O C T O B E R, 2005 V O L . 2 I S S U E N º 1 The Internet Noiseletter of Looser Than Loose Publishing LOOSER THAN LOOSE 373 South Willow Street Nº 227 Manchester, New Hampshire 03103 www.looserthanloose.com J U S T R E L E A S E D ! Glass Slide Disc Available as of October 27th, 2005 We proudly inaugurate our all-new Welcome to the Picture Palace series with this disc featuring more than 200 glass slides from the collection of Mark Johnson. Many of the images from these vintage advertisements have been digitally restored and all are presented in high resolution for your viewing pleasure. Additionally, the mechanical attributes of the original slide projection equipment have been replicated so that the images enter and exit your screen, “pushing” each other alternately from the left and right, exactly as they would have done in the theater so very many years ago. Completing the picture palace environment are the soundtracks, which have been compiled from authentic theater organ recordings - some dating from the 1930s. Each musical element has been painstaking- ly remastered and in most cases the resulting restora- tions feature the full dynamic range of the original instruments. A number of “extras” are present on this disc and those details are outlined below. This is the first of at least three volumes of glass slides that will be issued as a part of the Welcome to the Picture Palace series. It is our hope that each entry brings to life some aspect of the early movie- going experience. Volume two is due some time in mid-January and will feature another 200 slides. Some of the Stars to be Found on this Disc... Buster Keaton, ZaSu Pitts, Charley Chase, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ethel Barrymore, Charlie Murray, Marion Davies, Victor McLaglen, Billy West, Larry Semon, Mae Busch, Wallace Reid, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Harold Lloyd, Richard Dix, Thelma Todd, Our Gang, Lloyd Hamilton, Lupino Lane, Edna Marion and many, many more. Plus: Fox Sunshine, Mack Sennett, Christie, Hal Roach and Educational (to name just a handful) “Extras” on the Fabulous Glass Slide Show TTechnical SSpecifications Chriistmas Presentatiion HQ mpeg-2 encoding with minimal compression Slides, stills, magazine cuts and film set to Holiday swing music. Features many favorite silent and early Aspect ratio: 4:3 NTSC Region free sound stars. Wonder Bar (Aiir Traiiller) Color Stereo Digitally restored audio tracks Radio trailer for this 1934 Warner Brothers musical Sunkiist Musiicall Cocktaiill English language Approximate running times April 8th, 1931 radio interview Film: 60 minutes (Louella Parsons and Ruth Chatterton) Full menus Chriistmas Recordiings Audio: 25 minutes Restored 78rpm discs from the collection Top shelf DVD-R used only of Alec and Alice (Todd) Raymond All original material copyright 2005 by Looser Than Loose Publishing (Uncle and Aunt of actress Thelma Todd), set against a background of 1920s Christmas images Ordering Information Pllus: $19.99 (U.S.) + $5.00 S&H domestic ($7.00 foreign) LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING Special opening montage, restoration notes 188 Seames Drive, Manchester, NH 03103, USA and unique “audio system test” Via PayPal at www.looserthanloose.com C O M I N G S O O N The Hudson River Relive the heyday of steam on the Hudson river Day Line Join us for some wonderful excursions on the Hudson river via film, photos and audio materials, all carefully restored and assembled into a 90-minute DVD. Visit Bear Mountain, West Point, and Pough- keepsie with Albany at one end of the line and Manhattan at the other. We’ll take you back to a time of sidewheel steamboats with graceful walking beam engines and up through the age of the diesel-powered MV Dayliner. With the aid of photos, brochures and timetables, tickets, postcards and fact sheets, we’ll put you on the decks of fondly remembered steamers like the Alexander Hamilton, the Hendrick Hudson, the Albany and the Mary Powell. Watch them work, read their stats and learn their fates. Please join us for this voyage back in time. Some