The film historian and accompanist talks to IndieWire about his work as a "missionary" for silent movies and his company's physical media releases of new restorations of two classic Tom Tyler Westerns ...
Infusing the Western genre with comedic elements dates back to the 1910s. Famed silent-era comedians such as Harold Lloyd and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle starred in Western comedy shorts like Two-Gun ...