Topic: Slapsticon 2008, July 17 - 20, Arlington VA

[BeAStooge]

From Richard Finegan...

A program of Three Stooges Rarities will be part of this year's Slapsticon 2008 schedule. The festival of rare silent & sound comedies is held in Arlington, Virginia each July. This year the dates are July 17 thru 20, 2008. Exact titles of the Stooges Rarities are not yet announced, but a partial film schedule plus other info can be found at the Slapsticon website.

http://www.slapsticon.org

The Stooges Rarities are being presented by filmmmaker, writer, producer, director, finder-of-rare-films, old friend and all-around swell guy Paul Gierucki. So you KNOW there will be some real rarities. Paul has a great talent for digging up cool rare stuff. Many Stooges fans may already be familiar with his DVD set "Stooges: The Men Behind The Mayhem". Also two other DVD sets he recently produced, "The Forgotten Films Of Roscoe Arbuckle" and "Industrial Strength Keaton" can not be too highly recommended.

This year's Slapsticon will be the sixth annual, and it is one event I would not miss (and I haven't yet). Lots of super-rare comedy films and lots of good friends attending...it's always been well worth the trip.

[BeAStooge]

From the Slapsticon website, and organizer Rob Farr...

SLAPSTICON 2008 is a four-day, international film festival dedicated to classic motion picture comedy! From Thursday July 17, through Sunday July 20, film lovers from around the world are invited to converge on Arlington Virginia., to attend screenings of rare shorts and selected feature-length comedies.

Sponsored by the Arlington County Department of Cultural Affairs, SLAPSTICON 2008 will take place at the county's spacious Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.

Opening night at the Slapsticon will start off on Thursday night July 17 at 7:00pm with a triple slap as Paul Gierucki  presents his 3 Stooges Rarities Show. Paul is being tight-lipped about the surprises in store, except to say, "The Stooge show will feature rare newsreel footage, home movies, outtakes, television appearances, interviews, forgotten commercials and a few suprises that are still being finalized. This program is guaranteed to contain something that will be new to even the most die-hard stooge fan."

About Slapsticon 2008…
http://slapsticon.org/
http://www.slapsticon.org/welcome.html

Schedule of Events
http://www.slapsticon.org/program.html

SLAPSTICON 2008 FILM PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Program subject to change without notice.

Thursday July 17, 2008

1:00 pm — Paul Killiam Comedy Compilations
CLOWN PRINCES OF HOLLYWOOD
SLAPSTICK
THE FUN FACTORY

3:00 pm — Weiss-O-Roni
WHY DETECTIVES GO WRONG (1928) — Poodles Hanneford
SPRINGTIME SAPS (1929) — Snub Pollard, Marvin Loback
WINNING WINNIE (1926) — Ethelyn Gibson

7:00 pm – Three Stooges Rarities Show
Hosted by Paul Gierucki

9:00 pm
VS SLEDGEHAMMERS (1915) — Ben Turpin
SALLY OF THE SAWDUST (1925) — W. C. Fields

Friday July 18, 2008

9:00 am — Early Comedies:
NUMBER ONE (1915) — Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
PRETZEL AND FLANAGAN (1914) — Lloyd Hamilton
TAKING THINGS EASY (1919) — Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran
NEARLY SPLICED (1916) — Leon Errol
MISHAPS OF MUSTY SUFFER: GOING UP (1916) — Harry Watson Jr.
ALL JAZZED UP (1919) — Dan Russell, Hughey Mack
IT'S A HARD LIFE (1915) — Heinie and Louie (Jimmy Aubrey and Walter Kendig)
THE BOGUS BOOKING AGENTS (1916) — Ham and Bud
SWEENEY'S CHRISTMAS BIRD (1913) — Hughey Mack
BILLY MCGRATH ON BROADWAY (1913) — Augustus Carney

10:30 am — Kids 'N' Animals
MONKEY SHINES (1922) — Campbell Comedy
THE TIN HOSS (1925) — Hey Fellas
OPEN SPACES (1926) — Malcolm "Big Boy" Sebastian
A PLEASANT JOURNEY (1923) — Our Gang

2:00pm – The Sennett Spot
AMONG THE MOURNERS (1915) — Chester Conklin, Syd Chaplin
ARE WAITRESSES SAFE? (1917) — Ben Turpin, Charlie Murray
TRIMMED IN GOLD (1925) — Billy Bevan
A RAINY KNIGHT (1925) — Raymond Mckee, Eugenia Gilbert
TAXI DOLLS (1929) — Jack Cooper
DOUBLING IN THE QUICKIES (1932) — Lloyd Hamilton, Marjorie Beebe

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Rob Stone Rarities

8:00 pm
VACATION WAVES (1928) — Edward Everett Horton
THE GOLF BUG (1923) — Monte Banks
GOLF WIDOWS (1928) — Harrison Ford, Vernon Dent, Will Stanton

10:00 pm – Late Night Langdon
COUNCEL ON DE FENCE (1934)
SEE AMERICA THIRST (1930)

Saturday July 19, 2008

9:00 am – Cartoon Show

10:30 am — Hal Roach Rarities
RUSH ORDERS (1921) — Snub Pollard
ROUGH ON ROMEO (1921) — Paul Parrott
SHERLOCK SLEUTH (1924) — Arthur Stone
TOO MANY MAMAS (1924) — Charley Chase
IN THE GREASE (1925) — James Finlayson
LOVE PAINS (1931) — Boy Friends
THE RUMMY (1933) — Taxi Boys

2:00 pm
Harry Langdon Documentary — (Paul Killiam) ¬ never released Paul Killiam documentary from the late 1950s featuring rare clips and an interview with Vernon Dent.
THE SILENT PARTNER (1955) — Buster Keaton, Joe E. Brown
THE SCRIBE (1966) — Buster Keaton¹s last film

4:00 pm – Raymond Griffith
AN AERIAL JOYRIDE (1916)
HIS FOOT-HILL FOLLY (1917)
CHANGING HUSBANDS (1924) — with Leatrice Joy

8:00 pm
THE BARNYARD (1923) — Larry Semon
LADIES NIGHT IN A TURKISH BATH (1928) — Dorothy Mackaill, Jimmy Finlayson

10:00 pm — Talkie Shorts
GRASS SKIRTS (1930) — Lloyd Hamilton
THE REAL MCCOY (1930) — Charley Chase
SHARE THE WEALTH (1936) — Andy Clyde
DUMB'S THE WORD (1937) — Edgar Kennedy, Billy Franey

Sunday July 20, 2008

10:00 am — More Talkie Shorts
DANGEROUS FEMALES (1929) — Marie Dressler, Polly Moran
FIDDLIN' AROUND (1938) — Monty Collins, Tom Kennedy
PISTOL PACKIN' NITWITS (1945) — Harry Langdon, El Brendel
ALIBI BYE BYE (1935) — Clark and McCullough
TOMALIO (1933) — Roscoe Arbuckle

1:30 pm
MANHATTAN MADNESS (1918) — Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
THE BROWN DERBY (1926) — Johnny Hines

3:30 pm — Ones for the Road
HIS PRIVATE LIFE (1926) — Lupino Lane
NO FATHER TO GUIDE HIM (1925) — Charley Chase
THE SHRIMP (1930) — Harry Langdon