March 23, 2007
The 1927 Blog-a-Thon
Thanks to everyone for helping bring this off—it turned out even better than I had hoped! There's one post still to come, so if you have anything you wanted to include but didn't get done in time, feel free to send me your last-minute links.
My own contributions are Now Showing in Chicago, detailing all 56 films playing at all 102 theaters in Chicago this weekend in 1927, and an article on Clara Bow and It.
The Entries (in order of appearance):
- Squish on the high price of transition to the talkies (and other goodies)
- Edward Copeland on Buster Keaton's The General
- My favorite art historian on Josephine Baker in Siren of the Tropics
- Operator_99, on a series of German Metropolis postcards
- Damian on 1927 as presented in Singin' in the Rain
- Pinky gives us an MP3 of "The Varsity Drag" (and promises more later this weekend)
- Film of the Year on the Technicolor short film The Flag
- Rocks That Move on film people conceived in 1927
- Nick on Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
- Movie Time Capsule on films set in 1927
- Pinky's back with some love for Antonio Moreno in It
- Stevis on baseball in newsreels
- Samurai Frog gives us his top ten films of 1927
- Stevis is back with an "amateur's" take on The General
- Oggs on Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
- Cinemathematics on the Harold Lloyd film The Kid Brother
- Brian Darr on the two proto-"best picture" awards at the first Oscars
- Oggs is back with Peter Jackson's reimagining of film history in Forgotten Silver
- Stinkylulu on Pearl McCormack in The Scar of Shame
- Samurai Frog checks in again with Disney's Oswald the Rabbit
- New! Self-Styled Siren on Flesh and the Devil
Here I am
http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/?q=node/2262
Rock me like a hurricane
Posted by: Squish at March 22, 2007 4:42 PMHere is my contribution! Hope it qualifies!
Posted by: Damian at March 23, 2007 1:20 AMhttp://operator_99.blogspot.com entry is up and running.
Posted by: operator99 at March 23, 2007 6:53 AMJust got back from '27 with this:
http://filmyear.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/blogathon_1927.html
Posted by: Thom at March 23, 2007 12:02 PMHmmm. I like your title better than the one I currently have. Think I'll change it.
Posted by: Damian at March 23, 2007 7:26 PMIt was more of a summary than a title--I was going with titles, until some came in with really long titles and made my layout look funny, thus the summaries.
Posted by: goatdog at March 23, 2007 7:29 PMCount me in.
http://movietimecapsule.blogspot.com/
Thanks! This was fun!
Posted by: Andrew Krizman at March 24, 2007 4:05 AMMore on IT - but the girl's eye view (hello, Antonio Moreno): http://pinkyspaperhaus.com/?p=414
Posted by: Pinky at March 24, 2007 12:26 PMHere's my contribution:
http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/03/sunrise-song-of-two-humans-1927.html
Posted by: Oggs Cruz at March 24, 2007 6:20 PMI got my piece up on The Kid Brother here:
http://cinemathematics.blogspot.com/2007/03/learning-ropes.html
Posted by: Dan E. at March 25, 2007 12:02 AMJust barely made it, West Coast time.
http://hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com/2007/03/academys-train-not-taken.html
Posted by: Brian at March 25, 2007 1:58 AMHi,
Here's another contribution... It's far less connected to 1927, but I thought it was a fun try.
http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/03/forgotten-silver-1995.html
Posted by: Oggs Cruz at March 25, 2007 4:58 AMThese are all terrific! I laughed. I cried. I read. Great work, everybody!
Posted by: Evil Spoon at March 25, 2007 12:47 PMJust sent the email, but in the meantime:
http://stinkylulu.blogspot.com/2007/03/pearl-mccormack-in-scar-of-shame-1927.html
Posted by: StinkyLulu at March 25, 2007 12:55 PMThis blog-a-thon has been a blast to read. Loved all the articles, and Goatdog, your feature on the Chicago theaters is a wonder. Thanks for hosting a great party!
Posted by: Nick at March 25, 2007 1:45 PMThanks so much for setting this up and allowing me to participate in some small way. Certainly scholarship abounded in this blog-a-thon and it was a pleasure to read and view the posts.
Posted by: operator99 at March 26, 2007 12:58 PMI had something i wanted to send for the 1927 blog-a-thon. can i still get it in?
Posted by: Okonheim at March 30, 2007 2:32 PMI just came upon a complete scrapbook of real photos and paper articles about the 1927 GREAT MOVIE SEASON event and parade in SanFrancisco. Norma Talmadge and many other photos of the parade, meeting San Franisco Major and Lobby photos of the Movies shown at this event. I guess it is what we now call a Film Festival. Any info on this would be appreciated or if anyone wants to buy this, let me know. Real Photos and more. Thanks, Judy
Posted by: Judy at April 6, 2007 3:53 PM