Finds: January 19, 2014

The blog Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill! looks at Andrew Leavold's documentary The Search for Weng Weng, about the Filipino dwarf actor (2'9") who starred in a series of Eighties spy spoofs:

http://diedangerdiediekill.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-search-for-weng-weng-australia-2013.html

Here is Leavold's own blog, Bamboo Gods and Bionic Boys, "An evolving history of genre filmmaking in the Philippines":

http://bamboogodsandbionicboys.blogspot.com/
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The fine blog Television Obscurities rediscovers a television comedy in five-minute episodes from the year 1949, Ruthie on the Telephone, which aired on CBS every night except Wednesday (and later Sunday) from 7:55 to 8:00 P.M. Unusual!

http://www.tvobscurities.com/spotlight/ruthie-on-the-telephone/