of the features are: Steamer Alexander Hamilton in summer 1971 Beautiful Kodachrome footage A Trip up the Hudson (1902) American Mutoscope shot from the deck of the Albany A Trip Down the Hudson (1938) Shot entirely aboard the Alexander Hamilton An Excursion on the MV Dayliner (1976) Visit all the sights from Manhattan to the Poughkeepsie Bridge A Tour of New York Harbor (1902) Early Edison film + Newsreels, Interactive Menus & Illustrations Additional Forthcoming DVDs Presently Available from DVD Releases Looser Than Loose Publishing The Lost Magic of Lloyd Hamilton Five comedy shorts Four two-reel shorts from an often overlooked featuring or costarring a and underrated silent clown true master of physical Crushed, Nobody’’s Busiiness, comedy. This disc is the Jonah Jones & Carefull Pllease first in a series that will plus present all of Stan’s pub- Bonus Ham ‘n’’ BudBud DiscDisc lic domain work in the featuring: order of its shooting. Ham in a Harem, Raskey’’s Roadshow, Visit our website for The Love Magnet, Ham the Detectiive & ordering info and a more The Sausage Factory complete description. All 16mm source materials (except The Sausage Factory) A Stan Laurell Reference Liibrary, Voll. 1 New pure digital transfers Comiing iin January! The first volume in a The LLarger WWorld oof LLaurel && HHardy series highlighting the work of Stan Laurel, Vol.. 22 Oliver Hardy and their Hiighlliightiing appearances by many costars. This disc Babe London & Edgar Kennedy contains six shorts star- with an ample dose of Stan Laurel ring some of the greatest and Oliver Hardy thrown in characters in comedy for good measure film history. You’ll find featuring more details and direct Callll the Wagon ordering info at our Neal Burns & Babe London website. Four Tiimes Foiilled Snooky the Humanzee with Edgar Kennedy The LLarger WWorld oof LLaurel && HHardy,, VVol.. 11 Love and Bullllets A Mack Sennett Comedy with Charley Murray and Edgar Kennedy in support The Hobo A King Bee Billy West Comedy Snub Pollard and Billy West and Babe Hardy Marie Mosquini in five Striking New Source Material! silent comedy shorts pro- plus duced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel rarities, Audio files featuring a lot of familiar & Interactive menus faces like those of Jimmy Finlayson, Noah Young, Comiing iin February! Billy Engle, Eddie Baker, William Gillespie and On The Drawing Board... Glenn Tryon. Visit our The Continuing Adventures of Snub & Marie website.... A Stan Laurel Reference Library, Vol. 2 well, you know the drill. Klondike (with Thelma Todd) Welcome to the Picture Palace Vols. 2 & 3 Hollywood’s Other First Couple An Evening of Silent Fox Comedies Audio CDs Coming Soon from Decorate Your Home Theater Looser than Loose With These Unique Items NBC Acetate Recordiings Prints & Autograph Reproductions Matted ~ frames not included Radio Recordings from 1939 - 1945 A collection of broadcast segments, public addresses, music, bumpers and even auditions taken directly from the original acetate recordings. This CD offers exceedingly obscure radio material once intend- ed by NBC for broadcast on the west coast. Some of the material, however, was never intended for the air, Roscoe Arbuckle $12.99 as in the case of the audition materials or the unique + $5.00 S&H domestic ($7.00 foreign) performance of Frenesi by Woody Herman which was 11”x14” with matte For ordering info visit www.looserthanloose.com recorded privately for an NBC executive. These discs are presently being restored and the CD will be avail- able shortly. Highlights Include: President Roosevelt on Defense Savings Bonds April 30th, 1941 General John J. Pershing on National Defense August 4th, 1940 Walter Winchell Segment December 17th, 1939 Chase and Sanborn Show with Bergen & McCarthy (opening segment) December 31st, 1939 plus Big Bands, Unidentified Chico Marx Appearance, Thelma Todd Charlie Chaplin Commercials, Bumpers & Much More With Autograph Replica No Autograph 11”x14” with matte 11”x14” with matte Watch for it Next Month! $12.99 $9.99 + $5 S&H domestic ($7 foreign) + $5 S&H domestic ($7 foreign).