Showing posts with label Pat Sullivan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pat Sullivan. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Announcing a New Series of 13 Alice Comedies -- May 22, 2024


Film Daily, 19-May-1924

This ad announces "13 One-Reel 'Alice Kid Comedies. A Combination  Cartoon and Live Character Series -- A Distinct Novelty." The Alice Comedies featured a live action little girl interacting with animated animals. They were produced by Walt Disney.

Film Daily, 11-May-1924

Margaret Winkler was a woman who distributed films. This was a rare thing. The movies she handled were most shorts and many were animated. She distributed Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat cartoons, which were very popular. This ad announces that she will also distribute "a New Series of 13 Alice Comedies. Kid Comedies with Cartoons Co-Ordinated Into the Action. A Distinct Novelty."

Film Daily, 11-May-1924

This item describes how Felix had become a fad in Britain, but it seems to have been cut off at the end. We will never learn the conclusion to "Englishmen have no..."

Monday, January 30, 2023

The Two Big-Little Features -- January 30, 2023

Film Daily Yearbook, 1922

Margaret Winkler was a pioneer producer and distributor of animated cartoons. She distributed the Fleischer Brothers' Out of the Inkwell, Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat, and Walt Disney's Alice in Cartoonland series. In 1924, she married Charles Mintz and turned the business over to him. He is mostly remembered today for taking Oswald the Lucky Rabbit away from Disney.

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Helen Keller, Sightless, Laughs at "Shoulder Arms" -- December 15, 2018

Moving Picture World, 21-December-1918
I like this Swedish newspaper ad for Chaplin's Mutuals.

Moving Picture World, 02-November-1918
I also like the Douglas Fairbanks ad mentioned above.

Moving Picture World, 28-December-1918
Essanay was still selling its cut and paste Chaplin movie, "Triple Trouble."

Moving Picture World, 07-December-1918
Chaplin's second release through First National, "Shoulder Arms," was still doing good business.

Film Daily, 01-December-1918
It had run for six weeks, an unusually long time, at the Broadway Theater in New York City.

Motion Picture News, 21-November-1918
Moving Picture World, 07-December-1918
Chaplin had married 16-year-old actress Mildred Harris on 23-October-1918.  Exhibitors quickly jumped on the opportunity to promote her movies.

Moving Picture World, 24-December-1918
Notice that "CHARLIE CHAPLIN" is much larger than any other name, including the title of the movie.

Moving Picture World, 28-December-1918
An ad for a Lois Weber movie starring Mrs Charlie Chaplin.

Moving Picture World, 07-December-1918
"18 out of the 25 theatres on Broadway, New York City have booked Mrs. CHARLIE CHAPLIN."

Moving Picture World, 21-December-1918
Pat Sullivan's studio released a second animated Chaplin film, ""Over the Rhine With Charlie." Otto Messmer did most of the work. "Several exhibitors have booked these one-reel comics to show with Mildred Harris Jewel productions."


Moving Picture World, 14-December-1918
Keeping his nose to the grindstone.

Moving Picture World, 21-December-1918
Chaplin had many visitors at the studio.  Deaf-blind writer Helen Keller came with her companion Anne Sullivan Macy.  One would think a blind person would not get much use out of a silent movie, but Mrs Macy spelled a description of the events into her hand and she enjoyed "Shoulder Arms."

Moving Picture World, 14-December-1918

"CHAPLIN ENTERTAINS ENGLISH BISHOP

"Churchman Outlines His Views on Pictures for the Young and Advocates Morning Performances

"THE motion picture exhibitor occupies a position in his community of an importance equal to that of the local board of education and the teachers in the public schools, in the estimation of the Bishop of Birmingham, England, who visited Charlie Chaplin recently and expressed his opinions and views while noting the comedian's work on his third First National Exhibitors' Circuit release.

"The Bishop of Birmingham has been sent to America by the British Government to study, among other things, the motion picture industry here, particularly the producing branch, and analyze, what the American manufacturers are doing for the attainment of better pictures for the future. He also will make an exhaustive investigation of available facts on the effects of motion pictures in the formation of character in children.

"It was this latter subject which holds the greatest personal interest for the Bishop, and on which he expressed himself at length. As a representative of the British Government, whose reports upon his return to England will be the chief factor in determining the activities of a number of the largest of the British film manufacturers, his views and opinions possess an unusual value and interest for the American exhibitors and producers."




Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Everyone Laughing at "Triple Trouble" and "Triple Trouble's" Troubles -- September 19, 2018

Motion Picture News, 07-September-1918
This ad for "How Charlie Captured the Kaiser" calls it "A side splitting amateur burlesque by Pat Sullivan -- famous cartoonist." Sullivan later produced the Felix the Cat movies.  According to  historians, animator Otto Messmer did all the work.

Moving Picture World, 07-September-1918
Meanwhile back at Essanay, they were still trying to squeeze a buck out of their Chaplin footage. They took pieces of released shorts ("Police") and unreleased and an unfinished feature (Life) and some footage not shot by Chaplin to produce Triple Trouble.

Motion Picture News, 07-September-1918
Theaters like the Rialto in San Francisco reported that Triple Trouble was doing good business.

Motion Picture News, 07-September-1918
The Chicago-area booker had 16 prints in circulation.

Motion Picture News, 07-September-1918
In many cases, the film was held over for a second week.

Motion Picture News, 14-September-1918
A telegram from the Philadelphia exhibitor said that at first he was worried, but the audience response had reassured him.

Motion Picture News, 14-September-1918
"Everyone has been happy."  People were desperate for a new Chaplin movie.

Motion Picture News, 21-September-1918
"Everyone Laughing at 'Triple Trouble' and 'Triple Trouble's Troubles.'"  Try saying that five times real fast.

Motion Picture News, 28-September-1918
A telegram from the Chicago exhibitors says "Tell the other exhibitors to get busy and cash in."

Film Daily, 22-September-1918
"Newspapers Critics Call 'Triple Trouble' Funniest Chaplin Film."  I guess there is no accounting for taste.

Film Daily, 29-September-1918
"Play a Trump and Win."  Bridge was a popular card game back then.

Moving Picture World, 07-September-1918
Chaplin and other stars were making short films to promote sales of Liberty Bonds.

Moving Picture World, 07-September-1918
"Charlie Chaplin has maintained great secrecy as to the nature of the story upon which he is working..."

Moving Picture World, 21-September-1918
First National asked exhibitors to make sure to advertise "The Bond" as a propaganda film, so it would not be confused with regular Chaplin releases.

Moving Picture World, 28-September-1918
Chaplin's next regular release, "Shoulder Arms," would be three reels in length.