tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post1218616841030687422..comments2024-01-07T20:03:49.027+01:00Comments on All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!: The March Of Time - The unfinished MGM 1930 MusicalJonas Nordinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06065342609209811314noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post-87480103367928024672009-01-26T19:48:00.000+01:002009-01-26T19:48:00.000+01:00No copies of Jailbirds of Paradise and Hello Pop a...No copies of Jailbirds of Paradise and Hello Pop are known to exist. It was deteriorated or destroyed or thrown away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post-1928910621362961102009-01-01T13:35:00.000+01:002009-01-01T13:35:00.000+01:00Jonas, this is wonderful!! Again, your extensive k...Jonas, this is wonderful!! Again, your extensive knowledge of early Hollywood is extremely impressive, and the way you write it so well makes it fun to read, and easy to follow. :)<BR/><BR/>I can't watch the clips, because I'm on dial-up...but I did actually see 'The Lock Step' earlier tonight while watching THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT III. Reminded me of that 'Cell block Tango'(?) scene in CHICAGO. <BR/><BR/>***<BR/><BR/>Happy New Year, Jonas!! :)Ginger Ingenuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06904339551806493214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post-22736091676047575252009-01-01T10:32:00.000+01:002009-01-01T10:32:00.000+01:00Bonne année 2009 Jonas...:)Bonne année 2009 Jonas...:)PIGNOUFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14769379610694342820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post-7647799892569433632008-12-29T22:13:00.000+01:002008-12-29T22:13:00.000+01:00So meaty!This was such a superb post. Bravo Jonas!...So meaty!<BR/><BR/>This was such a superb post. Bravo Jonas! I had fun listening to the music and watching all the clips. You are a wealth of information too.<BR/><BR/>You need to write a book on early talkies. I’d buy it for sure. I can be pretty rude and will elbow any other people in my way to be the first in line for a copy.<BR/><BR/>“Musical misch-masch” Love it!<BR/><BR/>I really enjoyed the Hades Ballet clip. And Ramon Novarro singing Long Ago in Alcala (la la la la la).<BR/><BR/>Why is it that Three Stooges shorts had beautiful dance numbers squeezed in? I’ve seen two others like that.<BR/><BR/>And those are some sexy prisoners in the Lock Step!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the link!<BR/>~Raquelle~Raquel Stecherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687110907002450794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post-81401183551868387712008-12-29T15:22:00.000+01:002008-12-29T15:22:00.000+01:00Glad to help, however indirectly, to this site! I ...Glad to help, however indirectly, to this site! I honestly don't recall who sent me the "Father Time" number, but I know it was at least fifteen years ago. Apparently it's an impossible clip to find anywhere so my humble version will have to do--I know it's mine because there's a tiny jump cut at one point where I eliminated a big jolt of static. I'm curious where this clip even originated from--an old 16mm print? A TV showing? Big mystery. I'd be thrilled to see a better print of it someday. Meanwhile, YouTube has proved an incredibly wonderous source of rare material, and I'm always mining for something I haven't seen before. <BR/><BR/>On a sidenote, a local TV station in the 1980s once routinely showed a slew of rare musicals: SHOW OF SHOWS, SUNNY SIDE UP, ON WITH THE SHOW, JUST IMAGINE etc. Lord knows how they got this stuff, but I kept my VCR busy! Since that time only JUST IMAGINE and (I think) SHOW OF SHOWS have surfaced on the Fox Movie Channel and TCM. Needless to say, I wish much more attention was paid to such early musicals through such outlets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post-91067842784757416262008-12-29T08:28:00.000+01:002008-12-29T08:28:00.000+01:00King Of Jazz,I congratulate your find of the Fathe...King Of Jazz,<BR/>I congratulate your find of the Father Time number. Where on earth did you find it? I haven't been able to locate any copies of B'way to H'wood with it included anywhere. Splendid find!<BR/><BR/>Blue Daugther Of Heaven is one of the numbers often mistaken being lifted from The March Of Time. It's the Albertina Rasch Dancers all right but is taken from Lord Byron Of Broadway, a movie that opened in February 1930, long before March Of Time was scrapped. But it still is a nice number.Jonas Nordinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06065342609209811314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891927412771509295.post-27011672400058301362008-12-28T15:29:00.000+01:002008-12-28T15:29:00.000+01:00Wow, I could read about this stuff forever. I'...Wow, I could read about this stuff forever. I'm certain that I'm the original source that supplied the finale to YouTube (I originally sent it to Jef Cohen, who posted the clip on his site), and I agree the quality is "really bad" but it was even worse before! I forgot where I got the clip from (sometime in the early '90s), but it was all in ugly green and brown discoloration. I converted it to black & white and tried valiantly to add some contrast, but as you can see it still looks like a 90th-generation dupe! <BR/><BR/>I'm really intrigued by those Alberta Rasche dancers, and did some brief research on them online. There are other clips on YouTube I believe of their work, such as 1930's "Blue Daughter of Heaven" which looks a bit like MARCH OF TIME-era material. This is tremendous stuff, and at least such clips are finding some sort of new audience.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the wonderful year-end article! We can only hope that 2009 will reveal long hidden treasures from this era in vaults or basements. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com