Blackhawk 16mm Films lJ)mk~© TT.rn:,ir@IT~W1&tCfi@lli'l We regret that rising costs of film stock, processing, reels, related supplies and transportation have required us to increase prices on 16mm Blackhawk films for many titles in the Fall, 1990 catalogue beginning after June 15, 1991. Orders received on or after June 17, 1991 arc priced as follows: If the 1990 catalogue price is: The price aft.er June 17, 1991 is: $25 same $65 $75 $75 $85 $85 same $95 same $100 $110 $125 $145 $145 $160 $165 same $175 $195 $195 $230 $210 $230 $250 $275 $275 $310 $295 $325 $300 $325 $325 $350 $375 $395 $395 and up same No increases apply at this time to films listed in our 1991 supplements. Prices are subject to further change without notice. May 17, 1991 =FILM PRESERVATION --- ------- ASSOCIATES ------ ---- ---- 8307 San Fernando Road ~iun Valley, CA 91352 Telephone: 8Hi 768-5376 BLACKHAWK FI:LMS in 16mm Greetings! Among the exciting vintage releases and re-releases in this supplement, we are especially happy to present two editions of UMOUSINE WVE, a brilliant Charley Chase comedy from 1928, described as '"his best film" by Leonard M allin. Our silent copy was restored.from the original camera negalive, and although it has smaU quirks, tt ls the most complete version seen in many dec~des. Our sound edition is quite a slick abridgement prepared by Robert Youngson in 1958 for 'The Golden Age of Comedy" but not released in that pioneering compilation. (Youngson included a much shorter C1bndgerrent of LIMOUSINE WVE in his later anthology, "Four Clowns", but this one is rather d([ferenl). Here for the first time in 16mm ls one of the most uPusual films ever produced. THE LOG OF THE U-35. It is an amazing, authentic record of torpedo attacks and sinkings by a German U·Boat during the First World War. Abridgemen ts of this capturedfilm were released in 1919 both in England and in the United States; we assembled material from several sources to bring you a more complete version than any other to be found. Also described in this supplement and never previously released by Blackhawk are complete versions of NIGHT lnAIL and NORTH SEA, two superb British films of the 1930s which mix documentary. re-enactment, poetry and music in ways which were completely.fresh then and are still exciting today; the 1917 Swedish comedy THOMAS GRAAL'S BEST CH ILD, directed by Mauritz Stiller and s 'aning Victor Sjostrom; and a new collection of early travel films from Pathe Freres including a Jine example of the Pathechrome stencil color process. Not only have we restored original main titles to THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. but with every copy sold we will also include t he original script, reproduced from Antonio Mormo's personal copy. ANGORA WVE is here with the original Vita.phone score, which g reatly enhances 1hls love.y comedy and is surprisingly well-recorded. Price changes (described on page L of this s11pJ1lement) took effect June 17th on many films in our Fall, 1990 catalog; however, prices for films In our 1991 siipplen ents are not affected. ON THE WRONG TREK * (l 936) $160 Directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase). with a surprise guest appearance by Laurel and I lardy. 'The hero ls telling {by way of flashback) detail!! of the dreadful vacatJon he has Just had with hts Charley Chase pert wife and bossy mother-In-law. Hard luck rides them all the way Produced by Hal Roach Studios and we share these various encounters. one of which is with a pair • Restricted to U. S. and Canada among the many hitchhikers the tr1o meet as they drive along. The mother-tn·law wants to pick them up. saying Those lwo fellows over there. They have kind faces.' The camera pans slowly along the roadside to reveal a shabby Stan and Ollie thumbing their way -- In LIMOUSINE LOVE * (1928) opposite dlncclions," -- John McCabe In Laurel & Hardy (21 minutes] ORJGINAL SIT..EITT VERSION, 21 MINUlES $160 Ro13ERTY0UNGSON'S l 958ABRJDGEMENT, 13 MiNS. $100 Charley Chase Directs "his best film ... " -- Leonard Maltln Billy West's Famous Imitation of Speeding on the way to hts wedding. Charley Chase somehow ends up Charlie Chaplin with Jealous Edgar Kennedy's naked wife in the curtained back sea of his car. Hal Roach's craftsmen create t"'O reels of br11l!ant comedy SIIlP AHOY out of Charley's desperate effort to get her out of the way. whlle Edgar (1919) $160 ts out of the way. while the Innocent bride ls out of the wayl The silent version ts substantlally complete and ts rcstC'red from the BIily West brought hi~ Chaplin Imitation to the screen from original negative, wllh most of the titles extended from 11ash