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Offline falsealarms

I've never seen PHONEY CRONIES. I wonder what gives with the generic title cards.

That print is from a TV re-issue, likely from the 50s or 60s. This short was a bonus on the SWING PARADE OF 1946 DVD that Legend Films put out a few years ago.


Offline GentWithoutCents

Very thankful to the kind soul on YouTube who has upped all those solo shorts recently. I fear I'm in for a long wait before the Rare Treasures set comes to down to a decent price (being in the UK, shipping will add on a fair bit the total cost for me). Having only seen a few mediocre efforts featuring El Brendel and Andy Clyde (The Ring and the Belle, Ay Tank Ay Go), my thoughts on both are now much kinder. Brendel seemed to work a lot better as part of a double/triple act than on his own.

Just found this Charley Chase short:



Offline dbeatlefreak

Hello Everyone, I'm glad to be here.
I don't know if this is off topic, but I have been trying to collect the non-Stooge Columbia two-reelers. To date, as far as I know, there have been only 63 of these comedies released on various DVD's, including all 10 of Buster Keaton's comedies and all 20 of Charley Chase's. My question is, does anyone know if there are any others that have been released on DVD? A list of all of the ones that I know of is below:
Can anyone help add to this list?
(I know that there are many more available to be had on youtube, but I'm interested in legitimately released DVD's).
Thanks!

COLUMBIA TWO REELERS

Buster Keaton
Buster made 10 two reel comedy shorts for Columbia between 1939 and 1941. These 10 were released on DVD by Sony in 2006.

Charley Chase
Charley made 20 two reel comedy shorts for Columbia between 1937 and 1940. These 20 were released on DVD by Sony in 2013.

Joe DeRita
Slappily Married (1946) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
The Good Bad Egg (1947) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Wedlock Deadlock (1947) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Jitter Bughouse (1948) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault

Joe Besser
Waiting In The Lurch (1949) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Dizzy Yardbird (1950) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Fraidy Cat (1951) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Aim, Fire, Scoot - (1952) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Caught On The Bounce (1952) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Spies And Guys (1953) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
The Fire Chaser (1954) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
G.I. Dood It (1955) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Hook A Crook (1955) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Army Daze (1956) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault

The Glove Slingers
Glove Slingers (1939) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (featuring Shemp)
Pleased To Mitt You (1940) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (featuring Shemp)

Joe Smith And Charlie Dale
A Nag In The Bag (1938) - Charley Chase Shorts Volume 1

El Brendel, Tom Kennedy, Monty Collins and Dudley Dickerson
Phoney Cronies (1942) - Swing Parade DVD

Monty Collins and Tom Kennedy
Midnight Blunders (1936) - Icons Of Horror Collection-Sam Katzman DVD

Andy Clyde
Hot Paprika (1935) - Icons Of Adventure DVD
Home On The Rage (1938) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (featuring Shemp)
Money Squawks (1939) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (featuring Shemp)
Boobs In The Woods (1940) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (featuring Shemp)

Gus Schilling and Richard Lane
Ain't Love Cuckoo (1946) - Icons Of Screwball Comedy Vol 1 DVD

Shemp Howard Two Reelers (COLUMBIA)
Pick A Peck Of Plumbers (1944) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (co-starring El Brendel)
Open Season For Saps (1944) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Off Again, On Again (1945) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Where The Pest Begins (1945) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
A Hit With A Miss (1945) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Mr Noisy (1946) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault
Jiggers, My Wife (1946) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (co-starring Tom Kennedy)
Society Mugs (1946) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault (co-starring Tom Kennedy)
Bride And Gloom (1947) - Rare Treasures From The Columbia Pictures Vault


Offline dbeatlefreak

In addition to the 63 officially released Columbia non-Stooge two reel comedies that I know of, here are 44 other unreleased Columbia non-Stooge two reel comedies available on youtube. Please add to the two lists if you know of others, released and un-released.



