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https://blackdiamondcomedies.com/uncategorized/history-in-the-backyard/ Silent films made in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:31:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://blackdiamondcomedies.com/uncategorized/history-in-the-backyard/#comment-7 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:50:45 +0000 http://blackdiamondcomedies.org/?p=373#comment-7 Dear Edward Skuchas, I apologize for taking so long to reply, but I thought you’d be interested in the National Film Preservation Foundation’s release of films recovered from New Zealand and preserved in U.S. archives. Lyman Howe’s “Famous Ride on a Runaway Train” (1921) appears on the NFPF’s DVD “Lost and Found: American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive.” http://www.filmpreservation.org/dvds-and-books/treasures-new-zealand. The NFPF also posted another Howe film on their web site this July: http://www.filmpreservation.org/blog/2015/7/2/happy-independence-day

]]> https://blackdiamondcomedies.com/uncategorized/history-in-the-backyard/#comment-6 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:06:44 +0000 http://blackdiamondcomedies.org/?p=373#comment-6 Nice articles about the industry in the Valley. I had been trying to view a Lyman Howe film that included scenes of the Wilkes Barre & Hazleton Electric Railway. I wonder if it was included in the Runaway train film. I had a reference to a “Cannonball” which they may have called the cars on that line or possibly the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley / The Laurel Line which was WB to Scranton. These were intercity passenger lines that operated from an outside third rail like NY city subways. I spoke with a relative of Lyman Howe that live in New England (MA or CT) I think trying to get more info on the particular film that might still be around. Does your group have access to any of Howe’s films? Thank you. Ed S

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