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In The Fermata he stops time so he can explore the world at leisure; in The Anthologist the narrator brilliantly remarks that "poetry is prose in slow motion".

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2011

From one- and two-reel silent comedies made before 1930, Cinema Anthologist Robert Youngson distills the best drollery of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and provides a welcome cure-all for atrophied funnybones.

From Time Magazine Archive

But more significantly, as Anthologist Alan Lomax says in the opening line of his Folk Songs of North America, "the map sings."

From Time Magazine Archive

Wit less innocence runs amuck in excerpts from the silent classics of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, assembled with hilarious results by Cinema Anthologist Robert Youngson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Witless innocence runs amuck in excerpts from the silent classics of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, assembled with hilarious results by Cinema Anthologist Robert Youngson.

From Time Magazine Archive