Not all of my home video projects are initiated by me. I’ve co-produced and released Blu-rays and DVDs for projects who were the brainchild of fellow film accompanists Jon C. Mirsalis and Andrew Earle Simpson, historian-educator-author Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, and my friends at the Library of Congress. I’m pleased to let you know that there’s another such project currently in its crowdfunding stage!
You have an opportunity this month (May 2024) to pledge to a Kickstarter that will restore, score and release a pair of 1929 silent westerns starring Tom Tyler. Both films will be sourced from rare, archival 35mm elements and will be released commercially by Undercrank Productions LLC. The project is being spearheaded by the person behind the Tom Tyler fan site “Aventuras de Tom Tyler” (which is actually in English).
I’m really pleased to be getting some more silent westerns gussied up and made available for fans. These two end-of-the-silent-era westerns have been seen by no one since their release, as far as we can tell, and so your pledge will help bring these “oaters” that have been saved by the Library of Congress and the USC HMH Moving Image Archive to fans and collectors.
Find out more about the project and make your pledge on the Kickstarter page for The Tom Tyler Silent Film Collection.