Showing posts with label blogathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogathon. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Eleventh Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- May 27, 2024

Washington Evening Star, 25-November-1923

Lea at Silent-ology is hosting the Eleventh Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon. A blogathon that has lived for eleven years is a rare and wonderful creature.
For the eleventh annual blogathon, I have written about a feature that was a big step forward for Keaton in the art of storytelling, Our Hospitality:


Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Hitchcock -- For the Love of Film III -- August 13, 2024


Film Daily Yearbook, 1963

Alfred Hitchcock was born 125 years ago, on 13-August-1899. In celebration, over on my other blog, I am rerunning my entries from a blogathon that I participated in way the heck back in 2012:

Monday, March 4, 2024

Tenth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- March 4, 2024


Photoplay, March, 1924

Lea at Silent-ology is hosting the Tenth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon. A blogathon that has lived for ten years is a rare creature. 

For the first annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in vaudeville: The 3-4-5 Keatons.
For the second annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton and the Passing Show of 1917, the show he signed for after leaving vaudeville.
For the third annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster's transition from vaudeville to the movies, Buster Keaton: From Stage to Screen.
For the fourth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in the US Army: Buster Keaton Goes to War.
For the fifth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time making short comedies with Roscoe Arbuckle, Comique: Roscoe, Buster, Al and Luke.
For the sixth annual blogathon I wrote about Buster Keaton's First Feature: The Saphead
For the seveth annual blogathon I wrote about Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel One, a series of films produced during 1920-1921. Buster and his team had a very high batting average.
For the eighth annual blogathon, I started to write about the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel Two
For the ninth annual blogathon, I wrote about the rest of the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel Two and a Half

For the tenth annual blogathon, I have written about the first feature that Buster Keaton had control over, The Three Ages:


Monday, March 13, 2023

Ninth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- March 13, 2023

Film Daily, 11-June-1922

This post is part of the Ninth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon, hosted by Lea at Silent-ology. It is amazingly impressive to me to see a blogathon go on for nine years. 

For the first annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in vaudeville: The 3-4-5 Keatons.
For the second annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton and the Passing Show of 1917, the show he signed for after leaving vaudeville.
For the third annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster's transition from vaudeville to the movies, Buster Keaton: From Stage to Screen.
For the fourth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in the US Army: Buster Keaton Goes to War.
For the fifth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time making short comedies with Roscoe Arbuckle, Comique: Roscoe, Buster, Al and Luke.
For the sixth annual blogathon I wrote about Buster Keaton's First Feature: The Saphead
For the seveth annual blogathon I wrote about Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel One, a series of films produced during 1920-1921. Buster and his team had a very high batting average.
For the eighth annual blogathon, I started to write about the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel Two

For the ninth annual blogathon, I have written about the rest of the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923. Last year I was interrupted by appendicitis:

Monday, March 14, 2022

Eighth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- March 14, 2021

Moving Picture World, 10-September-1921

This post is part of the Eighth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon, hosted by Lea at Silent-ology. 

For the first annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in vaudeville: The 3-4-5 Keatons.
For the second annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton and the Passing Show of 1917, the show he signed for after leaving vaudeville. 
For the third annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster's transition from vaudeville to the movies, Buster Keaton: From Stage to Screen. 
For the fourth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in the US Army: Buster Keaton Goes to War. 
For the fifth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time making short comedies with Roscoe Arbuckle, Comique: Roscoe, Buster, Al and Luke. 
For the sixth annual blogathon I wrote about Buster Keaton's First Feature: The Saphead 
For the seveth annual blogathon I wrote about Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel One, a series of films produced during 1920-1921. Buster and his team had a very high batting average.

For the Eighth Annual Blogathon, I am writing about the Buster Keaton shorts produced for the second season, 1921-1923:

Monday, March 22, 2021

Seventh Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- March 22, 2021

Motion Picture News, 25-December-1920

This post is part of the Seventh Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon, hosted by Lea at Silent-ology. For the first annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in vaudeville: The 3-4-5 Keatons. For the second annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton and the Passing Show of 1917, the show he signed for after leaving vaudeville. For the third annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster's transition from vaudeville to the movies, Buster Keaton: From Stage to Screen.   For the fourth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time in the US Army: Buster Keaton Goes to War. For the fifth annual blogathon, I wrote about Buster Keaton's time making short comedies with Roscoe Arbuckle, Comique: Roscoe, Buster, Al and Luke. For the sixth annual blogathon I wrote about Buster Keaton's First Feature: The Saphead.

My entry for the seventh annual blogathon is on my movies-mostly blog, The Big V Riot Squad:
Buster Keaton's Silent Shorts -- Reel One -- March 22, 2021
https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2021/03/buster-keatons-silent-shorts-reel-one.html

I wrote about Buster Keaton's starring series of silent two reelers. No one ever asks me, but I tell people that this series of comedies and Charlie Chaplin's series for Mutual are the two best series of silent comedy shorts ever made.


