[78-L] The Desert Song

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. bratcher at pdq.net
Mon Mar 23 20:22:25 PDT 2009


At 12:36 PM 3/23/2009, you wrote:

>The Syracuse Cinefest was held here this past Thursday thru Sunday, 
>and it showed the 1929 Warner Brothers "Desert Song." Very enjoyable 
>except for the dated and unintentionally dialogue.
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>It was NOT entirely in two color Technicolor; according to Cinefest 
>program notes only "several" scenes were.
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>Unfortunately our print didn't contain them.
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>Oh, and does anybody remember Leona Anderson, the "World's Worst 
>Singer" and brother of Bronco Billy? She was in the 1915 Chaplin 
>short: "It the Park." I think I identified her.
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>...and thank god it was silent!
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>BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EST) 
>over WCNY-FM (91.3) Syracuse, WUNY (89.5) Utica, WJNY (90.9) 
>Watertown NY, also: www.wcny.org      PO Box 2400, Syracuse NY 
>13220-2400. 315-457-6100
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So are you a film collector (16 millimeter) like myself or did you 
just go to see all the films that were shown?  




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