Colleen Moore -- Flappers of All Ages -- July 26, 2024

Exhibitors Herald, 19-July-1924

Actress Colleen Moore, considered by some to be The Perfect Flapper, models flapper costumes from different eras. Notice that the stone age flapper has an ankle bracelet. Click on the image to see a larger version. 

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Hollywood tennis champ Conway Tearle shows Colleen his racket. Look at that dress.

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Colleen stays in shape by working in her garden.

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Colleen's first husband was producer John McCormick, who was not the Irish tenor of the same name.

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

DW Griffith's Thrilling Romance of Love, Laughter and Tears -- July 25, 2024

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Director DW Griffith's America was an epic about the Revolutionary War. Notice that the quotes come from three members of Calvin Coolidge's cabinet and a senator.

Exhibitors Herald, 26-July-1924

Griffith, one of the founders of United Artists, was leaving to sign a contract with Paramount. 

Photoplay, July, 1924

A view of Griffith directing a scene for "the greatest picture ever made," The Birth of a Nation. It looks as if he had some Civil War veterans visiting.

Bob Newhart, Duke Fakir, John Mayall, Jerry Miller, Shelley Duvall and Martin Mull RIP -- July 24, 2024

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Bob Newhart has died. He was close in age to my father, and his dry humor reminded me of my dad and his brothers from Ohio. I like to think that I carry on the tradition. I watched his television shows and I was happy to see that he appeared in many movies in more recent years.

Duke Fakir, the last surviving member of the original Four Tops, John Mayall of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and Jerry Miller of Moby Grape have died. 

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Shelley Duvall died. I liked her in big parts and small, and even in Popeye. I have not seen The Shining. 

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Martin Mull died in late June. I didn't watch Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman or Fernwood2Night. The humor didn't do much for me. I liked his later work in movies and television. 

Marion Davies in a Charming Scene -- July 23, 2024

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Marion Davies starred in Janice Meredith, an epic film about the American Revolution. E Mason Hopper (great name) directed.

Exhibitors Herald, 12-July-1924

Composer Deems Taylor later appeared as the narrator in Disney's Fantasia.

Exhibitors Herald, 12-July-1924

People get Harrison Ford, Marion Davies' co-star in Janice Meredith, with the more recent Harrison Ford.

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

New York Daily News, 30-July-1924

"It's American to the Core."

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Italian-American artist Edmund (Edmondo) Pizzella was a popular painter. I wonder if the painting still exists.

Exhibitors Herald, 12-July-1924

That is a silly hat.

Rin-Tin-Tin -- GRR--rr GRRR--rr--Woof! Woof! -- July 22, 2024

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Dog star Rin-Tin-Tin goes over the script of Find Your Man, with writer Darryl F Zanuck, who went on to run 20th Century-Fox.

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

This ad calls the movie Get Your Man, but it was released as Find Your Man. 

Clara Bow -- A Jazz-Eyed Flapper -- July 21, 2024

Photoplay, July, 1924

Clara Bow's career was skyrocketing 100 years ago this month, in July 1924. "There is a wistfulness, an ingenuousness about Clara in this picture that is not of the flapper type."

Newark Leader, 25-July-1924

When I wrote about Clara appearing in Grit, I didn't remember that it was based on an unpublished short story by F Scott Fitzgerald.

Indianapolis Times, 26-July-1924

This ad for Daughters of Pleasure has a nice picture of star Marie Prevost, but Clara played an important role as her best friend. William Beaudine directed. BP Schulberg produced. 

Indianapolis Times, 28-July-1924

"But the honors of the production go to Clara Bow as the jazz-eyed flapper."

Kansas City Star, 13-July-1924

Clara was the leading lady in Poisoned Paradise, a story about gamblers. "Robert W Service's famous novel of the exciting present-day life in Paris and Monte Carlo, that is banned by the police of those cities, because it tells too much!" Louis Gasnier directed.

Kansas City Star, 13-July-1924

"The story is laid in Monte Carlo, where Mr Service now resides, and deals so frankly with gambling conditions in that resort that the book has been prohibited publication in the principality of Monaco."

Tacoma Daily Ledger, 08-July-1924

There was some controversy about Clara winking in a scene with her love interest, Kenneth Harlan. She always did it well.

The Third Dimension on the Screen at Last -- July 20, 2024

Anderson Herald, 20-July-1924

Plastigrams were 3-D movies that used a process invented by Frederic Eugene Ives and Jacob Leventhal. The movies were viewed with red- and blue-lensed glasses. Note that Plastigrams were billed above the feature. 

Anderson Herald, 20-July-1924

This article has more details about the contents of the film. "So startling were the effects seen by the spectators that they experienced an entirely new set of thrills when articles seemingly were thrust in their faces from the screen, of when a beautiful girl held a foaming drink out to them, or when taken for a thrilling and dangerous ride in a speeding automobile."

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Customers at Seattle's Coliseum enjoyed Plastigrams. 

Exhibitors Herald, 19-July-1924

Lee De Forest, a pioneer in vacuum tubes and radio, introduced his Phonofilm sound-on-film picture process in 1923. By 1924, his movies were showing in major theaters.

Washington Evening Star, 06-July-1924

De Forest talked about making a talking adaption of Trilby, a popular novel. It was just talk. We will see more about Vitagraph's new color process later. 

Washington Evening Star, 07-July-1924

De Forest had even planned his cast. Arthur Edmund Carew would play Svengali and Hope Hampton would play Trilby.

This ad refers to Phonofilms as "De Forest's Marvelous Radio Talking Pictures." 

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This article carefully does not describe Vitagraph's new color process but says that it will be used for parts of the movie Behold This Woman.

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This fancy ad invites film people to see a demonstration of a new natural color process created by Claude Friese-Greene. Claude Friese-Greene was the son of William Friese-Greene, who claimed that he had invented motion pictures in the 1880s. William went on to try to develop a natural color motion picture process and Claude carried on his father's work.

Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924

Exhibitors Herald, 12-July-1924

In lieu of successful and affordable natural color processes, many films were printed on tinted stock, or shots were tinted after printing.