Monday, March 9, 2020

Sixth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- March 9, 2020

Indiana Daily Times, November 6, 1920
Lea at Silent-ology is hosting the Sixth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon:
https://silentology.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/the-sixth-annual-buster-keaton-blogathon/

My entry for the blogathon is on my movies-mostly blog, The Big V Riot Squad:
Buster Keaton’s First Feature, The Saphead
https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2020/03/buster-keatons-first-feature-saphead.html

I wrote about Buster Keaton's first feature film and the play(s) that inspired it.


Monday, February 12, 2018

Fourth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- February 12, 2018

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Lea at Silent-ology is hosting the Fourth Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon: https://silentology.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/the-fourth-annual-buster-keaton-blogathon/

My entry for the blogathon is on my movies-mostly blog, The Big V Riot Squad:
Buster Keaton Goes to War:
https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2018/02/buster-keaton-goes-to-war-february-12.html

I write about Buster Keaton's time in the US Army and its effect on his films.

Friday, July 14, 2017

Swashathon 2 -- A Blogathon of Swashbuckling Adventure -- July 14, 2017

Motion Picture News, 15-January-1921
This post is part of  Swashathon 2 -- A Blogathon of Swashbuckling Adventure, hosted by Fritzi at Movies Silently.  I agree with Fritzi that the first Swashathon may have been my favorite blogathon yet.  For the first Swashathon, I wrote about the Robin Hood of the West, the Cisco Kid:
Cisco Kid Was a Friend of Mine
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2015/11/cisco-kid-was-friend-of-mine-november-7.html 

This time, I am writing about Johnston McCulley's Zorro.  I'm going to concentrate on English-language movies and other media.

Like the Cisco Kid, Zorro was unusual because he was a Hispanic hero in American movies, on American television and in American pulp magazines and comic books.  Don Diego de la Vega was a Californio aristocrat.  Californios were people of Spanish or mixed Spanish-native descent in  California during the period after Mexican independence in 1821 and before the US took over in 1846.  Diego takes the secret identity of Zorro (The Fox) to fight against corrupt officials and other villains who oppress the common people.  Zorro made his mark, a letter "Z" formed with three slashes of his sword, as a warning to evildoers and a sign of hope to the oppressed...

Read the rest on my other blog:
https://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/07/zorro-from-douglas-fairbanks-to-antonio.html 

Thursday, June 8, 2017

Judy Garland Blogathon -- June 8, 2017

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This post is part of  the Judy Garland Blogathon hosted by Crystal at In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood (https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-judy-garland-blogathon-has-now-arrived/).  

Some people think Judy Garland's first movie was The Wizard of Oz in 1939.  Some people who know more about old movies think it was The Broadway Melody of 1938 in 1937 (don't ask).  Some movie geeks may think her first movie was her first for M-G-M, a 1936 short subject starring Judy and Deanna Durbin, "Every Sunday," which was rumored to be a contest to see which actress the studio would keep under contract. 

Judy Garland's first movie, made in 1929,  ten years before The Wizard of Oz, was "The Big Revue." Judy, then using her birth name, Frances Gumm, performed with her two older sisters, Suzy and Virginia and the Meglin Kiddies...  

Read the rest on my other blog:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/06/judy-garlands-first-movie-big-revue.html

Monday, March 27, 2017

Early Women Filmmakers Blogathon -- March 27, 2017


Fritzi at Movies Silently (http://moviessilently.com/) is hosting the Early Women Filmmakers Blogathon:
http://moviessilently.com/2017/03/27/the-early-women-filmmakers-blogathon-is-here/

Fritzi says that "It’s time to give these talented women their moment in the sun and the Early Women Filmmakers Blogathon aims to do just that. This is a topic that is dear to my heart and I am just tickled pink to be hosting!"

My entry for the blogathon is on my movies-mostly blog, The Big V Riot Squad:
Dorothy Davenport: Her Life and Career
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/03/dorothy-davenport-her-life-and-career.html

Dorothy Davenport, who was often billed as Mrs Wallace Reid, was an actress, director and screenwriter. 

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Third Annnual Buster Keaton Blogathon -- February 19, 2017


Lea at Silent-ology is hosting the Third Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon:
https://silentology.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/the-third-annual-buster-keaton-blogathon-celebrating-100-years-of-buster/

My entry for the blogathon is on my movies-mostly blog, The Big V Riot Squad:
Buster Keaton: From Stage to Screen
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/02/buster-keaton-from-stage-to-screen.html

 I write about Buster Keaton and his transition from the family act in vaudeville to making movies with Roscoe Arbuckle.

Saturday, November 12, 2016

At the Circus Blogathon -- November 12, 2016

Washington DC Evening Star, 02-August-1913

Lê at Crítica Retrô and Summer from Serendipitous Anachronisms are hosting the At the Circus Blogathon.  It has been a rough week, so our hosts have decided to extend the time of the blogathon.

I decided to write about "Charlie Chaplin and the Flea Circus," based on an unfinished film that he made.  I spent some time explaining flea circuses for the benefit of people who don't know:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2016/11/charlie-chaplin-and-flea-circus.html


Friday, August 5, 2016

Classic Movie History Project Blogathon III -- August 5, 2016

Moving Picture World, 21-December-1918
Fritzi at Movies Silently, Ruth at Silver Screenings and Aurora at Once Upon a Screen are hosting the Classic Movie History Project Blogathon III.  From Fritzi: "While the last two events have been about chronology, this year we are focusing on specific aspects of classic film that are particularly juicy: The System, The People and The Films."

