Best,
Henry Mattoon
National Moving Image Database
The American Film Institute
Los Angeles, CA
213.856.7702
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:49:08 +0000
From: Henry Mattoon <hmattoon@afi65.afionline.org>
To: hkm@crl.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Silent movie question (fwd)
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:24:09 -0500
>Reply-To: eds@geh.org
>Sender: Association of Moving Image Archivists <AMIA-L@LSV.UKY.EDU>
>From: "Edward E. Stratmann" <eds@GEH.ORG>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Silent movie question (fwd)
>To: Multiple recipients of list AMIA-L <AMIA-L@LSV.UKY.EDU>
>
>>The following message was forwarded to the UCLA Film and Television
>>Archive Research and Study Center. Can any AMIA members identify this
>>film? It is definitely not something preserved by UCLA.
>>
>>Charles Hopkins
>>Motion Picture Archivist
>>UCLA Film and Television Archive
>>
>>>---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
>>>Date: 11/13 10:51 AM
>>>Received: 11/13 11:02 AM
>>>From: Gary Handman, ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
>>>Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>>>To: Multiple recipients of list, videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>>>
>>>A weird reference query from left field...Any ideas (I'm stumped)
>>>
>>>Gary Handman
>>>Director
>>>Media Resources Center
>>>Moffitt Library
>>>UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
>>>510-643-8566
>>>ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
>>>
>>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 9:22:12 -0800 (PST)
>>>From: Jim Thompson, UC Riverside (909) 787-3221 <THOMPSON@ucrac1.ucr.edu>
>>>To: ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
>>>Subject: Re: Silent movie question
>>>
>>>Well, some time during the last year AMC ran some silent shorts to
>>>promote (I think it was) their preservation festival. I've been
>>>searching for one of these, but they didn't, as far as I could see,
>>>identify it, and I can't track it down.
>>>
>>>It involved a family home invaded by a character called the "Fuzz-
>>>Faced Fiend," who popped out of hidden doors, rode around on a sort
>>>of skateboard, and generally aggravated the family in many ways.
>>>
>>>Ring any bells?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>----------------- End Forwarded Message -----------------
>>>
>>>
>I think the film you are talking about is a short with Charles Bowers called
>"There It Is". It is part of the George Eastman House Motion Picture
>Collection. If you would like more information, contact Dr. Christopher
>Shannon
>at (716) 271-3361, ext.-375.
>
>Ed Stratmann
>George Eastman House
>