vau<lcvtlle ill 19 I 6. while the very talented Charles Parrott (Charley frames. a few of them replaced. and some decomposed scenes cdllcc. Chase) and supporting player Leo White had considerable experience back In from the abridged version. The excellent abr1dgen-ent 1~ worktng with the actual Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay. The very taken from Robert Youngson's 35mm negative and adds narntlon. funny plot 19 too complicated to explain. bul nothing deter., our hero music and sound effects. from eluding the police, capturing Jewel thieves. and winning fair Ethelyn Gibson's hand Quality 1s very good. (29 min. al 18 fps. s11.) SUMMER 1991 SUPPLEMENT H "Our Gang" Comedies with Hal Roach's Little Rascals • Res/Ti£ led to U.S. and Canada Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy Produced by Hal Roach Studios DOGS IS DOGS • • Restricted to U. S. and Canada (1931) $160 Otiglnal main tlUes restor,ed. Whea.er and Dorothy arc forced to live THE BOHEMIAN GIRL * wtth a mean old stepmothc:r and her pampered son (Sherwood 'Spud' (1936) $395 Balley). With Stymie, Billy Gilbert and Pete the Pup, "Dogs ts Dogs Is the perfect embodiment of the underdog splrtt of the Depression era In this comic version of Michael Balfe's 1843 operetta. Stan and when It was made. It easil} ranks as one of the finest and most witty Ollie arc cast as happy-go-lucky members of a gypsy bane! (including of all the Our Gang comedies.· ·-Richard W. Bann (21 minutes). Thelma Todd ln her last screen appearance). Ollie's Wife (Mae Busch), enamored of a dashing young gypsy !Anlonlo Moreno), kidnaps a little princess to prove her love -- then leaves the child with Stan BffiTHDAY BLUES * and Ollie as she flees with her paramour. Tiu- princess eventually (1932) grows to young womanhood and Is restored to her rightful place. but $160 only after hilarious misadventures befall her and her bumbling guardians. The cast also Includes Darla Hood. James F1nlayson. The flint-hearted father ,f Spanky and Dickie Moore not only Jacqueline Wells and Zeffie TIibury. Original main titles restored. forgets his wife's birthday two years In a row but Is proud of the With each copy of this .film sold during 199 I, we wtll Include the accomplishment. While she lies sobbing, Dickie depletes his savtngs original script. reproduced from Antonio Moreno's personal copy. to buy her a "pip" of a dres,, •• a late 1922 model -- but he's still short of the $1.98 required. so \.11th the help of Stymie and Dorothy, the boys decides to sell bites o · chance In a homemade cake to be filled ANGORA LOVE * with such "valuable prizes" as ~,uspendcrs, a hairbrush, a mousetrap, (1929) soap, an old shoe, and a co-ncob pipe. The cake r=mbles a volcano $160 In the oven and looks like a cornerstone when It emerges, except for The "strong" dramatic story of a goal named Penelope, and her the bulge that quakes, making a sound gradually Intelligible as maternal 1ncllnatlon toward Laurel & Hardy -- who don't exactly insanely reassuring words from a talking doll, "sleep well, sleep relurn the sentiment. Edgar Kennedy, their landlord, Isn't crazy well. sleep well ...• A channlng and funny lesson In humility. (20 about the arrangement either. Wrote the trade paper Fllm Daily. minutes) "Herc ls a short comedy, just sizzling over with rapid-fire laughter­ stirring situations, that click equally well with youths and adults. Laurel and Hardy are an uncttous pair of funstcrs that always boom rn.@rn~rn.1r ·w·@m~@®@lill0 ® along on a current of Iippltng merriment. True. they are the very lncaination of acrobatic fumble bugs and ludicrous what-nots that defy the straight line of analysis; but oh. boy, who cares about the Ifill1~'1r©rlliI©.£.1 ©@li'iOPITW'IT'IT@IW~ proplieties of cinema construction when two big gtnks are pulling olT stunts that would shake all the sugar out of a chronic diabetic all Released Theatrically by Warner Bros. tied up tn knots of laughter." The last silent Lc""lurcl & Hardy short, Available onli until March 31, 1992 this film was released with a synchronized music score on Vitaphone discs. here re-recorded to film. Directed by ~s Foster, Supervised by Leo McCarey. Photographed by George Steven~. (20 minutes) CAVALCADE OF GJIRLS $85 During World War I, worn= were asked to come out of their homes and take ova jobs vacated b, men ·- and they did. Here Is footage of PERFECT DAY * women working 1n war plants and as steeplejacks, lumbering. and (1929) $160 operating railroads. Of cour;ie we see women's football and baseball teams. And the daredevils: ten-year-old Mildred Unger doing the The Hardys and the Laurels, together with "uncle" Edgar (Kennedy).