I decided to write about part of the System, Movie Theaters in the Teens (The 1910s, not the 2010s):
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2016/08/movie-theaters-in-teens-august-5-2016.html

Day One (The System) recap:
http://moviessilently.com/2016/08/06/classic-movie-history-project-day-1-recap/

Day Two (The Films) recap:
https://aurorasginjoint.com/2016/08/07/classic-movie-history-project-day-2-the-films/

Day Three (The People) recap:
https://aurorasginjoint.com/2016/08/08/day-3-classic-movie-history-project-the-people/
Day Four (The System) recap:
http://moviessilently.com/2016/08/09/classic-movie-history-project-day-4-recap/
Day Five (The Films) recap:
https://silverscreenings.org/2016/08/09/classic-movie-history-project-day-5-the-films/
Day Six (The People) recap:
https://aurorasginjoint.com/2016/08/10/day-6-classic-movie-history-project-family-business-and-a-foreign-affair/

Friday, July 1, 2016

Olivia de Havilland Centenary Blogathon -- July 1, 2016

Radio Mirror, October, 1937
Crystal at In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Phyllis at Phyllis Loves Classic Movies are hosting the Olivia de Havilland Centenary Blogathon, celebrating the 100th birthday of the beautiful and accomplished Olivia de Havilland.  I hope she is having a wonderful birthday today.

I wrote about Miss De Havilland's career on the radio:
Olivia De Havilland on the Air:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2016/07/olivia-de-haviland-on-air-july-1-2016.html

This page has a list of all my blogathon posts:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/p/blogathons.html

Friday, May 20, 2016

The Classic Movie Ice Cream Social Blogathon -- May 20, 2016

Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography, edited by Albert Allis Hopkins.

Fritzi at Movies Silently is hosting the Classic Movie Ice Cream Social Blogathon   (http://moviessilently.com/2016/05/20/the-classic-movie-ice-cream-social-is-here/).  Fritzi wants to focus "on classic movie-themed cheer. I’m supplying the ice cream (in digital form) and you’ll bring the cheer."

I wrote about my long-time interest in pre-cinema and my attempts to reproduce some of the early moving picture devices:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-illusion-of-motion-may-20-2016.html


Saturday, December 5, 2015

The Try It You’ll Like It! Blogathon -- December 5, 2015

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Fritzi at Movies Silently (http://moviessilently.com/2015/12/05/the-try-it-youll-like-it-blogathon-is-here/) and Janet at Sister Celluloid (http://sistercelluloid.com/2015/12/05/the-try-it-youll-like-it-blogathon-is-here/) are hosting the  Try It You’ll Like It! Blogathon.   They want to put together a list that can be used by anyone to proselytize for classic films.

I chose to write about The Great K&A Train Robbery, a 1926 Tom Mix movie, which has many features that will appeal to historians, railfans, sociologists, horse lovers and people who enjoy a movie full of action and adventure:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2015/12/tom-mix-in-great-k-train-robbery.html

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Swashathon -- November 7, 2015

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Fritzi at Movies Silently is hosting Swashathon -- A Blogathon of Swashbuckling Adventure to honor
the 100th anniversary of the film debut of Douglas Fairbanks.

My entry on my other blog is about the Robin Hood of the West. O Henry's Cisco Kid:
"Cisco Kid Was a Friend of Mine." 



Sunday, August 16, 2015

Anti-Damsel Blogathon -- August 16, 2015

Exhibitor's Trade Review, 30-December-1922.
Fritzi at Movies Silently and Jo at The Last Drive In are hosting the Anti-Damsel Blogathon.  This from Fritzi: "We want bold, brave, smart women who made their mark in all walks of life."  As the proud father of a bold, brave, smart daughter who is striving to make her mark in the world, that sounds like a great idea to me.  

My entry on my other blog is about The Peerless, Fearless Girl, the first serial queen, Pearl White:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-exploits-of-pearl-pearl-white.html

Plunder was her last American serial. 

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Classic Movie History Project Blogathon II -- June 27, 2015


Over at my movie blog, The Big V Riot Squad (http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/), I am participating in the Classic Movie History Project Blogathon II hosted by Fritzi at Movies Silently, Ruth at Silver Screenings and Aurora at Once Upon a Screen.   From Fritzi: "We have divided the history of film from 1880 to 1975 between us. I am your Silent Era host and will be covering 1880-1929. Aurora is our Golden Age host and will be covering 1930-1952. Ruth is our Modern host and will be covering 1953-1975."  I had a great time last year. 

Flicker Alley is sponsoring the blogathon. 





This year my post is "Life of an American Director: Edwin S Porter in 1903."  Porter was an innovative director and I discuss four of the many movies that he released in 1903.  They are "Life of an American Fireman," "The Gay Shoe Clerk," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Great Train Robbery":
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2015/06/life-of-american-director-edwin-s.html