what wives are for.  Didn’t The Three Stooges teach you anything?

Good luck with the job.
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This week, we feature Johnny Kascier in the Vernon & Quillan short A FOOL AND HIS HONEY: https://moronika.com/forums/index.php?topic=6850
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Keep posting Paul, and thanks for all you do.  I’ll catch up soon enough - I’ve been listening to music and following baseball more than watching any movies as of late, but that will change.
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