Clutching Hand Hatches Crafty Scheme -- February 17, 2015

Moving Picture World, 06-February-1915

The Perils of Pauline was a big hit in 1914. The 20 chapter serial was not the first movie serial, but it was one of the big ones. It starred Pearl White, the first serial queen. Pathé's next serial was The Exploits of Elaine, starring Pearl White as the alliterative heroine Elaine and Arnold Daly as the scientific detective Craig Kennedy.

I like the layouts of the ads like the one above.  I have some cool ones coming in March. 

Moving Picture World, 06-February-1915

The Clutching Hand makes Elaine and her dog sick. 

Motography, 06-February-1915

Scientific detective Craig Kennedy cures Elaine and the collie by opening the windows.  Wow. 

Moving Picture World, 13-February-1915

"The Biggest and Best Serial Yet." 

Moving Picture World, 13-February-1915

"Miss White has a genius when it comes to playing before the camera.  She really acts; she has full command of her expression and seems to the spectator to be filled with the emotion she portrays.  What is more she takes a remarkably good picture." 

Motography, 13-February-1915

The items at the end include one about the sculptures at the Selig Zoo. Rescued from a junkyard, they now stand in the Los Angeles Zoo. 

Moving Picture World, 20-February-1915

I particularly like the design of this ad. 

Moving Picture World, 20-February-1915

"In this number there is less of science than in the previous ones." 

Motography, 20-February-1915

 

"The fight which takes place between Craig Kennedy andone of the emmissaries of the Clutching Hand at the top of a church steeple "

 

Moving Picture World, 27-February-1915

I like this one, too.  "They Know!"

 

Motography, 27-February-1915



"Vocaphone Saves Elaine From Harm."  The Vocaphone appears to have been an early version of the speakerphone. 

Motography, 27-February-1915

"It was generally agreed that 'The Exploits of Elaine' was some picture." 

The Exploits of Elaine Begins -- January 20, 2015

Moving Picture World, 02-January-1915

The Perils of Pauline was a big hit in 1914. The 20 chapter serial was not the first movie serial, but it was one of the big ones. It starred Pearl White, the first serial queen. Pathé's next serial was The Exploits of Elaine, starring Pearl White as the alliterative heroine Elaine and Arnold Daly as the scientific detective Craig Kennedy.

I like the image on the right-hand page.  Be sure to click on the images to see larger versions. 
"A Powerful and Wealthy
Capitalist Struck Down
With No One Near: A Most
Modern Safe Opened by
a New and Terrifying Force:
The Super Criminal
has Arrived!
In this Serial is Revealed
Not Merely the Science
of the Present But of
The Future as Well!"

Moving Picture World, 02-January-1915

"The stories will be published as issued in the great Hearst newspapers..." 

Omaha Daily Bee, 01-January-1915

"Begin at the beginning.  Get every word, every phrase, every thought." The Omaha Daily Bee promised its readers could follow the story in the Sunday Bee. 

Moving Picture World, 02-January-1915

"Following on the success of 'The Perils of Pauline," the new Pathe-Hearst Serial, "The Exploits of Elain" from the pen of Arthur B. Reeve and picturized by Chas. L. Goddard, bids fair to surpass in popularity its predecessor, judging from the briskness with which the first two-reel installment, entitled 'The Clutched Hand,' strikes the imagination."

Motography, 02-January-1915

"The exploits will give her a chance to return to the realm of acting and after weeks of being the athletic Pauline, Miss White is pleased with the change." 

Moving Picture World, 09-January-1915



Motography, 09-January-1915

"one of the greatest and most complete serials ever launched." 

Motography, 09-January-1915

Motography, 16-January-1915

"Twilight sleep" has features of truth serum. 

Motography, 30-January-1915

"The Clutching Hand examines the safe." 

High Point Review, 21-January-1915

This ad from the High Point North Carolina Review touts "The Greatest Serial Story of the Age!"  "A 25 cent subscription to the The Review will carry you thru the entire story."  A box warms people "that a notorious criminal is at large in this city." 

Motography, 23-January-1915

I wonder how much if any of this article is true. 

The Perils of Pauline was a big hit in 1914. The 20 chapter serial was not the first movie serial, but it was one of the big ones. It starred Pearl White, the first serial queen. Pathé's next serial was The Exploits of Elaine, starring Pearl White as the alliterative heroine Elaine and Arnold Daly as the scientific detective Craig Kennedy.

Moving Picture World, 23-January-1915

I like the images of the Clutching Hand and the frozen safe. 

Moving Picture World, 23-January-1915

"Too much praise cannot be given to the clean-cut methods employed, and the smoothness and consistency of the action." 

Moving Picture World, 23-January-1915

Brothers Leopold and Theodore Wharton directed Elaine. 

Motography, 23-January-1915

"Oxyacetylene Flame Used to Save Elaine" -- That's a great title. 

Moving Picture World, 30-January-1915

I notice that the style of the images has changed this week, from photographs to line drawings.  "Don't dally.  Don't delay." 

Motography, 30-January-1915

"Kennedy shows them the seismograph concealed in the panel is amazed to discover by its record that someone has entered his rooms."