Showing posts with label Roy Aiken. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Triangle's Auspicious Opening -- October 28, 2015

Moving Picture World, 02-October-1915
"By this time you have heard of the bang with which the initial Triangle plays went over at the Knickerbocker Theater last Thursday."

Moving Picture World, 09-October-1915

Quotes from six New York newspapers.

Moving Picture World, 09-October-1915

The opening program included Douglas Fairbanks' film debut, The Lamb.  "A new star has appeared in the motion picture constellation."

Moving Picture World, 16-October-1915
Newspaper comments on the second week's program.

Moving Picture World, 23-October-1915
Moving Picture World, 30-October-1915

Monday, September 28, 2015

Triangle Film Completes Plans -- September 28, 2015

Motography, 04-September-1915

The Triangle Film Corporation was founded by Harry and Roy Aitken to distribute films produced by three of the leading men in Hollywood, Mack Sennett, Thomas Ince and DW Griffith.  Each was supposed to supervise (produce) a movie for each weekly program.  Douglas Fairbanks made his film debut in The Lamb.  The captions are wrong.  The Coward was an Ince production and The Lamb was a Griffith. 

Motography, 04-September-1915
The opening program, at New York's Knickerbocker Theater on September 18, was to feature three leading ladies, Seena Owen, Margaret Gibson and Mabel Normand.  That is a nice picture of Mabel. 

Moving Picture World, 04-September-1915
"Two five-reel dramas and two two-reel Keystones will be released each week."  "My Valet," the first Sennett film for Triangle, was a four-reeler. 
Motography, 11-September-1915
Thomas Ince replaced The Coward with The Iron Strain, starring Dustin Farnum, in the initial program.  I like the photos of the three principals. 

Motography, 11-September-1915
Triangle planned to open "four model theaters in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston."

Motography, 18-September-1915

Moving Picture World, 25-September-1915