COLUMBIA TWO REEL COMEDIES - youtube availability

Hugh Herbert
Oh Baby (1944)
One Shivery Night (1950)
Tall Dark And Gruesome (1948)
Super Wolf (1949)

The 'Musical Novelty' Series
Umpa (1933)

George Sidney and Charlie Murray
Radio Dough (1934)

Wally Vernon and Eddie Quillan
Nobody's Home (1955)

Monty Collins and Tom Kennedy
New News (1937)

Walter Catlett
You're Next (1940)

Andy Clyde
In The Dog House (1934)
It Always Happens (1935)
Am I Having Fun!(1936)
Lodge Night (1937)
The Ring And The Belle (1941)
Gold Is Where You Lose It (1944)
Pardon My Nightshirt (1956)

Harry Langdon
His Bridal Sweet (1935)
The Leather Necker (1935)
I Don't Remember (1935)
Cold Turkey (1940)
A Doggone Mix Up (1938)
Sue My Lawyer (1938)
Piano Mooner (1942)
Tireman, Spare My Tires (1942)
A Blitz On The Fritz (1943)
Blonde And Groom (1943)
To Heir Is Human (1944) with Una Merkel
Defective Detectives (1944)
Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945)

El Brendel
Ay Tank Ay Go (1936)
Love At First Fright (1941)
I Spied For You (1943)

Gus Schilling and Richard Lane
Pardon My Terror (1946)
High Blood Pleasure (1945)
Training For Trouble (1947)

The Mischief Makers
Kids Will Be Kids (1954)

The Glove Slingers
Fresh As A Freshman (1941)
Glove Affair (1941)

Vera Vague
Doctor, Feel My Pulse (1944)
Hiss And Yell (1946)

Harry Von Zell
Meet Mr. Mischief (1947)

Bert Wheeler
The Awful Sleuth (1951)

Wally Brown and Tim Ryan
French Fried Frolic (1949)

Max Baer and Maxie Rosenbloom
The Champs Step Out (1951)



Offline Mark The Shark

I've never seen PHONEY CRONIES. I wonder what gives with the generic title cards.



That's the standard intro for Official Films, a home-movie reissue company, dating from the 1940s I believe. I also have seen a version of "Glove Slingers" with that title format, and several of the Hal Roach Little Rascals shorts circulate with that intro. I wonder how much of the Columbia stuff they released, and if any "still missing or unaccounted for" titles could be found that way?


Offline metaldams

Talk about a thread that needs a revival.  I'll look for more shorts soon.
- Doug Sarnecky


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Talk about a thread that needs a revival.  I'll look for more shorts soon.

Good idea, Doug!  This thread definitely needs to be revived.  :)

BTW, I looked back at the first page of the thread and realized that most of the Youtube links in the posts were not working.  I looked into it and it's because the parameters for the tag changed at some point.  The ones I saw were entered as

Code: [Select]
[youtube=425,350]xxxxxxxxx[/youtube]
Unfortunately, that sizing method doesn't work anymore.  Instead, you have to be more specific and use the parameter name in the tag, like this:

Code: [Select]
[youtube width=425 height=350]xxxxxxxxx[/youtube]
Incidentally, you don't have to specify both the width and height anymore, either.  You can just set either one and it will automatically set the other dimension size proportionally.  You can also just leave the sizing out altogether, but that tends to make the videos rather large, at least in my browser window.   ;)

Here are all of the optional parameters and values that you can use for all of the YouTube bbcodes in the toolbar when you make a post:
  • width = Specifies the width of the iframe area.
  • height = Specifies the height of the iframe area.
  • start = Specifies how far into the video to start at.  Valid formats: "Seconds" or "Minutes:Seconds"
  • end = Specifies how far into the video to stop at.  Valid formats: "Seconds" or "Minutes:Seconds"
  • autoplay = 1, yes, on or true
  • color = red or white
  • theme = dark or light
  • loop = 1, yes, on or true
  • controls = 0, no, off, hide or false
  • showinfo = 0, no, off, hide or false
  • iprivacy = 1, yes, on or true

There is also a new option under Profile => Look and Layout called Show YouTube videos as a link.  Checking this box makes the mod create links instead of embedded videos in your post.

I went through and modified all of the non-working Youtube tags that I saw on the first page of the thread, but you might want to check and fix any others that aren't working anymore.


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Wow!  It's sad to realize how many of the videos linked in this thread are no longer available.  It's pathetic how copyrights have become so abused over the years that even shorts released over 75 years ago are still not in the public domain.   Fucking politicians.  >:(