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| 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.
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| 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."
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| Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924 |
Customers at Seattle's Coliseum enjoyed Plastigrams.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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| Exhibitors Herald, 19-July-1924Exhibitors Herald, 19-July-1924 |
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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| Chicago Tribune, 14-July-1924Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924 |
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.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 05-July-1924 |
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| 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.
