The urchins are watching Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Meanwhile, I would like to know where to buy old silent movies on video or DVD. A long time ago when Engineer Husband and I were dating, my roomates and I had a Halloween party. We showed old 16 mm silent films that we borrowed from the library; we used a white sheet on the wall for a screen. One of the movies starred Harold Lloyd; I think maybe it was this one called Haunted Spooks. I would love to own some of the best of these old silent movies–Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd. However, it probably wouldn’t have the same ambience unless we projected the movies onto an old sheet . . .

Quote from actor and director Harold Lloyd:

I’ve found that the bigger the idea under a picture, the more popular it is likely to be. Up to date I count Grandma’s Boy my most popular picture, and why? Not because of thrills, or stunts, or even laughs.
Because under that picture is an idea – that we can be what we think we are, if we have the backbone.

A movie with an idea “under it;” what a novel thought. Oh, and Harold Lloyd married his leading lady, Mildred Davis, and stayed married to her from 1923 when they were wed until her death in 1969. Another almost unthinkable idea in Hollywood these days!